04-01-2012, 09:00 AM
Hit the water at 10 a.m. I am again looking for a monster crappie. Brush pile in <br />10 foot of water, 1/16 oz. jig with Outlaw Special. Third cast, I stick a beast. I am <br />working around the boat with net in tow. When the crappie surfaced, my heart stopped.<br />had 3 pound potential, a true freak. When it saw the net, it made a hard,drag taking run.<br />Did it 3 times. What a relief, its in the net. Damn, what a crappie. Out come my digital<br />scales, 2 lbs. 14 ozs, 16 inches, another close call. I knew 2lbs. 14 oz., was leading big <br />fish at Hamiltons. So I loaded up and took it to be weighed. It was 2. 13oz., on their scale.<br />Their scale is crap, but all fish are weighed on same scale, so the results are fair. I use my <br />scale weight at 2 lbs. 14 ozs. Brought her back and released her to do work. Got rained on<br />hard, then David showed up to fish. We caught fish on a few spots, then the bottom fell out.<br />We got under a dock and rode it out for about an hour. We caught 5 good crappie on that dock<br />while waiting. Never caught a keeper there before. We made a long run to go to where I caught <br />some the day before. A dock in 10 feet of water, caught 6 or 7 keepers here. Then moved on to<br />another dock in the area. As soon as our jigs hit the water, we were assaulted.Nice male fish had<br />moved in and were aggressive. We caught over 20 keepers here. Pink Pearl by BG, is a great<br />second jig color to restart crappie. I got another tarp here, a male. Exactly 14 inch. We finished <br />with 48 keeper sized crappie, kept 30 to give to an upcoming fish fry.