Quote Originally Posted by NIMROD View Post
Each spring when first ones move in shallow water, look out over first drop off for big mamas suspended.
She was out in what is deep water at that lake , within a mile or 2 of her exists nothing deeper than 10 fow , there are no drop offs , it’s over 100 years old and silted in heavily.
And for sure positive, she was pushing the lake record on that lake hard , lake record is only slightly over 2 lbs and even without weighing her , I know she hit the 2 range pretty easily.
Behaving the same no matter what lake is common, but knowing the lake well , helps tremendously in knowing where that size fish will be when .
There are likely many more of her size range close to where she was, waiting their turn , they love to hang around in the last 2 boat slips in the deepest water at that spot early in the spawn.
One thing for certain playing ketch with crappie that size under a dock that’s been there forever that has about as many ugly things under it imaginable and only a lil stick in hand ,makes for a heart racing lunch break no doubt about it
Had to cut off 3 foot of line after that battle, she raked my line against all kinds of rusty stuff below my lil feet , that there sand paper feel on 6 lb mono means tie it up again or get heart broke and upset next fish on …