The "Chick" 7-11-13 ... 2 TARPS / mixed bag

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07-11-2013, 07:59 PM
Muskrat

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The "Chick" 7-11-13 ... 2 TARPS / mixed bag

A spur of the moment trip worked out well this afternoon for myself and Debbie. We fished for around 4 hours and caught over 30 crappie...4 channel cats...7 yellow bass...9 bream...1 drum. I also lost a nice bass right at the boat. I didn't have much gas and no fishfinder so I went to a reliable rocky bank and point and we caught all of our fish there. A lot of shad in the area for most of the time that we were there that seemed to keep the fish active even while it was sunny later in the afternoon. The bite really picked up about 2:30 and I lucked up on a couple of nice crappie in about 8-10 feet within 10 minutes of each other. The first was right at 14 inches and the second a smidge over 14.25 inches and most of the other fish in between were keepers. Deb caught most of the crappie and cats but I got braggin' rights ( for a change ) with the larger ones. We caught a lot of the fish casting 1/24 and 1/32 oz. BG and curly tail jigs but most of the fish were caught vertical jigging 1/16 oz. jigs tipped with minnows on a drop-off over some brush piles. I didn't want to leave with the good bite that was going on but work gets in the way of my fun sometimes.
07-11-2013, 09:14 PM
Dave and Lynn

Those are some real nice ones. You guys sound like Lynn and I. She out fish's me a lot. But she relies on me to put her on fish. Thanks for the report.
07-12-2013, 05:38 AM
Kingfish1

Great pictures. Makes me want to go fishing today. I will have to wait until tomorrow. Congrats on the TARP Crappie.:ThumbsUp
07-12-2013, 12:44 PM
jimp

Congrats, definately some nice fish there.
07-12-2013, 05:34 PM
PaulL

Not to distract from you catching some nice fish but what does tarp mean? Been wondering that
07-14-2013, 09:16 AM
Muskrat

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Originally Posted by PaulL

Not to distract from you catching some nice fish but what does tarp mean? Been wondering that

TARP - Tennessee Angler Recognition Program. A program that allows anglers to have their trophy fish recognized by the TWRA. If you catch a fish of a qualifying length the TWRA will send you a certificate with your name and length of the fish with a color reproduction of the fish. You must have a photo of the fish next to a measuring ruler or tape or verified by a witness. The minimum length for a black or white crappie is 14 inches. The photo that you send in may be used on the TWRA site also. You can read a little more about it on the TWRA website.
07-14-2013, 09:29 AM
Muskrat

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Originally Posted by Dave and Lynn

Those are some real nice ones. You guys sound like Lynn and I. She out fish's me a lot. But she relies on me to put her on fish. Thanks for the report.

Yeah... Deb does a great job catching fish and she really enjoys fishing. I might have to tie a loop knot on her jig or bait a hook for her every once in awhile but she can sure do the rest. I have to be on my game just to keep up with her sometimes.