Big Crappie in one hand, big camera in the other. The result is a bad picture.
So i landed this 10" crappie today, had the fish in one hand, big camera in the other trying to take a picture before i put her back, this is cropped because the majority of the picture caught the lake in the background and not the entire fish. Next time I'll look and the picture when i take it before i put the fish back.
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First I'll start out by saying that i did go fishing Friday afternoon after the storm system that brought severe weather to our area Thursday moved out. The bite was very active as a southeast wind blew into the cove where crappie, bluegill, wipers and bass have been setting up pretty much for the past two weeks. The niche was finding out what color they were into, which turned out to be a dark blue or dark green with a spinner blade to create some flash, the size wasn't very much, 5 - 7" crappie and smaller bluegill, once in a while i got wiper or small bass. What i didn't count on was a few severe storms firing out to the west that blocked out the sun, once that happened, the bite turned off. Couldn't make it out Saturday, but i decided to make up for it Sunday.
Sunday, i finally made it out around 4pm and went to the inline spinner and retrieved it very slowly, just enough to keep it from hitting the bottom, caught another wiper but nothing else. Probably too much sun for them to care about flash and too windy to care about vibrations. So i went on to put a few jigs in the water and retrieve that even more slowly than the spinners. There was no luck at first with the light/bright colors like white, pink, yellow, orange, and gray. A few guys came over and told to switch to larger jig body and fish near the brush, they were catching some small crappie and bluegills on that with a charteuse color. But i chose to keep my jig the same but go a darker color and fish the deeper water that lead into the cove, within a couple of cast, i landed the 10" crappie pictured above. Both guys packed up their stuff and left. So the color choice worked out to be black/blue/dark red/dark green.
I lost 4 out of my 5 Blue Fox Vibrax deep spinners that i have been catching the majority of my crappie on. The last one i have is the Firetiger and they have been turned off to the color of it. The others i lost were the dark blue, light blue, rainbow trout, and green. So I'll have to order some new ones from Bass Pro Shop or Cabelas since neither of them carry what i want in the store.
