Thread: So there I was

The wind wasn't much of a problem where I was. the main lake was beating the band though with small white caps. The trouble was that with that much wind on the lake moving that much water at a right angle to me, the wave action was pushing fair sized rollers in on me. Not bad enough to keep me or you from fishing, but I worried all the movement would wear my Dad out.

So, after the first fish so quick, I was pretty excited thinking my master plan of starting 3/4 of a mile above my spot would pay off. I was thinking that my fish weren't relating to anything in particular, but were roaming and I'd pick up more by expanding my water. Turns out I was dead wrong and wasted a lot of time fishing slack water. Ended up that 80% of the fish and bites we got were withing 50 yard circle of where I'd caught 'em last Sunday.

Here's my Dad's best on the day and my best from the PM as well.

My Dad was able to stay until 1 and I don't mind admitting I didn't put a Crappie in the boat the entire time. I lost a good one and missed a few, but my Dad boated all 4 keepers. Needless to say, it was pretty dang slow, but he managed to amuse himself by giving me the full Be smack talk treatment all AM. LOL.

Dangdest thing though. Same colors, same depth and his 3 poles amounted to 90% of all the bites we got. It's just weird like that sometimes. But honestly, I'd pay good money if I could plan it like that. He was grinning and having a good time putting a whoopin on me like that.

Wannabe...

Very nice!!!! It was good of Hasbeen to go with you so you could get some fish in the boat.:D

Is it allowable to praise your Dad on one post and cuss him on the next?

Dang Newbie.

Wannabe...

As you can tell from the pic above of my fish against my Rod, Creekslick's road runners were getting another good field test. They really are some nice baits and he's a super duper trooper of a guy as well as extremely handsome and a heck of a good fisherman as well as having quite the attractive figure and the prettiest teeth I've seen in quite some time. And I have no alterier motives for posting that. Really.

Unfortunately, I there were some nasty stumps in the area that seemed to enjoy Creek's Kreations as much as the the fish were.....so I ran out. LOL.

Had to switch off to some SatDoc Speshuls. The fish didn't seem to mind much though.

Wannabe...

Hey Creek, 'em bad boys were absolutely crushing them when I could run up on one. Notice, they took Sat's reluctantly above just nibbling it with their lips. This one wanted to rub his tonsils all over it.

Don't know what the difference was. Maybe the sweetness of it's creator?

Wannabe...

Oh, BTW, need my address again? Or did you save it last time? LOL

And then.....it was over. Dern but 8 to 5 was never, ever more funner though.

Matter of fact, that was the funnerest fishing trip I've had all week.

Speaking of the weather, the wind died steadily all day. By 1 when I took my Dad in, running on plane was no problem. By 3, it was just a soft breeze and at 4 the lake turned to glass.................but I still fairly hate me a weatherman.

Wannabe...

And the final count. 12 Keepers, 1 throw back, 2 stipes, 2 cats and, I think, something like 5 lost fish and a bunch of misses.

Even though I said they were crushing it above (sue me, writer's license), it was kind of a light bite 1/2 the time. Other times, they'd hammer it. Sunday was 100% on the road runners, Tuesday it was 50% on top jig, 50% on road runner on the bottom.

I was fishing a real depth of 23 to 25' and all fish came out of a real water depth depth of 23', close or pretty dang near the bottom. My spot ain't a T winner, but there's fish there if you can dial them in to the small area they're holding to. I'm 100% confident there's better fishing somewhere else on the lake right now, but I went with what I had to work from.

Wannabe...

Epilogue:

16 fish from Sunday and Tuesday are gonna feed 4 needy banking families this week, so those Crappie's sacrifice will not have been in vane.

Wannabe...