Thread: Catching your limit how many times?

Been crappie fishing for almost a year. Never even been close - but - getting better at it every trip

I've only been that lucky once, 3 or 4 years ago in April on Smith Lake. I actually caught my 30th fish and kept fishing for a while longer just to catch #31 to say I threw one back. Haha! On a side note, there were several times that April when I would have several helpers and take home 40 or 50 after fishing Fridays, Saturdays, and a little while on Sundays. Good times. The best I've done up there since may be 20 in a trip and I have a big ol' total of ZERO this year.

Have caught my limit a lot of times,but a limit of good keeper fish only a couple of times.

I've had a fantastic year and probably got 40 limits since december (best year ever by far). First trip this year was mid december and I got a limit 12 days in a row. Found a cove that was just slap full of crappie and I was the only one I seen crappie fishing every day. Took someone with me 5 times this year and we got 60 crappie each time. Have just been really lucky for some reason this year. For example one time this year i fished from sunrise to 11:00 in 4 different places and didnt have one fish and the wind started howling so i decided to give up. On the way to the launch passed a cove that had a small protected patch so I decided give it a try. Before I could get all my rods out I had 5 crappie in the boat and caught a limit in a little over an hour.
To me this year the secret has been to move if not catching them good or at all. If I trolled an area once and didnt catch anything i moved. Was surprised many times this year how one spot that seem to be same type area I just left and was close by would have a ton of fish in it. One other thing that surprised me this year was that most people will say if you find the shad in dec thru mar you will find the crappie and that is probably mostly true, but most of my fish this year I caught more fish if i stayed a good distance away from the big schools of shad.

I could never count how many times I have caught my limit, too many to even imagine, however this year was the worst year ever and only caught a limit a few times.

Have caught several limits but hardly ever keep a limit anymore. Too much work after the fun...

...ain't that the truth.

Have caught limit many times but like Scott I hardly ever keep that many to clean.