Crappie.com - A Good Morning For Gills

Another week of afternoon obstacles, mainly Mother Nature’s fault with wind and rains here in E TN. The one evening I could go and the weather was halfway decent I had to take care of the yard chores. Oh well, this morning the Old Girl gave us a break and I cut a trail to the lake so fast it would make a fish swimmy headed. Greeted by a slight but steady West wind I probed several known beds with little to no luck, so just continued on my usual Milk Run until I stuck a nice male and the fight was on.
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Today’s lure of choice was a Bead Head jig 1/24oz tipped with a Berkeley Power Wax Worm. This combination was deadly, and cast like a little bullet on the Corto with the Ester line.
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I did throw the Trout Magnet some but the fish seemed to be a little deeper so the added weight kept my bait in their faces a bit longer. Anyway, a pattern started to emerge, and the total fish count was well over 50 before long, with the majority of the quarry about average/medium size. Always fun to hear the drag squeal. Good keepers were scattered, even found some in hiding in the shade of deeper docks, bushes, and steep bluff faces.
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The sun was getting brutal and the lake lice were crawling out from the wood work, it was time to go. I brought a couple dozen of the better ones home and released the rest.
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