Muskrat, Chickamauga, crappie, 5-3-15, Debbie - Printable Version +- Fishing Forum (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum) +-- Forum: Tennessee Fishing Forum (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=384) +--- Forum: Tennessee Fishing General (https://bigfishtackle.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=56) +--- Thread: Muskrat, Chickamauga, crappie, 5-3-15, Debbie (/showthread.php?tid=932145)

Muskrat, Chickamauga, crappie, 5-3-15, Debbie - FishNews - 05-05-2015 A crappie fishing trip in the pontoon Sunday with a late start around 12:30. Boats everywhere ! We checked to see if the crappie were showing up at some of our favorite post spawn spots... and they weren't. We went back to a good 'ol reliable spot lately...and they were ! We put a lot of big crappie in the boat and we're still catching quite a few "very" dark male crappie. Some nice 12.5 - 13 inch crappie with good weight. We caught around 20 crappie and all but one was an "easy" keeper. We've been adding some minnows to our jig arsenal the last couple of trips. Most of the fish were in 10 feet but caught a few deeper in and around brushpiles and on a point. I kept 5 for dinner. emoHungry emoTongue <br /><br />Deb lost a near 5-pound bass a foot from the net when her 4-pound test line touched a rail on the pontoon. Just the extra tension against the line snapped it. We couldn't believe it. She was really depressed about it but she started catching some big crappie and that got her mind off of it for awhile. We catch a lot of fish in the pontoon but we lose a few also. That's fishin' I guess...