drumking, Chickamauga, Crappie, 9/09/14, cuonthelake

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I had the great pleasure of fishing with my favorite and best student ever today. Cuonthelake invited me out on her boat today for about 6 hours of piscatorial pursuit. We were in search of the elusive keeper sized crappie. I am one proud Papa, today. You talk about putting on a clinic, that girl put on a clinic today. If I had tail feathers, I would spread them like a peacock because that is how proud I am of her fishing knowledge and the willingness to learn new techniques. <br /><br />We fished main river docks that were deep. No shallow docks for us today. No off shore structure either. Lots of current in the river making it hard to present lures properly. All I can say is that Bobby Garland rules the water. We fished with Slab Slayers in various colors, but the key to our fishing success today was that we found out early on that the fish didn't want a 1/16 oz jig. Too fast for their preference today. We had to down size to 1/32 oz BG Slab Slayers and every fish that we caught was deep. We even scrapped some off the bottom. <br /><br />I know that this is going to seem like a fishing tale because we haven't had any good reports lately, but we managed to catch 50 crappie with 40 of them being legal sized keeper crappie. The last keeper today was caught by none other than my guide today and it was a nice 12.75 inch White crappie. All the rest were black crappie. Water temp basically was 83 degrees most every place that we went. Wind began to get up a little later in the day, but by that time, we were both tired and ready to come in.<br /><br />Candi, thanks for taking the old Drumking fishing today. This is the best day that I have had since May. Looking forward to many more good fishing days like today. Thank you for posting all the pics. Your camera much better than mine.<br /><br /> emoBig emoGeezer<br /><br />Oops! I forgot to tell you about the other fish that we caught. 2 bluegills, 2 yellow bass, 1 spotted bass, 1 channel catfish, and 1 white bass. I had a big fish pull off after a 30 second fight. Drum. That's my call, although it had catfish slime on the line. emoUp