drumking, chickamauga, crappie, 5/20/09, J R Baker

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My brother-in-law and I fished for crappie this morning from about 8:15 until nearly noon. J R wanted some crappie for his freezer and we managed to catch a few. The fishing conditions were terrible because of the wind. It was whitecapping the river by the time we started. The wind was chilly out of the NW, sunny skies and high water flow. We landed 11 keepers, 2 spotted bass and about 5 to 1 throwbacks crappie for a total of 50-60 fish. I had to stand on the trolling motor all morning just to stay close to the docks that we were fishing. It was nearly impossible to keep JR into the fish without banging the boat into the docks that we fished and I'm not going to abuse someone's dock or my little tracker. We did go into a marina to get out of the wind. Accomplished that, but to say, there were no crappie in there. They wanted to be where it was wild and woolly, I guess. emoBig <br /><br />We caught our fish on bg shads, ringer stingers, and crappie stingers. Ringer stingers and crappie stingers are different lures, just in case someone is wondering about stingers.<br /><br />I think maybe that I'll go downriver in the morning and aggravate some of Mrwiskers pet fish or see if any of the redbreast sunnies are still active. I haven't decided yet for sure. I will be contacting someone to see if they are available on short notice. emoGeezer <br /><br />I wonder if Jane will let FA out 2 times in one week? emoUp emoUp