drumking, chickamauga, crappie, 10/08/09, Labman

[FishNews]

Norman (Labman) and I thought that it must be a holiday with all the anglers that were out today. We couldn't even get on any of our spots. Don't tell me that everyone else is retired too. <br /><br />Actually that was a bit exaggerated, but it did seem that there were more than usual boaters out for a Thursday. We saw everyone but EricM. Looked for him too. Our crappie count was 56 including a nice 14.25 inch TARP for Norman. Beautiful fish. I caught my namesake, brown looking smallmouth (drum) in the 4-5 pound range. A catfish, a couple of bass and 4 or 5 bluegills rounded out our morning. Beautiful autumn day. Bright sunshine, very little wind, good current and hungry fish. All fish released today.<br /><br />We caught our all our fish on bg shads and slab slayers in various colors. I didn't try a panfish assassin today. Probably should have. I would have taken more pics, but my batteries gave out and I wasn't carrying any spares. I was riding with Norman today and all my spare batteries are in my boat. Hal and I are going striper fishing in the morning. Yoo Hoo! If that fails, we will crappie fish. emoBig emoGeezer