Thread: Crescent Trip

Tuesday 3-3-15

Started the morning off at daylight in the fog again. Continued fishing where we found fish yesterday. After putting a few slabs in the boat, I got hit on a rod and picked it up out of the rod holder but the fish wasn't on. Next thing I knew it got slammed before it could go back in the rod holder. Thought it was a monster from the fight but turned out to be a 13 inch gizzard shad hooked through the dorsal fin.

The fog lifted a little earlier today around 9:15 and the bite turned off around then. By that time I think we had caught about 15. We found the same school of bass crushing bait where Dad caught the 7lb bass yesterday. We couldn't really chase them being we were trolling 12 rods, but I had a bass pole on hand with a crappie crank that I threw in their direction. I let it sit on top of the water for about 5 seconds, clunked it, and when it came to the surface the bass nailed it. Fun little fight on to change things up.

Didn't do much else till 12pm. I got the big crappie of the trip, 2lb 4oz that we released like all the other 2lbers. We headed in to clean fish and some others came in around the same time. They had 6 and 9 and we probably had 18 or so. One fisherman had a 2lb 14oz slab that was a monster!

Can't wait to go back!