Conway in July...

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Well...at least that's what it felt like out there today. There wasn't much breeze at all over the entire day, and it was HOT on the lake. I have my official first sunburn of the year to prove it.:D I got out there at about 9:30am and started jiggin' a visible brushpile. Within a couple of minutes, I caught a nice 1lb 13oz hawg. Couldn't catch another but had a few bites. As the sun rose higher under the very clear skies (supposed to be cloudy today ), I decided that the skinny water wasn't going to work today. I then started slo-trollin' the creek back up towards the pond. Didn't pick any up in the creek. Once I got to the pond, I found a pretty good school of crappie, but only the smaller ones were biting. As of noon or so, I had caught about 25 fish but only 6 or 7 keepers. Meet up with Helmslaw and he brought me a sonic burger (appreciate the food...Goocher used to bring some food every now and then...but not any more:D). We headed back into the pond to find those smaller crappie that I was catching earlier, and they had picked back up pretty good since I had left. We caught lots of fish, but probably had 1 keeper for every 2 throwbacks. Probably caught a total of 70 crappie including throwbacks. We came out a little before dark with I'm guessing around 30 crappie. And just so you know Gooch, Helmslaw has put a bid in for my new fishing partner. He even ran that ol' whore of a motor without killing it.

The fish were suspended at about 5' over 10-12' of water. A few nice crappie hit a jig without a minnow, but most wanted the rosies on a bare hook. Water temp was in the low 60s, but I don't think the fish are in the creek yet. Maybe the bigger ones are in the creek, but just not biting as well???

Hey, Helmslaw, get a pic of the catch if you can. I can't believe I didn't take any pics out on the water...oh well, we'll just have to make a repeat showing. The one pic that I did get was of my first true double on the same pole at the same time. Actually I got two doubles today...what are the chances of that. The second double was a pair of 7" dinks, so it wasn't nearly as exciting.

One keeper and one dink caught on the multiple hook rig...Although the dink came off the hook while I was trying to get the camera out.