05-09-2011, 09:00 AM
David and I put in at 9:15 at WT ramp. We stayed on the main river all day. We worked docks with<br />1/32 oz. jigs with BG baby shad in Ghastly Minnow and Outlaw Special. These crappie are suspending<br />at a 3-6 count in 6-18 fow. I caught 1 crappie over 14 in. and we caught a pile of 12-13 inchers. We<br />caught crappie almost everywhere we went. On on dock in 6 fow. I stick a fish that runs around a post,<br /> peeling line like crazy, I pull in tight where I reach my rod around the post. The fish runs out and down<br />the bank and back under the dock again, I finialy get him back out, where he runs 100 yards up the slew<br />with me following with the trolling motor. I have 4 lb. test, so I am at his mercy. It feels like a drum, but it<br />had no quit. We finally got a peek, it was a big carp. After several attempts David gets the net under him.<br />It was 32 inches long and wasted 20 minutes, But it was the principle of you hit my jig, and I will get will try<br />to get you in the boat. I thought we would hit the 100 keeper mark, but only caught 2 crappie in our last<br />1 1/2 hour. We finished with 93 keeper crappie and learned to start carrying water in the cooler. We quit at<br />7:00 and released all fish.