Thread: Congrats Bill and Jerry

Great job guys. I didn't think y'all where tourney fishing together anymore?

Originally Posted by coolerfull

Great job guys. I didn't think y'all where tourney fishing together anymore?

Jerry and I are only fishing the Crappie Masters together now. He just doesn't have the time to do the MCC and the other tourneys. I've got another partner for those events and the new American Crappie Trail. It's tough knowing he won't be there for those tourneys, but I understand how busy he is. Guiding, tying jigs and Critters, and a sporting goods store to run, etc. He retired only to go to work. Lol

He'll be missed at those other tourneys!!!!

Well he retired to only do things he enjoys now I'm sure! Great job to you guys again.

Originally Posted by coolerfull

Well he retired to only do things he enjoys now I'm sure! Great job to you guys again.

I agree. Anything to do with fishing is his passion. It isn't work if you enjoy what you're doing.

Congratulations Steve, Bill, and Jerry for ya'lls finish. Sounds like s tough few days fishing. Being able to adapt to the changing conditions is signs of the seasoned fisherman.

Brm what did y'all do to catch better fish the second day.

Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter

Congratulations Steve, Bill, and Jerry for ya'lls finish. Sounds like s tough few days fishing. Being able to adapt to the changing conditions is signs of the seasoned fisherman.

Brm what did y'all do to catch better fish the second day.

We moved. Lol

We had really good fish located in 5 spots, and eaters in a few others. We caught almost 14lbs on Wednesday in one area in about 2 hours fishing. We didn't fish Thursday because the wind pounded the bank we fished on. We started in that hole Friday morning and only caught one fish by noon because the water had been muddied by the wind on Thursday and even tho the fish were still there, we couldn't get them to bite. We hit our other spots, and by 1:00 we only had 3 fish. We decided to hail Marry and fish a spot we'd caught decent eaters to try and catch 7. At 1:30 we dropped our poles and caught 4 fish in about 15 minutes. Wound up catching two more for a weight of 10.25 on day one and 44th place.

Day two we decided to catch our 7 in that area and we started there. First fish we caught was 2.33. We had figured out that the fish had moved to the shallows with the cooler water temps from two cold fronts last week so we moved up from where we started and caught 12.76 on day two to move up to 14th place. We caught EVERY fish on a Minner Critter that Jerry had custom tied for this tourney. It was a prototype design that smoked em. Only had 6 Critters that color or it might have been different. We missed a Hawg with 20 minutes to go that would have put us in the top 7-8, but everyone misses a few. That's fishing. The Good LORD blessed us with those 4 keepers on day one to keep us in the hunt. HE blessed us again on day two with a pig with 45 minutes to go, and tried to give us another with 20 minutes to go. As stated, we missed that opportunity tho.

Good job men! Ya'll may be getting the hang of this crappie fishin.

Great story almost as good as being there watching ya

Congratulations to all of you who fished. Good stuff.

Chris

Congratulations for sure! Great job!