Fish are Biting Aggressive After Deep Freeze

Fished for 6 hours today in Jourdan river boating a pile of Crappie. Almost every one needed long nose pliers to remove the jig. Red Thunder BGBS with a Chrome jighead just delivered. I had some nice ones rise up to beat the shorts to the jig. Fun Times. Walmart here was closing out these coolers, 38 quarts I think. Anyway I didn't both with ice till I got home but just holding the bait still at 12-14ft deep over structure got numerous hookups. I was doing my 2 poles at a time and twice as I was unhooking a fish off one pole a Crappie hit the other pole laying on the deck. Not a lot of rocket science today just fish the deep structure with your jig motionless. 3 shorts are in the cooler that were bleeding bad after the hook removal. I would rather clean them and test my grease with the little fillets then just let the fish die. The cook has to have a snack while frying them up right!



Gotta love launching 1/4 mile from the house and not planing the boat off before hooking the first one.