When You Think You've Seen--------!

[flatfish46]

It all I've been on vacation for awhile got My deer Hunt'in out'ta the way went Slab bustin at Palestine Yesterday and fixin to head back it's kind'a cold right fish running fairly deep? Ya think yesterday morning got on a crazy patteren pulled up to a top cast out a golden/carrot shad patteren had My line spoted at 20' didn't make 6' pulled in a nice crappie bout the next 1 hour and 1/2 this went on shad boiling the water crappie pushing them up I caught 30 no deeper than 8' ,fishing! 32' of water switched to a shrimp/pink shad patteren very 1st cast caught the one in the pic. its 16 and 3/8's weighed 1lb 13 ozs. kind'a thin now here's the story while I was reeling this fish up bout 2' below the surface I saw 2 more crappie 1 bout the same size and 1 no kidding bout 6-8 inches longer than this one and about 4" across the back! thats right a 5 lb plus fish by eyeballing BTW I'm headed back in the next few minutes I have to try out the shad jig swap jig whole new thing hope it works!ended up with 41 and 22 keepers all 1pound plus fish JJJ wish ya'd been there!