• Smoked'em

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    Slab_Slammer83
    Published on 12-10-2015 04:31 AM
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    Literally and figuratively. Headed out bright and early on Sunday morning at around 630am. Was met with a nice steady ENE weekend wind that seems to be relatively constant as of late. Fish seemed to prefer RR w/ minnows opposed to the minnow-less jigs, also the minnow tipped moon jigs (orange) worked well. Naked jigs caught some fish, but RR seemed to be the ticket for the big dogs. During the week I made some modifications to my stern rod holders. I ran a comprehensive spread consisting of 15 rods, just from the back of the boat. Future stern rod modifications will allow for 20 in the back; when that happens I’ll get a picture up. I fished from 9-16 fow however the best bite was in 12-14 fow. Fished from 7-10:30. Great day on the water, my son caught the largest fish which was around 14”, which registered 1.5lb on the Berkley scale. Kept 16. My youngest didn’t fish but definitely gets in on the photo action.

    The most exciting catch of the day occurred near mid morning. I look over at the far rod to see the rod doubled over, I’m thinking big crappie, the drag begins to slowly come off the reel, very slowly as I trolled forward. Picked up the rod and its dead weight. At this point I’m thinking it’s a snag, as I lift the rod tip I notice something bright yellow pops up behind the boat and I see my jig. The jig had snagged some fishing line that was attached to a rod. I was seeing the bright yellow rod tip. I reeled in the spread as best I could and reversed the trolling motor. As I came close I netted the butt of the rod to see this reel attached: a 4000 shimino stratic reel. The reel looks to be in great shape. That was pretty cool, this atones for the $20 “walmart” special I lost a couple weeks ago.

    A couple weeks ago I brought my old man some fillets and he smoked-em up . It was some pretty good eating. Tightlines





    This article was originally published in forum thread: Report: Smoked EM- 12/06 started by Slab_Slammer83 View original post
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    1. pesce's Avatar
      pesce - 12-10-2015, 06:41 AM
      Great pics !
    1. GoTennTitans's Avatar
      GoTennTitans - 12-10-2015, 06:51 AM
      That was mine. I lost it last week. Thanks for retrieving it for me, I thought I would never see it again.

      Great report and find. GTT
    1. scrat's Avatar
      scrat - 12-10-2015, 06:52 AM
      Wow! Nice crappie and two future young fishermen also. Thanks for the fishing information and pictures.
    1. Redge's Avatar
      Redge - 12-10-2015, 07:15 AM
      Glad you got on the water, i would say you did good on the rod/reel trade with the lake!! Nice crappie and kids photo. Thanks for posting.
    1. Ketchn's Avatar
      Ketchn - 12-10-2015, 08:11 AM
      that there shimao was the ketch a tha day for sure ......
      very kewl brother .......
      nice story and photos as well .....
    1. Speckanator's Avatar
      Speckanator - 12-10-2015, 08:50 AM
      Glad you found my rod/reel
    1. Billbob's Avatar
      Billbob - 12-10-2015, 09:41 AM
      good times
    1. Tn Johnboy's Avatar
      Tn Johnboy - 12-10-2015, 09:45 AM
      Awesome pics and report !
    1. bee's Avatar
      bee - 12-10-2015, 11:48 AM
      Very nice catch. Congrats to the little ones. I also smoke crappie. I call it crappie candy. Try some less smoked and make a fish chowder. Only smoke them for flavor not to dry them out.
    1. brucec's Avatar
      brucec - 12-10-2015, 12:04 PM
      Sweet!!!
    1. RetiredRR's Avatar
      RetiredRR - 12-10-2015, 07:09 PM
      Those boys will remember times like this.
    1. Speck Detector's Avatar
      Speck Detector - 12-10-2015, 08:06 PM
      Way to represent no more sneaking out early without 1 of them young ones tugging on your pants to go...
    1. "D"'s Avatar
      "D" - 12-14-2015, 09:11 AM
      Nice. Fish Taco's.
    1. DCottrell's Avatar
      DCottrell - 12-16-2015, 11:37 PM
      Great catch, looks like you have many years of fishing partners, Great pics. Enjoy these times they go by quick.

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