Bm 4/20/12

Tried BM yesterday; TMO since I still haven't gotten a smaller motor. I did get another battery, though. It was real foggy in the morning, and the water at the ramp was 72 degrees:

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I only fished the first two large areas, up from the dam. I caught 13 crappie, 1 yellow perch, and 3 bream in the morning before the fog cleared. Most were caught longlining 1/16 oz jigs tipped with crappie nibbles. They were caught in 16 FOW, where the water goes from 6' to 32". The biggest crappie was 10.5":

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It started clearing about 9:30 - 10:00 a.m.:

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The fish seemed to stop biting, so I moved close to shore to throw jigs at lay-downs. Nada, except 1 dink, so I went back out to the middle and found tons of fish 25' down in 32 FOW. I couldn't get them to bite a whole lot, but I managed 6 more. It was slow in the afternoon, and I had some time to kill, so I went and dropped some minnows around cover--no luck, even though I was marking fish all around.

I tried a 6' deep spot, (fishing 2' to 3' down) about 6:30 p.m. and the fish turned on in a big way. It was a crappie blitz. I caught 40 fish from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.--that's a fish every minute and a half. I got multiple triples. For a while, I felt hedonistic, or glutenous. Every time I pushed 4 rigs in the spot, 3 would go off and start dancing. By the time I got those fish off and the rigs reset, I would push back up to the spot and they would go off all over again. In the back of my mind I kept thinking that something that fun surely has to be a sin, immoral, against the law or something...I kept fishing and grinning anyway.

I ended up catching 58 crappie between 8" - 10.5", 6 bream and 1 YP. They liked chartreuse best: BGBS Chartreuse/black pepper and chartreuse/pearl, chartreuse mister twister curly tail, and Kalin's Lemon Merange all did good. Only a handful of the crappie were 8", and only a handful were above 9.5". I kept 19 of the bigger ones, 3 of the bream and the YP. It was too many fish to clean, so please remind me to stick with my 10-fish rule the next time I go:

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Here is my starter kit. It is still crude and rudimentary, but I'm workin' it. Nobody cares about this kind of stuff, except for people like us:

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Good luck everyone.

Nice catch! How fast were you trolling? I just found a whole box of watchamacallits that I've had for years. I wonder if they would work good for trolling. Dadgum memory. I'll think of their name sooner or later. Road Runner I think.

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Originally Posted by Barnacle Bill

Nice catch! How fast were you trolling? I just found a whole box of watchamacallits that I've had for years. I wonder if they would work good for trolling. Dadgum memory. I'll think of their name sooner or later. Road Runner I think.

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Hey Bill,

My trolling motor has 5 forward speeds, and I was set on #1. GPS said it was about .7 mph most of the time. With the wind effects, speed varied between .4 and 1.0 mph.

I hear from others on this board that Road Runners work real good, but I haven't tried them....yet.:)

Nice.. Good times.

Nice set up, and by the fillets, does a good job!

To lay into em at the end of the day is super, I know that was a lot of fun. that starter rig looks as good or better that most rigs out there.

good report! glad to hear ya got on em, roadrunners are the best... longlined tightlined casted vertical fishing ... not a bad rig idunno

Nice to see calm water. My last few trips have all been on windy days. That lake is loaded with crappie, glad you had some fun.

nice job and great post

Great report... thats a good looking rig. You'll have a lot of fun hauling them in :) I agree that roadrunners are the best! Thats all I use for any style of fishing!

Blake