Thread: The A Team...

Looks like you got it figured out. Are those proven colors or are you just trying stuff to see what will work? Be sure to let us know the results. I need to try some of that on the Coosa but its hard to stop doing what is working to try something new.

There are 2 or 3 good Gville colors in that picture.

All 6 lures caught crappie today. The pinks, whites and sun perch all did pretty evenly, with the yellow/orange/black catching much fewer. Total of 23 crappie (2 blacks), 14 blue catfish, 1 bass and about a dozen little hybrids. I've not caught that many blue cats in my life, much less in a single trip. They were also hitting every color I had out. Sadly, Sun Perch (my favorite lure) took one for the team and was lost to a viscious hook up with what I can only assume was a big catfish. It turned the rod holder around until it hit the one next to it, and by the time I had the rod out of the holder and could get my hands on the Terrova remote to stop the motor it had yanked so hard it snapped it off (10 lb test) like it was nothing. Later, another catfish pulled the snap open and it took off with one of my white lures. Jeezus, gonna need a part time job to afford to lose crankbaits.

Anyway, I started in Browns Creek, but my usual haunt was littered with grass everywhere; not only floating grass but tons of balls of suspended grass that looked like massive schools of huge fish on the electronics. Needless to say, we struggled for the 5 or 6 fish we got there until it just wasn't worth the headache and we moved on. Caught several singles here and there, but then moved up river quite a ways and hit a spot where we started catching doubles and singles on successive runs over the same 1/8 mile stretch......along with all of the blue cats.

There was a little science to the layout of the lures above. The 3 on the left were on right side poles and the 3 on the right were on the left side poles, and I had the distances staggered such that one of the pink lures was furthest out from the boat and at 75 ft back, the other closest to the side of the boat and 50 ft back. Same for the whites, and the last 2 colors were just wild cards. Didn't take long to zero in on the lures being anywhere from 85' to 110' back to catch consistently. The one thing I noticed today was Guntersville was pulling twice the amount of water it normally has been during the week. Once again, didn't keep any of the fish so no pics, although got one of my daughter with her first blue cat.

Good catch! The grass can be a pain sometimes!

Good haul. Thanks for the info about pulling cranks

PU that is an awesome report. Glad you had fun with the kid. Looking forward to giving Wheeler a try tomorrow.

You had a good day! I didn't fare so well pulling cranks today.

Awesome report and a great trip PU. Got a few other colors I plan to run today and check it out. Just trying to figure out this crankbait stuff. Mad cow was missing from the line up, what happened?