06-04-2009, 09:00 AM
After a wonderful, restful weekend with my daughter, SIL, and grandkids in Louisiana, I&#39;m finally back at it. I had yardwork to do before I could start back after the crappie. I noticed that several had good crappie reports while I was away. WTG, guys. All that had success. Crappie fishing should be good for the rest of the year, if you can stand the heat and don&#39;t care to fish deep.<br /><br />I fished from 7:30 until 11:00 AM this morning. I managed to land 26 crappie, 1 tiny lm bass, 1 yellow bass, and 1 channel cat. Where is EricM when you need him? emoBig
Nearly all the crappie were deep (over 20&#39
and I caught some good ones too. I had a few throwbacks and a few keepers that didn&#39;t quite measure up to my 11-12&quot; slot limit. My brother-in-law helped me yesterday put a belt back on my mower, so I kept a few crappie to help him out. I caught my fish on a S/P BG shad that I had worked on with spike-it. I took a Q-tip and painted down the back of it with blue, and then dipped the tail and belly with chartreuse. It worked for nearly every fish that I caught today. <br /><br />I met Richard Britt (can&#39;t remember his screen name) up at the bluff at Sequoia and we had a nice talk. I gave him one of the 3 bg shads that I had painted up. I saw him catch a crappie on it just after he started back fishing. I also met Catfishone with a friend up there too. They stopped by and chatted for a couple of minutes. Catfish was going to teach his friend how to shoot docks. I caught some fish on docks, but most of them came on bluffs or bluff like structures and deep. Fishing with 1/16oz jigheads. Water temp was 77 when I started and 80.3 at 11:00 AM. <br /><br />It is good to be back home and after the crappie. emoBig emoGeezer
Nearly all the crappie were deep (over 20&#39 and I caught some good ones too. I had a few throwbacks and a few keepers that didn&#39;t quite measure up to my 11-12&quot; slot limit. My brother-in-law helped me yesterday put a belt back on my mower, so I kept a few crappie to help him out. I caught my fish on a S/P BG shad that I had worked on with spike-it. I took a Q-tip and painted down the back of it with blue, and then dipped the tail and belly with chartreuse. It worked for nearly every fish that I caught today. <br /><br />I met Richard Britt (can&#39;t remember his screen name) up at the bluff at Sequoia and we had a nice talk. I gave him one of the 3 bg shads that I had painted up. I saw him catch a crappie on it just after he started back fishing. I also met Catfishone with a friend up there too. They stopped by and chatted for a couple of minutes. Catfish was going to teach his friend how to shoot docks. I caught some fish on docks, but most of them came on bluffs or bluff like structures and deep. Fishing with 1/16oz jigheads. Water temp was 77 when I started and 80.3 at 11:00 AM. <br /><br />It is good to be back home and after the crappie. emoBig emoGeezer