I went out yesterday morning and evening and had following results.
Morning Run:
Slept in til 9:00AM (I hate morning fishing / more so the act of getting out of bed) - Was on the water by 9:15 trying my luck shooting docks. After hitting 3 docks and not getting the 1st sign of a crappie bite, I decided to hang a Slider grub off the back of the boat a couple feet off the bottom. I picked a color that I had caught while trolling last year - watermelon body with chartreuse tail. Within 15 mins I had 2 keepers and another that went 9.5"....all from the slider dangling off the back of the boat.
I moved to my next set of docks that I thought would be "automatic" - NAY-NAY
Same results - nothing from the docks but several sub 10" inchers off of the back of the boat on a rod doing nothing.
I had seen enough. I rigged up the 4 shooting rods I had to troll. I had a bell sinker at the bottom of each rig then attached a couple grubs of various colors above each sinker. I hung them out both sides of the boat and proceeded to troll all around the area which is usually productive for me. I ended up with 10-12 more sub 10"ers and one nice 13.5" crappie. 3 keepers total for the morning run and every single fish is on the same color. And believe me I had tons of choices for them.
As I'm heading back to the dock trying to decide if I want to clean 3 fish or not, I run into a pontoon boat with a family fishing with their kids. We swap fishing reports and I ask them if they want my 3 fish. They accept and ooooh and aaahh when I pull out the 13.5"er....I act like I catch them that size everyday :rolleyes: lol
Like a ding dong I didn't take a pic of the best fish I've caught all year. Doh Chase is like "Yea right Dad".....and I'm kicking myself as I tell him it's tail was hanging out of the crappie measurer we use.
Evening Run:
After going out with the family with some friends on their bow-rider we came back grilled some burgers. All the while my buddy and I are die'in to go back out for the last 2 hours of daylight and troll. We get the boat back in the water and take off down the lake. I get the 4 rods ready again with 2 grubs on each, but this time each rod has one of the go-to colors. (Watermelon / Chartreuse) We caught 15-20 more but not one was 10"
I did manage a 2 for 1 and my bud got a grainy pic with his cell. The double was the only fish that wasn't caught on the watermelon.
It was fun but not enough bigguns. I'm headed back to Loudon when the monsoon decides to let up.
-Greg
