Thread: Caught Over 5000 Crappie In 2021: My Personal Best

After doing some thinking I would be lucky to catch more than 500 this year. I may have to keep count next year out of curiosity

@VaCrappieMan

Here is a pic of my bass raider 10e.

Nice rig

Originally Posted by Skippa Chippa

Outstanding, that's some fine catching. I've had some good years pulling cranks and use to keep a log of my catch and a self imposed size limit of nuthing under 12". I would fish @ 3 days a week and my best yr was a little over 700 that got to take the ride home. Like you I had some nonbelivers and would drop of a box with 15-20 fish at their house and that would change their mind, as far as the haters they can kiss my back side. Now for the joke does your wife have a sister that likes to clean fish. HaHa Outstanding

If my wife had a sister she would be worth a million dollars in our fishing community....

My wife has filleted thousands of fish for me over the last 30 years. She is super fast and you could read a newspaper threw the dorsal aspect when she is done. Very little waste.

But she's on to my praise...lol Shes tells me I am good at taking out the trash, so I do that well

Originally Posted by yobuck

Suggestion,
If your gonna be posting all those pics of somebody holding up a fish, at least get some attractive young lady to hold the fish. lol

My wife would be jelly if that ever happened.

You're pulling all those fish over the side of a 10' plastic boat??!!

Where is the Livescope? What about the boxes and boxes of the latest newfangled lures in every color imaginable? Where are the power poles, the 200hp motor, the $70,000 bass boat that I've been led to believe is absolutely critical to the sport of crappie fishing??? Surely all those advertisers didn't LIE to me????


Seriously though, thank you for this post. What a great reminder that you can catch them like crazy with minimal equipment. 5,000 crappie on 3 different colors of tube jigs blows my mind.

Originally Posted by bigdoug03

You're pulling all those fish over the side of a 10' plastic boat??!!

Where is the Livescope? What about the boxes and boxes of the latest newfangled lures in every color imaginable? Where are the power poles, the 200hp motor, the $70,000 bass boat that I've been led to believe is absolutely critical to the sport of crappie fishing??? Surely all those advertisers didn't LIE to me????


Seriously though, thank you for this post. What a great reminder that you can catch them like crazy with minimal equipment. 5,000 crappie on 3 different colors of tube jigs blows my mind.

You make a good point Doug. I used to have big powerful boats with the latest everything. And I got so tired of all the maintenance and expense. So did my wife.

So one day I sold it all and just shore fished for a couple of years. And hitched rides with others.

Then the weeds from all the zebra muscles came to North East Ohio, and I was once again needing to get out just past the shoreline.

So I convinced my wife I needed a boat again. But she said it all must be under $5000.00. That was our fishing budget.

So after a lot of research, I got me a fat mans kayak (plastic bath tub boat) with a good trolling motor (when the gps is working).

It will not flip, so I feel safe even when big wakes come by me. I can go a whopping 2.5 MPH.

A simple depth finder with water temperature and good knowledge of crappie behavior is all that I had to get me by now.

However, an amazing thing happened. Because I go so slow, I have found an incredible amount of habitat I did not know about on our lakes.

Going 50 mph to get to honey holes, I would miss so much. But, because of its speed limitations I decided to slow troll (.32 mph) all the lakes, and would find group after group of crappie that other boaters would just blow by.

Because the boat is small, I take a tiny tacklebox and a 5 lb dumbbell' as an anchor. If I keep fish I use a sams club bag with a frozen bottle to keep them.

I use 2 poles, and keep a few extra batteries for night stalking.

The boat is so quite I can sneak right over a brushpile at night and jig 3 to 4 feet next to / below the boat over the pile. I have had crappie hit the jig just inches from my sidewall at night.

My stern light is close to the water and attracts the crappie right to me. The baitfish and crappie follow me around. Some nights I get plum warn out after 6 hours of non stop action.

Fish only spook when I drop a large fish on the plastic floor.

This little boat opened up a new world to me. A quite one, under the stars of heaven. Morning sunrise with no other boats around is my favorite. If the coffee stays warm its even better

The pic below is from this morning.

Going this route has made me a better fisherman. I am more patient. Less stressed. I can launch anywhere, even in 6 inches of water. And my lithium battery lasts for days.

BigD

Hey Big D
Wife said she will fly me(or make me walk) to your place if you will give me lessons!!!
Also congratulations to your wife. From the picture she does a very good job on the cleaning.
Chuck

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