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Ya sayin it's big enuf?

Went fishing last 2 mornings, bite is tough, better have minnows! On tons of fish but they aren't very active. Soon as it cools down it will be game on!!
5 to 1 dink to keeper ratio this weekend.

"minnows" never heard of that brand of jigs, are they hair or marabou?

faux fur

RDJJ you youngsters haven't heard of minnows? Frank or Dr Nip can sell ya some I am sure!! LOL

I'm not scared to admit it. I've bought minnows 3 times this year by gawd. Haven't bought em in 4 years! Only other bait I'll use besides mine to fish with. Lol

I was there Saturday and Sunday. Bite is tuff. Didn't bring minnows Saturday. No keepers in the boat that day. Lot of short strikes like small bluegill or something.

Went back Sunday with minnows. Some of those short strikes finally became hookups but they are very small fish. I called in some help to Redge and even one of his honey holes only netted me 1 keeper. Wouldn't bother me so much if it wasn't so stinking hot out!!

Hoping now with school in session, boat traffic will go down. Some things I've noticed the past weekend:

1.) Bring minnows. Those fish are feeding so heavy on shad they won't bite anything else I don't think. I was watching swarms of them down on the bottom at 20-23'. They would then come right to the surface, 5' mark actually. You'd see several small splashes around you. Then they go back down. I don't know what all fish are in these school but there are crappie cause I'm catching one here and there. But it's slow and for me, mandatory that I use minnows. I can't hook up without them.

B.) Park rangers are sitting at the boat launch in their car and checking boats. I'm guessing to make sure they have enough life jackets, maybe throw floatations, perhaps if you have beer? I dunno. They don't seem to check anyone leaving, just people putting in. And actually I only saw them checking the ski boats with college kids. Lol.

Yellow.) Pee before you get to the launch or hold it till you are out on the water. I'm guessing the floods wrecked the bathrooms at the boat ramps. Chicken creek is locked up and it smells like the entire thing back up into the outhouse. You don't even have to be all that close to smell it. They are bad!! I feel sorry for whoever has to clean this up. I'm thinking dig a new hole and move it. Just cover up the old one with 8 tons of dirt and 10 million of those little car air freshener pine trees. Bleh!!

i. I'm still seeing the occasional BIG log sticking straight up. About a foot out of the water. Keep your eyes peeled.


And and go watch Redge with all his electronics. It's so cool. I'm jealous. He has so many gadgets I think he used to work for NASA or something. More radar than I've ever seen. If he can't find the fish no one can. The good news is with all his gadgets he will never notice the GPS tracker I added. So don't tell him. Our secret. I'll upload his weekend fishing spots so we can all benefit!

Pappa keeps telling me I need to fish with Redge one time. lol