Thread: Yet another spot .....

I am blessed with multiple decent crappie locations within less than 20 minutes of my workplace , s
I REALLY enjoy ketchn crappie off the bank , in a boat is also good , but there is something about them long casts and far away hooksets and tedious cranking them back to ya ,with you saying prayers it won't come undone before it hits your hand moments that drive me to do it .....
In this episode of ketchn off the bank , I used the EXACT same set up EXCEPT for my float .....
had to put on a heavier balsa wood version to get that final 15 or 20 extra feet out there range .
the majority of the fish were past mid river away on the off side of the channel . Got bit first cast and lost it on top , was for sure a crappie .
River fish always seem to have way more steam than lake fish , not sure exactly why , but they for sure fight WAY harder than lake fish in these parts. Many crappie both black and white will take to the air in the river on the fight and run like a bass too. Makes for splendid good time on your lunch break no doubt, but often leads to fish coming undone.
This particular location is a predominantly black crappie spot , the one yesterday was a predominantly white crappie spot . I only ketched black crappie this visit EXCEPT for yet another intrusion in to my game plan of a ding dong river bass !
managed another 30 plus fish on my lunchbreak and the last fish was the one that burned into my brain . The fish hit like a crappie and had the feel of a real brute crappie , my face was smiling and I was cranking like I meant it , the more I cranked the bigger my smile was getting , pretty sure it was an upper class river crappie .....BUT , I am sad say about half way in the wormed turned and it decided it wanted to give it a real go and it turned away and gave me a little drag pull of about 6 foot or so of line and POOF it was gone !
all the rest of the crappie were typical 10 inch average river sized black pancake looking schooling fish .
anyway there ya have it ....MO KABOOM
about 5 foot or so deep under a float , a mixture of lay the float up bites and a few taking it slowly under bites as well . That same ribbon tail orange plastic on that same orange jighead
the ole HD cherrywood beat em down right well ....and then this ....
let me just caution you about how much individual results could possibly vary
p.s. YES my ole oilfield camo crappie.com com ballcap was in on the trip too

Originally Posted by BobC

Great walk along and story. I would take that bass any day. Maybe you had a cat on that one take….i agree fast moving water fish fight extra hard.
Bob

its rare for a kitty cat to come lose sir , they might break me off , but I have not lost many of them ....
my guess is a crappie , but it might have been a river bass ,,,,,both of those throw hooks like crazy ....