Crane Cr.

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Finally made it out to Crane Cr. again yesterday on the hunt for big crappies. My two trips this spring I couldn't even catch one there... The fishing was slow and the fish were quite small.. I caught probably around 30 in the 6 -8" range.. Only kept 3 and the nice one in the pic was by far the biggest.. It was a great weather day until a brutal windstorm came in and stuck around till almost dark.. We pulled the boat to shore and waited for 2 hours to let the wind calm.. It didn't calm so I decided to brave the waves.. Bad idea. I killed the motor and got blown into the rocks... With the boat crashing into the rocks I started the motor and bang, hit the rocks and blew my shear pin..With no choice limped back to my cove with the trolling motor about 1/2 mile from the ramp. Now I really had to wait for calm water...2 more hours and finally the wind calmed.. Nearly dark I set out back to the ramp with the electric motor... about 5 minutes in I noticed I was taking on major water..I had pumped all the splash out with my bilge pump before I left shore..??I'm thinking.. Did I lose my plug? Did the rocks knock a hole in the boat? I'm now running the bilge pump constantly and bailing with a bucket while running the trolling motor on 5 praying my battery would get me to the ramp. I made it to the ramp and trailered my plugless waterlogged boat in the nick of time.. All for some little crappies[fishon]<img src="http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/data/500/20150621_175427.jpg" /><img src="http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/data/500/20150621_162524.jpg" />
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