Lake Tarpon, Tuesday 11-10-15

[fishin813]

Morning started out with rain, heavy
overcast - rain, 73 air temp, water temp
of 74.6.

Yelim & I went to check out Tarpon for 4
time in 3 weeks.
Wind starting pickin up around 8:30 am out of Northwest right down the lake
Spider rigging was order of the day - working various water depths from 8 - 14 ft.
Started NW end of lake - very little
action. no where in the water column,
9:30 am started down center of lake -
(southbound) 10 - 12' - picked one up
here there, no pattern, color or depth.
Wind was causing multi problems continued working west side of lake,
through Dolly Bay - Little Dolly Bay
ending at or around Wall Point. Progress
to there with wind to back - backtrolling
for speed control was 11 fish in well, 10 throw-backs. Colors - red - butterscotch
yellow & Blue (red moon jigs - butterscotch also moon jigs-Blue, mylar
white head, blue collar & body.
Catch depth 8 - 11 ft in 14 ft water.
Camera malfunctioned - no pictures.
ended up with 24 keepers, 33 throwbacks. 7 fish weigh in weight
8 lbs 3.5 oz.
Turned out to be good day...........
Thanks Yelim for being my partner today.



backs.

[fishin813]

[Yelim]

Thanks again Harold. Fun day. Boat and trailer are a masterpiece. Amazing to sit on front porch fishing and have to get up and walk all the way back to the kitchen to get a drink.

[fishin813]

Wish to thnk Rick /Bill's Bait & Tackle for supplying pictures.
My camera malfuntioned and failed to record

[floridascuba]

I should've went today. Decided to smoke a pork butt instead.

[fishin813]

Going back Friday - check out another section of lake.
May even try hand at Long-lining instead of Spider Riggin,
although, do not hold your breath on that commin to pass.

[Tundah]

Catch a few for me Harold, I'm out of the game for a few weeks with messed up elbow.

[huntinslabs]

Nice day for you 2. Better get ya some practice longlining in for your trip to Crescent.

[fishin813]

So true Mike, so true regarding Crescent.
Already in process of making some 3 - 3 1/2" jigs to compensate for them
St Johns Hogs that come through Dunn's Creek.

[Slab_Slammer83]

Great report, sounds like a nice day on the water. I've been creeping for acouple months and decided it was
time t
o sign up to try to learn more and add to the crappie knowledge collective.
I've got a couple dumb questions so try and go easy on me. You mentioned your spider rigging with moon jigs
and mylar jigs. Are you using the typical 2 hook rig when spider rigging or a single jig rig? I always thought the weight (egg weight) should
after the tri-swivel then I read an artical where the egg weight was above the tri-swivel. What se
ems to be more
successful?

I primarily fish the Clermont chain of lakes in open water, nice easy trolling, very little submerged aquatic
veg. I like longlining, but i'll push 4 rods rods while longlining. I'm pushing them fast-ish (0.8-1.1) but I'm catching
some fish. Right now i'm experimenting with my pushed "spider" lines with double roadrunner rigs (1/16) and (1/32) with 1 ounce wt.
Also a mylar (1/32) and moon jig (1/16) with a 1 oz weight. Naked hooks with 1 oz wt, everything minnow tipped. Just want to
see if theres something I can do to increase productivity. Throughout October went out about 5 times, average 10-12 keepers,
20-25 fish per trip, trips are 4-5 hours. Usually the top 7 fish are over 5lbs, best in Oct. was top 7 fish: 6.5 lbs,
everything was real thin. Its supposed to really blow this weekend; I'll give it a shot regardless!