05-04-2009, 03:46 AM
We launched the boat at 10:00. Only the third time I have fished off a boat. We set up with bottom bouncers and rattle traps and trolled toward freeway bay. After two and a half hours we finally found some crappie. Caught one on a crawler harness and another with a 2" green twisty tail grub. And then......... our trolling battery went dead. (electric trolling motors suck) With the wind we couldn't stay on them so we headed back. The big one is 12" and the smaller one almost 10. Not too bad for my first fish from a boat. We saw tons of loner fish (not in big groups) about 12 to 16' down but no bites from them. From what I could tell our gear wasn't even down that far is there a trick to getting the rattle traps and crawler harnesses down there? We had 1oz. bottom bouncers and nothing on the rattle traps. I really don't know what I'm doing out there I learned what I know from reading posts on here. Its a huge reservior and I feel pretty lost out there trying to find fish.
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