I'm cooking all the fresh Crappie left in the blast chiller. This time of year I back off a bit while the fish are spawning in our rivers. We don't have a lot of effective, dedicated crappie anglers and conditions are the best for another good
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The LOZ produced another good trip but the fish were a little funky. Crappiejoe12 and I found most fish deep and not many on the bank. Slip corking minnows in boat slips and on spawning banks caught almost everything with some hitting a Shinee
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Spartannation and I decided to hit one of our favorite lakes yesterday down by Delton Michigan. Weather man said high of 45 and steady 10-15mph wind, but the rain from overnight was to clear by 9am for the day. We started with a few remaining
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1963 is the year the old 14’ alumacraft boat with 25 horse Johnson was built that I fished in Tuesday and Wednesday. I kinda felt handicapped without my side imaging on my other boat but I got lucky Tuesday and found some fish. I have to keep
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GOODBYEEEE ARIL!! I’ll just say this I think the crappie are about as confused as we are lol…. They’ve been pretty consistent on showing up and staying at their usual spots the past 4 months and then April shows up they scatter. I’ve never
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I had a lot of chores to do today, pruning plum, peach and apple, took the grader blade off the '51 John Deere M, and put the pond bucket back on for the summer. Cut down a 90 foot red oak for splitting to firewood for next winter, and stacked
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If I had taken the phone apps advice today I would have done most anything else. I’ve got a few days off and wanted to enjoy some mid week bliss so I was on the water by 7. Didn’t plan on a long stay and while it wasn’t stellar I had a good
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So you wonder how many ways you can enjoy your Tamales once made. Here is one of my go to Breakfast dishes. Now I was going Crappie fishing as soon as I ate so I didn't take time to melt my cheese so don't scratch your head and wonder why the
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I only get the weekends off so I don’t choose the weather, I just go and report what happened. So I decided to try the turkeys on the lake this morning and it was as crowded as I remembered it lol. Can’t wait until I can afford 150 acres of
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To begin, the reel for my 6’ build came earlier this week and it’s been a long week waiting for the time to fool with it. I had doctors today and finished early so you know what’s coming. Having put the reel on the rod and spooled it with 100
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Day dawned calm and perfect with gobbling happening and jakes talking. They were right above me at top of big coal spoil pile but when I told my old legs to go up that hill they said NO WAY![emoji30] so had to go along base to come up next
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Onready & I went to our last year's "honey holes" (Fling 2022) and pretty much struck out. Decided to head back up around the marina area & look for some downed trees, after hearing that the fish were being caught shallow.
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So in my never ending quest to help those that seem to want it , here is a simple and quick regular in these parts scenario and the How to hammer them farm pond crappie in such conditions . Note the sketch to simplify the instructional bla
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Got out this morning with my dad. Both prepared to freeze and fight the wind, but the weatherman blew it. Absolutely beautiful today.
Water was like glass when we launched around 8:30 and had a warm gentle breeze a bit later when it
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