Thread: Helped with the overpopulation !

Originally Posted by CrappiePro

Nice mess Greg, I'm bringing my 5 year Old Grand son to Nimrod Tues... he is very excited to reduce Nimrods population also. Iv'e been telling him since he was three when your five years old Gramp PA will take you out to do some serious fishing. He called me up yesterday and said PAPA I'm five years old and im ready to do some serious fishing. LOL

Nimrod is definitely the place to take a youngin , it's full of fish , he should have a blast, good luck CP

Originally Posted by Slab Junkie

Fancy Seats, I was out there too. I think I idled right past you and mentioned to my buddy "that looks like a Excel Viper". We were in a camo Xpress with a 70hp Yamaha four stroke. Crappie Greg, I think I remember seeing you guys too. Looks like ya'll caught a good mess. Our luck wasn't as good. We caught plenty, probably 50 or 60 but threw a bunch back due to small size. We were vertical jigging 8-10 foot down in brush piles that are 12-15 feet deep. One particular pile I was catching them just about every drop for about 15 minutes and throwing them back just as fast as I could get them unhooked, just too small. Oh well, catching small ones is still a whole lot more fun than catching nothing. We still brought home enough to stink up a skillet.

Slab junkie , I did see you guys and do appreciate ya'll slowing down to an idle when you passed, me and my partner both commented on the courtesy unlike the bassers that were out today blowing by doing 70 waking us out!!!!

CrappieKeeper and myself ended up with a nice mess and 3 big cats. We were trying where we did well last weekend and the shad and fish just were not there. Talked to a couple guys double spiderrigging out the front of the boat. They said it was their first time over here. They normally fish Blue Mountain but it's being drained. Might be where a lot of them are coming from. Loaded the boat and talked to two guys taking out in a nice Ranger. I thought I recognized them but couldn't place 'em. After they left I told CrappieKeeper I think that that was Jason and Jim Westerberg the team from Conway I believe that won the Crappiemasters Arkansas State Championship this year over at Lake Dardanelle.
Talked to them a minute and they said that the little ones and the cats give them fits too. Very nice guys.
We will be back out there in the morning trying something different for sure.
See y'all on the water!!

Originally Posted by slabbandit

CrappieKeeper and myself ended up with a nice mess and 3 big cats. We were trying where we did well last weekend and the shad and fish just were not there. Talked to a couple guys double spiderrigging out the front of the boat. They said it was their first time over here. They normally fish Blue Mountain but it's being drained. Might be where a lot of them are coming from. Loaded the boat and talked to two guys taking out in a nice Ranger. I thought I recognized them but couldn't place 'em. After they left I told CrappieKeeper I think that that was Jason and Jim Westerberg the team from Conway I believe that won the Crappiemasters Arkansas State Championship this year over at Lake Dardanelle.
Talked to them a minute and they said that the little ones and the cats give them fits too. Very nice guys.
We will be back out there in the morning trying something different for sure.
See y'all on the water!!

Looks Like the assault is taking place... You guys are doing a great job. I know Conway and his partners have been out there limiting out every trip to. Can't wait for Monday Tuesday so I can help with the second attack wave. LOL... Always nice to see the AR State Champions on the lake too. Hope Jim and Jason caught a good mess. Super Nice Father and Son team.

Hey Slabbandit it was nice meeting you today at the boat launch!! Those catfish sure gave us a run for our money today!! But best of all the crappie were bitting very well even know they were on the smaller side it was alot of fun to catch over 100 in a day! its probably been months since we have caught that many in one trip! I ended up cleaning 30 nice crappie today and a few smaller crappie that had swallowed the hook and were a little weak so we kept them so they were not just floating around. That was our first trip to Nimrod since I was a kid and it seemed to be a great place to fish still, I think I will try and make the fall crappie camp this year, it should be a blast if there still bitting like they were today!! Yall dont catch em all I think I may come back over next Saturday and give them another try!
Good Fishing to all! Jason

Thanks Jason, It was nice talking to you today. That's one nice rig you guys have! I was at the Dardanelle weigh-in but I just couldn't remember where I had seen you. Congratulations on winning the Arkansas State Championship!! Thumbs Up

Dave