Water temp was down to 69 F and falling as I hit several spots. Never found large groups but did keep trying till I had 14 sacalait ( A couple of tacos swallowed the hook to bad I had to keep them) and 2 small bass. I did land a couple of
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Fishing pole guides come in numerous sizes and designs for crappie fishing. Typically crappie fishing poles are designed for fish weighing less than 4 pounds and in a spinning or casting model. Based on that fact pole manufactures usually use standard size guides or smaller.
Pole guides provide a platform for the fishing line to travel as the fishing line is reeled in
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Jeff came up from warrenton area bringing his ranger and we went to a couple of bridges that produced well for us last time. Not so fast dude as with 3 boats and guys on the shore there wasn't much ketchn, we probably caught 4 going on so decided
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Well, woke up to Crows trying to eat my pecans out of the trees. After I ran them off I picked a gallon of pecans out of the trees, set up the Scarecrow, and went Crappie fishing.
Fishing minnows. Most hit it on the drop, deeper in the water column. Those that didn’t hit it on the drop would usually take the bait when I dropped all the way to the bottom and then reeled up a turn or two. Loaded the stringer, but had
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We're having some fabulous Indian Summer weather here in southern New England. I wasn't able to get out over the weekend but I knew I was going today and bugged out of work at 3pm to make the best of if. Cloudless blue sky with the air temp
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I had to take a break from the construction work so the muscadine juice made it into the crosshairs yesterday. I use Sure-Jel original for all my jellies, never had a set problem. Biggest thing is when your juice comes to boil it must be boiling
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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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We've had a great stretch of wonderful fall weather here but nearly every day we've had a wind that has kept me off the water. The last few days it has seemed to calm down about 5:15-5:30 or so. Finished up a bit early at work, flipped a coin,
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Went back to the same area yesterday as I did two weeks ago. River is dropping again, so it takes a while to idle through the cypress tree swamp to get there. Found them in the same general area. Water level in the open lake area averages
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One of my wife’s coworkers found out that my son and I enjoy pond fishing and she extended the offer to allow us to fish a pond on her property. I immediately felt excitement at the chance to fish a private farm pond not far from the house.
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New buddy Jeff came up from west of LSL with his ranger and we headed out. Nice young man who loves to fish for crappie and met him on a fishing dock where we both were ketchn.
intel was they were under any of the bridges in lake
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Was supposed to go with Charlie on his boat to place where reports say big crappie were stacked. I was up at Lake visiting with friends when texted couldn't make it. Favorite spot had several guys in it abd one was a buddy so I sat and talked
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Despite the windy conditions, I loaded up the gear and hit the water after work. Wanted to go yesterday in much nicer conditions but overtime work killed that plan. 60 degrees at waters edge and water temps at 66 once I got out and going. Mostly
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The last two afternoon’s have produced some good quality fish. I had a couple out this afternoon teaching them how to use their live scope and in the process they caught some nice ones #365fishingllc