Thread: Tuxedo time

Spur of the moment and acting on Speck Detector's recent post history, I teamed up with Pontoon Pappy to fish Jeff's large, vast Crappie candy store lake. Before sending out an SOS for help with our meager l/l results, we were basically but roughly in the area that Jeff would recommend. We made it to an area Jeff had proferred only to find it inundated with a SPIDER WEB of submerged catfish trotlines! After freeing our multitude of snagged lines, we got schooled by a commercial fisherman's "conversation" = up close & personal...some of the trotline floats were meager 1 quart oil bottles! We decided to do the dippity-do in the pads and cypress trees. 1st fish, almost instantly, was a dark, tuxedoed 12" stud(Pic w/Don did not do it proper size proportion justice) We chose to stay with the single-line for the balance of our always fun-filled, weather perfect day. Kept for the cleaning table were 14 specks, 3 cats with a few "hummers"(specks and cats) lost at boatside/LDR. Back @ramp near sunset was approximately 30-40 FWC officers with 2 center consoled FWC rigs pulled up to shoreline. Thankfully the submerged boat in canal was successfully removed. The females are still, I think, mostly staged somewhat offshore awaiting the shallow-water courtship Definitely a great diversion from my salt diet. Both Pontoon Pappy and I have a "minimal" amount of l/l experience on this lake but still made something
happen. Great diversion to the day's lunacy news only learned on my Westward return home

Doug