Thread: Had a Good Day

Contratulations and WTG Bill!!! That was a great finish! I thought I saw you from a distance on Grenada today and I started to call but got busy and didn't....guess it was an impostor, LOL!

Great showing Bill, hope you can repeat that performance two weeks in a row! Oh, and it weren't me that luvpt saw at Grenada yesterday, I was in Arkansas. Grenada was week before last for me.

Congratulations!!! We hope you and your partner have many more chances to practice your fishing holding techniques.

I'd like to see a pic of your road runner rigs if it's not a secret!

Better looking partner than Meatgetter! Need to get him one of those "scare shirts" so he will look professional. Good job on tournament, just a hair from winning!

Congratulations on the great finish and thanks for the fishing info too.

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

On the water fishing the Mississippi Crappie.Com Fruit Jar championship tourney on Enid Lake. The weather turned out perfect and the fish were biting for everyone.

My partner Heath Strickland and I finished 2nd with 12.48. Congrats to crappie guru John Harrison and his partner Jeremy Aldridge for their win with 13.08.

We caught all of our fish power trolling Southern Pro Umbrella tubes with a Southern Pro Hot Grub curly tail on the back of them. We call it a Rattle Snake rig.

We pushed 3oz weights with two 1/4oz road runners on the rigs with the Southern Pro tubes and grubs at .7 to 1.1 mph. We did harm a few minners too.

We caught over 50 keepers on the day, not to mention the shorts we caught, and were throwing back everything under 14" at 9:30-10 o'clock. It was a great day to fish!!!!


I'm getting better on the 4 fish hold, but my partner hasn't got the 2 fish hold down yet.


A special Thank You to Jigflanger for coming down and taking pictures of everyone at the tourney. Nice job Gary!!!

good job guys. looks like yore partner knows how to hold that envelope with the check

Originally Posted by stoagpawpaw

I'd like to see a pic of your road runner rigs if it's not a secret!

Most are running Capps and Coleman style home tied rigs with a 1/4oz road runner tied to the bottom with a 1.5 to 2 oz and some 3 oz egg sinkers about 12 to 14" above the road runner looped 5 times with string through egg sink. The top is hooked to a number 7 to 10 size cross line swivel. A 8 to 12" lead off of top cross line swivel with an 1/8oz roadrunner. There is a trick to tieing them up to change egg sinkers quick in tournament situations but I'm sworn to secrecy to not share that one! lol!

Google power trolling! Lots of good info on the technique out there. Rigs are discussed in several articles. Very popular in MS post spawn when fish are larhargic or in summer months when fish are deeper.

I have been tieing up 2oz rigs tonight with 1/4 oz roadrunners on bottom and 1/8 oz roadrunners on top preparing for this weekend. I have different weights tied up for different depths, wind conditions and speed needed to trigger the bite!

This may not be what he had tied up but lots of folks tie these up for power trolling!