Fishing Forum

Finally got out for a day of Crappie chasin' today. Picked a cold day to do it too, :o It was 19* when I put in at Chester Frost<br />this AM at 7:30 but I was 1st so no ice on the ramp to deal with.<br /><br />NOTE----- I learned a trick back many years ago when we used to duck hunt on the Mississippi River. When you put<br />your boat in the water and pull the trailer back out, stop just when the trailer clears the water and let the water<br />drain off the trailer before you pull on back up the ramp. Most of the water will go back in the lake instead of getting<br />the ramp wet and that turning into ice so the next guy trying to put in won't slide sideways and wreck his rig!!!<br /><br />Anyway on with the days report;<br />It was cold but the fishing was good 'till about 11:00 then they turned the switch off. I could see plenty fish on the <br />Lowrance but they didn't want to play, I tried several colors but nothing turned them on so I had 34 at 11:00<br />and could only add 3 more by 3:30 emoScratch I did keep 12 to clean for a good fish fry but didn't catch any <br />really big ones. I think the biggest was a little over 12 inches.<br />No pictures, when it's that cold and the wind is blowing a picture is out of the question. I didn't even take the camera<br />out with me today. May not have worked anyway in that cold. It did warm up in the afternoon and if you could get<br />out of the wind it was nice.<br /><br />Bait of the day seemed to be Patriot, Bluegrass and Outlaw Special, didn't seem to make much difference, all produced<br />about the same amount. Most fish caught in 15 to 20 FOW and near the bottom.<br /><br />One of the most interesting things of the day was that I only saw one boat from the time I put in until 10:30 or so.<br />I guess I was the only dummy out in the cold this morning, emoBig emoGeezer