Thread: I got smoked!

Shu and I went out today to search for crappie on Lake Griffin and I got smoked! Well, not really, it's just that Shu caught 4 fish and I caught zero. I call that being smoked. Yep, the southern end of Griffin still stinks as far as I'm concerned. We fished most of the morning and Shu only managed four bites, and me none. Really! oh well



What was interesting is, there were these two guys in the boat below. They were killing them. They were just motoring around with a net scooping up fish. They had these things hanging off the front of their boat with what looked like chains in the water. I have to get me some of those. They made it look so easy!



At least the FWC is checking to to see if there's fish on Griffin. The result, THEY FOUND NONE! I knew it. They coulda saved their time and just asked me.



Just kidding. They were going through the weeds electrifying and scooping up fish like crazy. We seen them scooping up what looked like bass and crappie. They were dumping them in a tank they had on board. And in their wake, we seen all sorts of floaters. Seems harsh on the fish, but we did double back and seen most of the floaters did right themselves and swim off (except for the ones the Osprey got). It actually was kinda neat watching them in action doing this. I said they were scooping them up like crazy, well not really. Seems like there shoulda been lots more fish. At least that what Shu and I thought. I hung around a bit to see if they would take a break so we could talk to them, but they were too busy. Woulda been interesting to get info on species and quantities from them.

Should have followed them around. Waited until they started dipping mad and marked a waypoint. Good way to eliminate that 90% of water that dont hold fish.

Hey Slab,
If Shu can't find em, the fish just aren't there! I've witnessed him in action...

Slab I saw that FWC rig on Dorr about 4 weeks ago. They were there for 4 straight days doing their job. Not sure if you took note of how they got into the fish habitat but what I watched was pretty hard on the bedding areas with the outboard, similar to a water bush hog if there is such a thing... It took a couple weeks for things to get back to normal once they left.

Originally Posted by russ smith

Slab I saw that FWC rig on Dorr about 4 weeks ago. They were there for 4 straight days doing their job. Not sure if you took note of how they got into the fish habitat but what I watched was pretty hard on the bedding areas with the outboard, similar to a water bush hog if there is such a thing... It took a couple weeks for things to get back to normal once they left.

Yeah, they get into the weeds deep, and really stir things up. But after seeing it in action, I don't feel they do that much overall damage imho. I thought there'd be more floaters dying, which I did see, but very few. And I think some fishermen going through the weeds do just as much damage to the beds. So I dono. If they get good info out of it, and they share it with us, I think it's prolly OK. Just my opinion though. I ain't no scientist.

Hey Slab,
That was awfully considerate of you letting Shu put a thumpin on you....
Him holding up that beautiful spec is a real neat picture.Thanks for sharing

It’s his job to show you how, and your job is o take mom and the girls whenever they can get away. He just doin his natural born.

R i kidding me

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