11-23-2010, 10:00 AM
<br /> gene made the trip down here to fish with me on the upper end of the chick today and it couldn&#39;t have turned out much better. <br /> i was worried that i wouldn&#39;t be much of a guide but the crappie made me look pretty good, even the panhandler we ran into today gave us both a 
emoTongue <br /> <br /> started out at about 0700 to a pretty dense fog a chilly air temps but finally made to our first spot , a partially submerged log in about 15 fow, where gene promptly put it on me with 3 11&amp;quot; plus fish on 3 cast with a <br /> BG moglo outlaw special on a 1/32 jig. didnt take long for me to switch to what he was using and try to catch up. after catching quite a few keepers there we went to another spot only to find others on it . i scaned it anyway to show <br /> gene a few things about the spot before heading to a bluff wall known to hold a bunch of short fish. i told him we could get some numbers there but not any real good keepers. well he proved me WRONG. <br /> first cast there and he hauls in a nice 12&amp;quot; slab while i played in a 8&amp;quot; .THEN he pulls in a 13&amp;quot; while i pull in another 8&amp;quot; emoDoh about that time our masked panhandler turns up begging for food. <br /> after gene tossed him a bite or 2 of his chicken sandwich he looked ready to jump in the boat with us if i got close enough. so i made sure to stay far enough away . left there and went down to possum creek where we picked up a few<br /> solid keepers on blow downs and vertical structure. while we were there we ran into capt. hazmat and fished around with him a bit before heading out to some main lake docks. <br /> i redeemed myself from earlier by catching almost all the fish at one dock while gene hauled a lot of water there , even though i gave him some of the LFT chart glo lures i was using emoPoke once it slowed down for me there we went to some off shore stuff where gene put me in my place with the lure i gave him emoDoh <br /><br /> not only did he out fish me on this hard to find/fish middle of nowhere structure he pulled in his PB black crappie at 15&amp;quot; and 2lbs emoThumbsup <br /> by the time we left there we had 25 over 11&amp;quot; in the boat . when we headed back up river about 1pm or so the wind had picked up and made for a bouncy ride back to a spot i wanted to fish earlier . <br /> gene showed my up there to by quickly putting 2 more over 11&amp;quot; in the boat THEN had the nerve to catch another tarp at 14-1/2&amp;quot; still using the lure I GAVE HIM emoDoh <br /> we ended the day about 3:30pm with 45 total crappie 30 over 11&amp;quot; ,10 that were under 11&amp;quot; and only 5 under 10&amp;quot; <br /> the count ranged from 6-8 on the shallower 15fow stuff to 18 in the 20fow&#43; stuff <br /> while we never got into a real hot bite it was pretty consistent all day long <br /> congrats gene on a new PB crappie ...... ON A LURE I GAVE YOU emoBig <br /> total weight for the day was 31-1/2 lbs for the 30 keepers and 12-3/4 for the best 10 <br /> not a bad day at all emoBig <br />
emoTongue <br /> <br /> started out at about 0700 to a pretty dense fog a chilly air temps but finally made to our first spot , a partially submerged log in about 15 fow, where gene promptly put it on me with 3 11&amp;quot; plus fish on 3 cast with a <br /> BG moglo outlaw special on a 1/32 jig. didnt take long for me to switch to what he was using and try to catch up. after catching quite a few keepers there we went to another spot only to find others on it . i scaned it anyway to show <br /> gene a few things about the spot before heading to a bluff wall known to hold a bunch of short fish. i told him we could get some numbers there but not any real good keepers. well he proved me WRONG. <br /> first cast there and he hauls in a nice 12&amp;quot; slab while i played in a 8&amp;quot; .THEN he pulls in a 13&amp;quot; while i pull in another 8&amp;quot; emoDoh about that time our masked panhandler turns up begging for food. <br /> after gene tossed him a bite or 2 of his chicken sandwich he looked ready to jump in the boat with us if i got close enough. so i made sure to stay far enough away . left there and went down to possum creek where we picked up a few<br /> solid keepers on blow downs and vertical structure. while we were there we ran into capt. hazmat and fished around with him a bit before heading out to some main lake docks. <br /> i redeemed myself from earlier by catching almost all the fish at one dock while gene hauled a lot of water there , even though i gave him some of the LFT chart glo lures i was using emoPoke once it slowed down for me there we went to some off shore stuff where gene put me in my place with the lure i gave him emoDoh <br /><br /> not only did he out fish me on this hard to find/fish middle of nowhere structure he pulled in his PB black crappie at 15&amp;quot; and 2lbs emoThumbsup <br /> by the time we left there we had 25 over 11&amp;quot; in the boat . when we headed back up river about 1pm or so the wind had picked up and made for a bouncy ride back to a spot i wanted to fish earlier . <br /> gene showed my up there to by quickly putting 2 more over 11&amp;quot; in the boat THEN had the nerve to catch another tarp at 14-1/2&amp;quot; still using the lure I GAVE HIM emoDoh <br /> we ended the day about 3:30pm with 45 total crappie 30 over 11&amp;quot; ,10 that were under 11&amp;quot; and only 5 under 10&amp;quot; <br /> the count ranged from 6-8 on the shallower 15fow stuff to 18 in the 20fow&#43; stuff <br /> while we never got into a real hot bite it was pretty consistent all day long <br /> congrats gene on a new PB crappie ...... ON A LURE I GAVE YOU emoBig <br /> total weight for the day was 31-1/2 lbs for the 30 keepers and 12-3/4 for the best 10 <br /> not a bad day at all emoBig <br />