12-11-2011, 10:00 AM
Worried about possible fog, Sport and I drove to Soddy to put in at Holly Circle<br />boat ramp, and do the crappie tournament. What a great ramp and parking area!<br />Wish Wolftever ramp was that nice. Most of the big crappie are going to be near deep<br />water. That is where Sport and I fished, action was slow to start. We needed 10 big ones.<br />Sport catches our first good crappie, 1 1/2 lber. I follow with a pig tarp #69, 14 3/8 in.,<br />2.02 lb. Next cast I get smashed again, I&#39;m hollering at Sport to get the net. Another pig,<br />an identical twin at that, Tarp#70, 14 3/8 in, 2.02 lb. What a great start! Wind got stiff and colder,<br />as the day went. We ran a lot of water, went deep again, where Sport caught 3 good ones in a row,<br />to give us 10 nice ones. We culled 5 more times, to get a solid stringer of 10. Finished at 12:30,<br />to go to weigh-in. I wasn&#39;t sure we had a big enough sack to win, there were a couple of heavy hitters<br />in the field we had to get past. We had 14.90 lbs., 2lbs. in the clear, and big fish at 2.02 lbs. for <br />the win. Thanks Jerry for putting on a great tourney! The pig twins and their friends were released.