02-13-2014, 10:00 AM
Today was a slow day for me and after a quote and checking in, the weather just never came to Ooltewah like they thought it might. It spit snow a couple times but nothing even worth mentioning. They say the second round will be a lot more. Since I have been on a really good crappie bite in all the cold weather &quot;Biofisher I&quot; had told me he would love to put a mess or two in his freezer if he could. Biofisher is a Biology Teacher and today with the schools all closed I saw our chance to wet a hook together. I called him and sure enough he was home. He also lives over here near me so meeting up at the wolf to launch the boat was no issue.<br /><br />Got on the water and the wind was not too bad, waves not too bad and even the cold was not too bad. emoThumbsup Started a milk run to find the crappie and it did not take long. Our first stop we had six in the boat in the first ten minutes. emoTongue The only issue was size today. Where as the other day they all seemed to be keepers except a couple, today we had about a two to one ratio of shorts to keepers. We hit docks, bluffs, points and ditches. Put about 60 in the boat. We kept 19 good size crappie for Bio to take home. emoHungry No tarps today but I think we had a couple 13 inchers. We were out for 4 hours so the catching was pretty strong. Just like before the crappie were caught on 4 lb test with a 1/32 nd jig head. I used tubes in blue/chartreuse and red/chartreuse. Bio did the same but used a little crappie assassin type bait in several different colors he tried. <br /><br />We had a really good time for such a cold winter day. Thanks for the company Gary. emoToast