04-26-2009, 09:00 AM
What a crappie day !! emoBig
started off as a scouting mission to check out a few places with the side imager and ended up finding a mother load of crappie emoDance <br /><br />put in around 8am at charleston ramp and heading down to the blythe ferry area to see if could find some sunken cars i had been told about ... didnt find em .. fished the bluff areas around there with nothing to show before <br />heading into the goose pond shallows where i did pick up 4 keepers in about 3 fow around a brush pile with a bg bleeding shad. one had what looked like a nasty tumor on his side so i tossed him back. <br /><br />tried trolling with one of those little wally marshall cranks but only ended up with drum for that effort emoDoh <br /><br />this was an area i had planned on fishing for the crappie tournament ,but due to a bad trim solenoid i couldnt make it that far upriver, with only 4 11-12&quot; fish it wouldnt have helped me much anyway ...<br /><br />back to more scouting and seeing neat stuff on the humminbird . small schools of fish here and there bait fish everywhere then the bottom drops way off in an unexpected spot in front of this dock and it has fish <br />absolutely STACKED in it . <br /><br />started throwing the bg bleeding shad (tail dipped of course) and anywhere from a 5- 10 count was getting a fish... smaller fish high bigger fish low ..the end of the dock was 19 fow with it being 12 fow up in the dock (had to retrieve a bad cast)<br /> within 45 min i had filled my limit and started culling .. it was nearly a fish on every cast emoDance i kept culling up until i ran out of the bg shad at about 2pm . i ended up putting well over 70 fish in the boat <br />with several just shy of the 14&quot; mark (13 3/4 and a half emoBig ) my best 7 went 10.6lbs with the biggest pushing 2lbs emoDance <br /><br />with the wind picking up and the merry go wake makers out in force it was time to go anyway (not to mention a call from the wife beginning with &quot;YOUR CHILDREN&quot; ) as with any trip to the water (i am like ericm this way ) something bad did have to happen ..... some how during the rough ride back to the hiwassee (where it smoothed out a bunch) my brand new $20 bullet ball cap came dislodged from between my life jacket and my belly emoScratch should have made me mad but with a good catching day like today it will take more than loosing a good hat to upset me emoBig
started off as a scouting mission to check out a few places with the side imager and ended up finding a mother load of crappie emoDance <br /><br />put in around 8am at charleston ramp and heading down to the blythe ferry area to see if could find some sunken cars i had been told about ... didnt find em .. fished the bluff areas around there with nothing to show before <br />heading into the goose pond shallows where i did pick up 4 keepers in about 3 fow around a brush pile with a bg bleeding shad. one had what looked like a nasty tumor on his side so i tossed him back. <br /><br />tried trolling with one of those little wally marshall cranks but only ended up with drum for that effort emoDoh <br /><br />this was an area i had planned on fishing for the crappie tournament ,but due to a bad trim solenoid i couldnt make it that far upriver, with only 4 11-12&quot; fish it wouldnt have helped me much anyway ...<br /><br />back to more scouting and seeing neat stuff on the humminbird . small schools of fish here and there bait fish everywhere then the bottom drops way off in an unexpected spot in front of this dock and it has fish <br />absolutely STACKED in it . <br /><br />started throwing the bg bleeding shad (tail dipped of course) and anywhere from a 5- 10 count was getting a fish... smaller fish high bigger fish low ..the end of the dock was 19 fow with it being 12 fow up in the dock (had to retrieve a bad cast)<br /> within 45 min i had filled my limit and started culling .. it was nearly a fish on every cast emoDance i kept culling up until i ran out of the bg shad at about 2pm . i ended up putting well over 70 fish in the boat <br />with several just shy of the 14&quot; mark (13 3/4 and a half emoBig ) my best 7 went 10.6lbs with the biggest pushing 2lbs emoDance <br /><br />with the wind picking up and the merry go wake makers out in force it was time to go anyway (not to mention a call from the wife beginning with &quot;YOUR CHILDREN&quot; ) as with any trip to the water (i am like ericm this way ) something bad did have to happen ..... some how during the rough ride back to the hiwassee (where it smoothed out a bunch) my brand new $20 bullet ball cap came dislodged from between my life jacket and my belly emoScratch should have made me mad but with a good catching day like today it will take more than loosing a good hat to upset me emoBig