The following is a summary of the posts I made at the expo. Great time, can't wait till next year.
Finishing setting up. Waiting for peeps to arrive in half hour. Stop and spin the wheel of crappie fortune. Might win a hat or crappie com calendar or slabsauce. Cmon down.
The ever popular James Dean stopped by the booth on Saturday and helped me run the booth. Thanks buddy.
Who these masked men and woman? They rolled in on their golf cart the night we arrived at Cossar Park Campground in Mississippi on the last leg of our Corona-virus Tour.
Brought gifts too. Thanks for the picante sauce Slabo. Gotta get some chips and try it. Thanks tons.
(I did get chips, and the picante was awesome, thanks again Slabo, great to see you both,
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Stopped at Dardanelle State Park for a visit with Nimrod.
They really are both smiling. doh
CA and Billbob were able to get out to hunt big Crappie via Live Scope. Billbob got to see a pro in action. They both shared some of their technique with me which will be fun to try to apply to hunting open
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Our adventures continued. Stopped by Mitch’s (owner PICO Lures) and he showed us where the magic happens. Being the perfectionist he is, he still hand makes some specific colors and styles himself that he can’t get done right by anyone else just yet. Hard to get good help these days! lol
He also makes great ribs which were definitely
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The roadtrip began with me delivering a puppy to my Grandson in Illinois. Kovu was a great companion during my long drive, gonna miss that that little rascal (both them).
And so it begins! I drove back to Indiana and picked up the guber. Our first Crappie stop was in Central Illinois. We put up signage to make sure we were practicing social
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Stopped by Mitch’s and he showed us where the magic happens. Being the perfectionist he is, he still hand makes some specific colors and styles himself that he can’t get done right.
He also makes great ribs which were definitely done right.
He starts from scratch too when he makes his ribs!
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This Pelican swam right up to my boat without hesitation. And just stared at me. I caught a smaller crappie, and I threw it back in the water. Kinda in his direction, but I did not throw it very far from my boat. I was really just flipping it back into the water. Wouldn't you know
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My mom's been kinda quarantined all by herself for quite a while now. It's a long story, but since my daughter works (considered essential) my daughter has been staying at my house, and so has my moms dog (moms/daughters dog just had puppies).
Met up with Slab at 7:15 AM and off to Lake Griffin.
Beautiful day to be on the water. sporadic activity, totals for the day boated 24 crappie and one green carp. Put 5 crappie in the live well. Lost several keepers at the side of
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Might as well take a seat, this may easily take longer than the impeachment hearings! As some of you already know, the Florida chapter of C.com held a crappiefest initiated by Slab two Sunday's ago that was unanimously enjoyed/appreciated.
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It was a great event. Especially cause I didn't have to do much. I rented the pavilion, and got a cooler full of cold drinks for everyone, but that was about it. My daughter brought sandwiches and wraps, and chips from Sams Club. And so many members brought additional food. We really didn't need the sandwiches. doh
There was venison sausage, stuffed pickles, macaroni salad, potato salad, deviled eggs, pickled loquat, cookies, cake,
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Christmas fishing started off slow, and very small!
But we did catch a few for the annual Christmas Eve picture taking with our santa hats. yay
I'm the self proclaimed selfie king. This pic below was taken 34 years ago on our honeymoon in Hawaii. Waterfall in background. Wifey looks great now, as
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So shu comes over this morning and we go fishing. I figure I’m gonna show him my new toy, the livescope, and we’d at least catch a few with it. We go to Picciola point since I had caught some there a couple days ago with vbottom. The Fwc placed attractors there
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Caught some nice crappie with vbottom and his wifey. Yay
Livescoping’em. Pretty cool to see them hit.
We longlined like I usually do where we fished, and caught squat. We spent most of our time longlining. So once we changed it up and targeted structure with the
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