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  1. 05-10-2006, 09:35 AM #1
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    I fished yesterday evening from 4:30 until dark. I had the whole lake to myself. I fished with minnows, jigs, rooster tails and roadrunners. I caught 3 on minnows and 1 one a jig, nothing on the rest. I finally tried something different. I started trolling a bitsy pond bug on one pole and a roadrunner on another. I almost immediately picked up a nice crappie on the bug. Did it again and picked up another so I tied on a second one in place of the RR. I ended up with 9 nice crappie and 1 dink on the bitsy bugs in just over an hour. I was still catching them when I had to quit because it got dark. I also caught 2 white bass, 1 LM, 1 cat, and 3 bream. I ended up having a fun outing. I came home with 13 crappie and put the other fish back. I'm pretty anxious to go back and try it again. I would have never tried the bugs had I not read a post in the main forum a couple of weeks ago about someone else using them.
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  2. 05-10-2006, 11:59 AM #2
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    It's always a good feeling to try something new and succeed. I tried to search for the lure that you were talking about in your post, but no luck. Could you give me a link? Also, you said that you were trolling. Was that holding a pole in each hand? What depth?
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    Hi Ceb....I picked them up at Wally world....they just call them a bitsy minnow.....I just stuck a pole out each side of the boat then put my motor in gear and idled along....the speed seemed better that way than using the TM. Depth didn't really seem to matter as I was picking them up in 8-25 ft. of water. If I got much shallower they started bumping the bottom. I used a white and Char. w/red throat and a green and black with red throat one. The green and black was the best by about 3 to 1. One thing I found was they are not tuned very well and had to be slightly adjusted to make them run straight. Also when casted they seem to foul up with themselves, hook hung up on the lip or the line so I started dropping them over the side, made sure they were running correctly, then let the line out while trolling. You can really feel a vibration through the line when they are running correctly, which surprised me with such a small crank bait. If you give it a try let me know how you do.....
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    It is fun tring new ideas, and when they work wow I do th esame thing for time to time. I have to break out of my old habits.


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