That distraction could make it hard to fish.
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That distraction could make it hard to fish.
Had some friends down at our place this weekend. Since it was raining, we picked up some minnows and decided to see how the fishing was at our dock. We caught about 25 crappie over the weekend, but only a couple of them worth keeping. Also caught several little cats. Ended up letting the few go that we actually kept -- not worth the effort to clean them.
Even caught a crappie and cat at the same time - that was a lot of fun.
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Horrible saturday.. 5 total crappie, 2 keepers, water was muddy everywhere we went.. Well I know its always dirty, but dirtier than I remember a couple of weeks ago...I can't wait to get my spider rig setup on the boat.. cover more water more effectively and find them ones whose lips aren't so tight.... Next outing will be back in Indiana where I know the haunts...
Sure has been silent for big E the last month.Anyt body fishing ?
I got a couple of hours in on Gaines Creek a few days ago. Caught a few keepers and several dinks but nothing special. I was long lining jigs in the channel. When I went to brush shallow all I caught were dinks. Jigs only - probably should have brought minnows.
Fished I-40 rip rap 3 times within the last 2 weeks. Only the 1st time did I catch anything of significance. The last 2 days the bite had almost all but shut off.
We fished at the dock a few weeks ago on minnows. We had a couple dozen minnows left over so I decided to just dump them into my minnow box that I hang off in the boat slip (water temp is cooler so I hoped they'd last a couple of weeks). I still haven't gotten around to repairing the lid of the minnow box where the screen has come loose from the wooden frame - so I hung the box where the lid is above the water line. We were down last weekend and I was totally surprised to find 2 perch had gotten into the minnow box -- they had eaten all but 2 of the minnows. They had to have jumped up onto the top of the minnow box and fell in through the loose screen then couldn't figure out how to get back out. But since they had a confined food source, not sure they would have wanted to leave anyways.
Good story Steve- thanks for passing it along!
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Originally Posted by Crappie ciller
Got to the lake on Saturday and found a 3rd perch had gotten over into the minnow box. Still had 1 minnow left in there -- he must be a fast swimmer to keep away from 3 confined perch. Now if I could just catch crappie that easily.