06-13-2009, 09:00 AM
Friday and Hal's day off and that usually means a crappie trip in the offing. This morning was no exception. We started very early in order to beat the heat, water chiggers, and late AM cruisers. We fished from 6:00 AM til 12:00 noon. It was our 2nd best trip together as we landed 110 crappie, 3 bass and 1 tiny bluegill that is lucky that we weren't catfishing. emoBig
<br /><br />Lake temp was around 81 degrees about mid-morning. I didn&#39;t look at noon. Calm water, slight currrent, and perfect conditions for summer crappie fishing. Basically I just repeated what Fishing Machine and I did yesterday. I knew that Terry was going out this morning too, so I went in the opposite direction from him and finally saw him just before we quit. He was schooling a young teenager on the art of crappie angling. At noon just as we were getting ready to quit, the current suddenly picked up to a very good flow. It was 13,000 cfs early and most of the morning, I think. I haven&#39;t checked the TVA data yet.<br /><br />The fish were deep and mostly on a 14 plus count today. I used both 1/16 and 1/32 oz jigs. Crystal shad that I have doctored up. See yesterday&#39;s report and look at the colors of the jigs. We tried a couple of different colors, but the fish would just shut off when we did. Put the blue/chartreuse back on and start catching fish. Sometimes it is good to know what they will not hit as much as what they will.<br /><br />All fish yesterday and today were released to grow even bigger. emoBig emoGeezer
<br /><br />Lake temp was around 81 degrees about mid-morning. I didn&#39;t look at noon. Calm water, slight currrent, and perfect conditions for summer crappie fishing. Basically I just repeated what Fishing Machine and I did yesterday. I knew that Terry was going out this morning too, so I went in the opposite direction from him and finally saw him just before we quit. He was schooling a young teenager on the art of crappie angling. At noon just as we were getting ready to quit, the current suddenly picked up to a very good flow. It was 13,000 cfs early and most of the morning, I think. I haven&#39;t checked the TVA data yet.<br /><br />The fish were deep and mostly on a 14 plus count today. I used both 1/16 and 1/32 oz jigs. Crystal shad that I have doctored up. See yesterday&#39;s report and look at the colors of the jigs. We tried a couple of different colors, but the fish would just shut off when we did. Put the blue/chartreuse back on and start catching fish. Sometimes it is good to know what they will not hit as much as what they will.<br /><br />All fish yesterday and today were released to grow even bigger. emoBig emoGeezer