Quote Originally Posted by catchNgrease View Post
Is it possible you found them at 2:50 and then left the fish.
It could be. I fished that spot from 2:50 to around 3:45. Then i thought I'd push a little further down the bank toward the back of the creek to see if anything was in that water. When I turned around to come back a couple of bass boats raced up to the spot I was previously.

I switched to the other side of the creek until the bass boats left, then returned to my original spot. I started trolling again, but it was so slow that I talked myself into casting a crank bait while I waited. On my first cast with the crank bait...one of my crappie rods got hit!!! It was a good strike too, I couldn't believe it. I had sat there for 10 minutes with NOTHING...then as soon as I have my hands full and move my attention to something else...BAM. A rod gets hit and I miss a strike.

I put the bass rod down, cursing myself for being stupid, and got back to paying attention. That was the last strike I got. At 5 PM I switched over to bass fishing. I had been watching rod tips for 7 hours at that point and I needed a break.