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Thanks Ron and great timing. 
12/14/24
Bluegill. 6.0
Crappie. 13.5
Bear River

Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

(12-15-2024, 10:47 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

Thanks Curt, On the ice contest I've gotten 13"ers just about every year, but it usually takes me fishing all winter to find one... One year I got a 15"er, 14 and 13 the same trip... but that was after 20 trips that winter... This was unusual to find the big one early, it's usually just before the ice clears for the year... but I think it's warmed enough that I'm done on this skiff of ice for awhile anyway.. I hope this isn't the melt for this winter... but at 2.5", it doesn't take much deteriorating to end the fishing... Maybe this will get me to get my boat cleaned out and ready to fish Willard before it freezes... That would be fun, and I should hit Bear Lake too, but too many places to go and not enough time to get to all of them... Still doing a lot of putting up shelves, cabinets and furniture, not to mention cleaning and organizing after all those construction months..  Hope that I'll get a chance to fish next weekend, but being right before Christmas and my lack of doing anything shopping wise yet, I'll probably need to do a little shopping for my wife... Thanks for noticing the fish... later Jeff

(12-16-2024, 05:34 AM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: [ -> ]

(12-15-2024, 10:47 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]Great crappie Jeff, have you ever caught one that big from BR?

Thanks Curt, On the ice contest I've gotten 13"ers just about every year, but it usually takes me fishing all winter to find one... One year I got a 15"er, 14 and 13 the same trip... but that was after 20 trips that winter... This was unusual to find the big one early, it's usually just before the ice clears for the year... but I think it's warmed enough that I'm done on this skiff of ice for awhile anyway.. I hope this isn't the melt for this winter... but at 2.5", it doesn't take much deteriorating to end the fishing... Maybe this will get me to get my boat cleaned out and ready to fish Willard before it freezes... That would be fun, and I should hit Bear Lake too, but too many places to go and not enough time to get to all of them... Still doing a lot of putting up shelves, cabinets and furniture, not to mention cleaning and organizing after all those construction months..  Hope that I'll get a chance to fish next weekend, but being right before Christmas and my lack of doing anything shopping wise yet, I'll probably need to do a little shopping for my wife... Thanks for noticing the fish... later Jeff

Wow I haven't heard of anyone catching crappie that big in a very long time, but guess where we have caught them that big? It was back in the days of Mike4cobra, when he use to be on the site, before he got married.

(12-14-2024, 03:19 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Ron and great timing. 
12/14/24
Bluegill. 6.0
Crappie. 13.5
Bear River

Great start! That crappie is going to be tough to beat for the panfish category. 

Bluegill - 6
Crappie - 13.5

Thanks Ron, I was pretty excited to see that fish come through the hole... Curt, is that what happened to Mike... I wondered where he had gone... Thanks guys... Jeff

12-21-24
Bear River
Gill. 7.0”

Sorry about no label, the ice was so thin and scary I left my rod box in the car. Didn’t have the label when the fish was on. Jeff

Sheesh, that's a purty good crappie to start with. Going to be chasing that one for most of the contest. Congrats

Thanks Shawn, the way the ice is so far this year, contest might be over soon so might have a chance, but with the big perch in Willard, it will be beat... if we get ice... I'm hoping for ice so it can get beat... Wish it would at least get 5 degrees colder, then I think the ice will start to build a little, right now I think it's going down hill... Hope we don't have a repeat of last year, we need a good ice season this year... Hoping to be able to join you on a pond thick enough to hold two of us... If not maybe we'll have to take the boat to Willard.. Later Jeff

1-20-25
Newton
Perch 7.5”

1-24-25
Hyrum
Perch 8.0
Bow 16.5

1-25-25
Cutler
Green sunfish 5.0”

getting a good collection of panfish.
I'll give you one on the no label for the 'gill. I held off thinking you would have a bigger one by now with the banner to replace it.
bluegill - 7
Yellow perch - 8
Rainbow trout - 16.5
Green sunfish - 5

Thank you, I need to find another gill, but somehow I've found a drought in my spot that started good early, it's gone dry now, hardly any fish showing on the 360 at all.. Took forever to get enough ice back and now there's ice, the fish have moved out... figures... Later J

2-1-25
Hyrum
Perch 13”

(02-01-2025, 05:34 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: [ -> ]2-1-25
Hyrum
Perch 13”

Great perch Jeff and it came from Hyrum, that is even more impressive, congrats.

Thanks Curt, that was shocking to me. It was a freakin barren desert there today, I moved 8-9 times and couldn’t see anything other than a few mid column bows from time to time. So I decided to just stay put and try to figure out my electronics. When the big red mark moved in and grabbed it just like that. That was the only fish and hit of the whole morning, better to be lucky than good I always hope for. Thanks for the congrats. Jeff

(02-01-2025, 08:32 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Curt, that was shocking to me. It was a freakin barren desert there today, I moved 8-9 times and couldn’t see anything other than a few mid column bows from time to time. So I decided to just stay put and try to figure out my electronics. When the big red mark moved in and grabbed it just like that. That was the only fish and hit of the whole morning, better to be lucky than good I always hope for. Thanks for the congrats. Jeff

Wow, I was hoping you caught more than that one, bummer that overall the catching was so slow.

(02-01-2025, 11:49 PM)wiperhunter2 Wrote: [ -> ]

(02-01-2025, 08:32 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Curt, that was shocking to me. It was a freakin barren desert there today, I moved 8-9 times and couldn’t see anything other than a few mid column bows from time to time. So I decided to just stay put and try to figure out my electronics. When the big red mark moved in and grabbed it just like that. That was the only fish and hit of the whole morning, better to be lucky than good I always hope for. Thanks for the congrats. Jeff

Wow, I was hoping you caught more than that one, bummer that overall the catching was so slow.

As I was getting ready to go, a guy and his young kids, must have found the fish, they were pulling in dinks one after another about 50 feet from where I had started looking for them today... I probably just went east when I should have went west today... J