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hi everyone just signed up this weekend . Im from Purcell Oklahoma i fish alot of ponds and our lake here in town i dont have a boat so i do what i can to catch them
Welcome aboard
Hi. I'm from Northwest Louisiana and new to this board. I'm a novice sac-a-lait fisherman at best. I've been lurking for some time now and have availed myself of some of the structure tips already with a few PVC tops under my dock. Great site!
Welcome to our Crappie.com family Duckmarshal
Moved to Newbie forum (outside this thread!)
Hey y'all. Just joined today. I live in West KY. Love crappie fishing. Heck y'all, I love all kinds of fishing. Glad to be here and hope to meet some of y'all some time. Good fishing to all.
Brandi.
Welcome to the Crappie.com family Brandi
10-4 Good Buddy,,I got my Ear's On!
Thanks for the welcome, Im from Southeastern Ark, havent been fishing a long while now. Trying to get back in the groove and can use all the help I can get....lol.
Glad to meet you all and hope to make many new friends in the near future.
Greetings from south Alabama. A friend of mine told me about this site and I just signed up. I mostly have fished saltwater and I'm looking forward to learning from everyone!
hello everyone i am from Pennsylvania . I am mostly a fly fisherman, heck i just love fishing. I love catching anything that swims. But this time of year i really am looking forward to those black crappie. I hope to talk to alot of the board members, learn alot and maybe give some advice
Willie Mckoy & FlyFisher2 - Welcome to the Crappie.com family
Another new guy here, from NW Indiana.
I live near a 900 acre lake in the town where I grew up. Caught my first crappie with a Pinkie Jig on a spinning rod I won in the IGA raffle over 50 years ago, and I'm fortunate to be able to fish the water still.
It's been the longest, coldest winter here in many years, maybe the coldest and snowiest ever. ('67 was pretty bad.) We have more ice today that we have sometimes in mid-winter.
Most years the ice out bite is over by now, and it hasn't even started yet. We still have over a foot of ice in places, including my favorite crappie hole, and after today's warm weather we're going back down below freezing (mostly) until the end of next week. My pal caught a pike up in a long boat slip with a small open area in the ice where a swamp drains into the lake. If the pike are just now up in there spawning...
Thank you for having me. I will be new to Crappies, I have never fished for them before but I'm excited to try. I am from Putnam, Connecticut and noticed there is no State page. Can we fix that?
You can send Slab a PM and talk to him about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BFVsForever
Thank you.
SpeckMaster and BFVsForever - :welcometo the Crappie.com family
Thanks for the welcome guy.
I brought a dozen nice ones home today. Might have done more but I had to quit and get warmed up when I lost feeling in my right index finger and couldn't get it warmed back up. I have had frostbite injury to my fingers before so I have to be careful.
IAKid52 from East Central Iowa joining crappie.com today. Excited to hear about all the good crappie news out there. East Central Iowa isn't exactly a hot bed for knockin down the slabs, so please get me headed in the right direction. Thanks all.
Welcome IAKid52, from Indiana
New members here home lake is rend lake il. We like the information found here and look forward to future post yours and ours
Welcome "jf/pf rend lake team"
Welcome - jf/pf rend lake team
Good afternoon all... I live in Palm Beach county Florida and just retired a few months ago.... I am in the process of buying a house on a canal that leads into Lake June Florida in Lake Placid....Excited about fishing soon.... Thanks for having me.
Welcome aboard
Thank you G..Been saltwater fishing for years...Now looking towards freshwater after my move to Lake Placid, Florida
Thank you for letting me join your group. I have learned so much already. I find myself checking in during the day at work...guess I'm hooked and its almost spring fishing time here in upstate New York. Thanks.
Roger Nickol
aka catphish
Welcome to the Crappie.com family - NY is always glad to see new members join.
Add another BASS convert, and happy to be aboard.
Bass are fun to catch, but they dont fry up very well. Welcome to the Crappie.com family.
Hi everyone, my name is Larry and I love crappie fishing.
I use a 19' boat make by Lowe 1996 model with a 4S Mercury 115hp.
Electronics are HDS 12 touch and a HDS 7 touch but I use two LSS xducers, one up front on a stick and one on the transom.
I am retired but not really as I do Minn Kota trolling motor repair as an Authorized Service Center.
Happy to join and anxious to learn more about this great sport.
Good fishing
Larryb227
Welcome to the site. I fish with Off Shore planerboards for Crappie. Good to know there is a place to get Minn Kota's fixed.
Howdy y'all, from the eastern side of Spartanburg County. Signed up years ago when I did a lot of bass, crappie, and cat fishing with family and friends. Haven't really been fishing in years, but I think this years I'll start going again, seeing as things have somewhat settled down in my life. I've probably fished just about every lake, and most public ponds, in South Carolina, as well as a little in GA and NC. I live in the upstate, but my favorite lake is Murray. I have some family down there, as well as an old trailer on the water. Just thought I'd pop in and introduce myself. Y'all take care now, hear?
Well, hello. Brand new here and just had to come and tell you all a little story.
I'm in the far NW suburbs of Chicago and living on a private pond. Never really did much crappie fishing in my life. Beeen living in the Rocky Mountains most of my life until last fall.
Anyway, the kid next door tells me there are big bass, and big crappie in this pond. So, a couple weeks ago I buy a cheap Shakespeare Ugly Stick ultra light little rod and reel and some plastic bait... senko worms, crappie magnets, fish attractant, floats, jigheads... everything in every color. Figured I'll be passing a lot of time with my dogs down on this pond. A few weeks ago, I was walking my dogs and saw a neighbor cutting down a tree and letting it fall right into the water, so I've been fishing there a few times. Been catching a ton of LM bass and a few crappie, here and there, mostly on jigs (black curly tail grub and green/chartreuse Leland crappie magnet on 1/32th oz pink jigheads.).
Now, for the reason I'm posting here. Three days ago, I got up early and found the crappie.. went nuts catching 17 crappie, all black at least 6 of them true "slabs"... over a foot long and FAT. Most of the big ones were dark and had egg sacks on the bottom. There were a few small ones and a couple a bass mixed in (one nice one).
Yesterday, I fished in the early morning and caught a dozen in about a half hour, first three casts caught three crappie, then, a few huge ones that really fought and I'm using factory 4 lb line on a tiny rig. Went back out after a little rain in the evening and was catching them every cast. Total yesterday of at least 40 fish. I didn't have a bucket, or a stringer or anything and just released them all.
Memorial Day 2014. Most fun and best fishing I've ever done. Period. Sun is coming out and I'm going back out, this time with dinner in mind. This is like a dream. I feel like a kid again.
Found this site and had to post to tell somebody who cares about my good fortune. I have questions.
How long is this gonna last? After they spawn are they as aggressive and easy to catch?
Great story. Weather is looking fine for Iowa City area today. Hope to get out on my local lake and nab some slab.
Fished for barely over an hour and caught 10 crappie, two very big over a foot ... only put four in the bucket and like an idiot left had no lid and too close to water. The biggest one jumped the bucket shortly after I put it in and made her way back into the water. So, I just poured the other three back out into the pond. I had dinner, but not even worried, I'll get more later. Yesterday the action was good all day but great during the drizzle and after the rain in the evening.
Confidence is sky high and these jigs are working great. Both the Garlands and Lelands. I've found that the lighter the head, the better it seems. Pink works best for some reason and I know this sounds crazy but the float might matter. I had a rocket bobber and got hung up and lost it and switched to a 2.0 crappie float, grabbed the pink one.. the slabs hit my jig before it even has a chance to sink the 20 or so inches below the float. The lighter foam pink float lands softer and doesn't spook the fish. The only weight I have is the 1/16th and 1/32 oz heads.. I'm finding the lighter 1/32nd oz are best right now. I'm just casting from shore into this little cove where I can see the vegetation growing. My bait is just above the weeds and if they don't hit it on the first drop, I just pop it twice and wait a minute, uf nothing, pop it again. The fish are just inhaling these jigs.
Thanks, and Good luck to you. I think the extreme cold winter made for a late spawn around here. Things just started getting crazy a few days ago for me. Exciting.Quote:
Originally Posted by IAKid52
Jamie K outdoors told me that you guys where at fishin creek and meeting at 8:00 pm ,sorry I missed you! Maybe we can get together another time and swap stories and I can learn new strategies . I prefer crappie on the table above any other fish. Holler at y'all soon and where do I find out where your tournaments are.thx
Hey everybody.
Got Here as quick as I could. found Yall on another Fishing forum, that I belong too.
Name is Greg. but most call me Moose, been crappie and cat fishing since I was a Kid, Grandpa was a Bass and crappie man, Dad was a Catfish man. so I had the best of both fishing worlds as a Kid.
Fish out of flat bottom's most of my life. Then a Few year back got a used Tracker Pontoon, 2 year's later the floor was rotten, stripped her to the frame, redecked her with decking boards, custom built a console with a sink put in 4 fishing pedestal seat's up front, custom built a raised fishing deck over the motor. added a Bait tank, now me and the wife are in fishing paradise