happens every year , everyone that has fished for crappie and or is about too, is excited about it , and throw a few fish in the mix and just wow ,let the good times roll .....
so here we go , I roll up to a spot , there is a
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the large fish are up as they often do, ahead of the pack ....
if you like large crappie in shallow water ,you best go looking .....
seen some smaller fish this week already showing up to the dance ....
I suggest you use an
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Unfortunately, we will just never know for sure , I did measure it, best I could, before watching her lay on the surface as she reorganized herself and got upright and very slowly swam away .
At first glance I thought she was right at
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There are those once in a lifetime situations ,when you just know it's going to happen due to previous scenarios .
a few boy fish shallow in 2 fow , no girls with them , but the girl fish are nearby and some are in 6 foot of water ,
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But there are those days when you just can't continue to go on with life if you don't ketch some fish.
So even though the masses said where are you going and when will you be back and there are a million things you need to be doing .......
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there are fish to be had off the bank , but for sure best get out your bag of tricks.
the fish recently in one location by my job are tough as it gets .....
you MUST drag your jig so ridiculously painfully slow right off the bottom
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This large white crappie just had to get with me for a photo opportunity.
It probably saw me on the bank in my extra cool Crappie.com attire.
The fish was in the whoop's mode though, as it really put up a serious struggle on the
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So many with that there stalk them down gear nowadays makes me wonder if the definition of BIG crappie might be changing .....
We used to think 2 lbers in our area are BIG crappie , and even though we have lots of stalkers in the mix
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they were all just baby crappie and they were in numbers when I checked up on that location .
soon the bigs will be in there though and in order to stay on bank crappie one must scout ones locations regularly , I was just scouting and
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MAN did I do well with zero distractions yesterday , I returned to scene of the crime on my way back from our country place .
Boy howdy was it a good visit , just me and a jig and them fisheez ...they didn't realize I was there apparently
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Used to frequent the river beside my work in the hot water summer months , for many moons it was a simply excellent choice midday in the summer, one could hang around an hour or so and ketch 30 or 40 easily .....
the shade under the bridge
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Some might argue that the best bite is this time of year or that .
Some say the fall bite
Some swear by the winter bite
Some swear it's the spring fling
I tend to think that if you stand the heat in the kitchen
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Dropped my jig down , set the hook and just like that POW goes my line !
Wife says no problem sir , I will ketch whatever just did that to ya .....
I thought ok sure honey go ahead , it deserves to be ketched .....
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Lil Red Riding in the hood does it yet AGAIN !
Man will she flat out make ya proud to know her ....
That set up is pure gold , never mind all the big bucks folks
AND GET this .....I am SO SO SO in love with her I went to
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I want to go fishing !
If you have children or grandchildren in this case , you probably understand how unbelievably cool it is to hear such words.
About nothing I can think of makes ones heart melt quicker and causes
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