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Cunningham
I chose to hit Cunningham Lake, for the first time. My first impressions? I really like it. I like the area, the structure around the lake and the accessibility to the shore. I spent most of Friday afternoon out there and ended up catching my limit in crappie. Though they weren't all that big.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxd2HsO2c0
I caught them in a 7' cove it was a pretty sharp dropoff, with some underwater structure to the left where I lost a couple rigs. Caught them using this.
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...s/IMAG0003.jpg
All in all it was a good first trip.
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Good video Chris. We took the boat out last Wed and was suppose to be a nice day. After we got there the wind picked up and we had a few bites but couldn't tell when you had a bite for sure. We never caught anything but a lot of snags. The livewell and the Nav lights didn't work. I got under the dash and found that he wires were pulled apart so I fixed that problem this morning.
I will go down to Beaver on Wed and get the boat stickers put on it and then be ready for fishing. EB
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neat video, but need to keep pole in view all the time when reeling in so we can see the bite
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Nice action I use the same sexy shad quite a bit looks like most hit about 3ft fome the bank. Could try rigging one of those on a jighead and put it about 3ft below a weighted cork then slowly twitch it on retrieve. Are you using go pro camera?
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No, its makeshift hat camera. I bought a small portable camera, punched a hole through the bill of an old hat and screwed the camera on top. Thought about getting a go pro camera. Most of the hits came a good 5 to 7 feet from the bank, which made the water around 5 feet deep. Not all my bites are on camera, I didn't charge it before I used it. Sometimes I got hits right after I started retrieving once it hit the bottom. But as you can see, all my bites came from casting towards the opening of the cove, anytime I casted further into the cove and worked the bait against the wind and the current, I wouldn't get a bite. I had to stay fairly close to this underwater structure off to my left and sometimes got hung up on. I had a 16 foot jigging pole with me, and I rigged it with the same plastic lure and jigged it around the structure, but never got a hit. That's when I realized, they wanted it to move slowly, and they liked the little gold flash from the roadrunner.
Winter just doesn't want to let go around here, had about 2" of snow Sunday night.
I try to keep the pole in view, but its a very short pole. 5' I think. I like the shorter poles for panfishing. I can control the bait and the placement much easier.
You can probably see that a couple of them had wounds on them, no doubt from the pike they recently stocked in there.
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Chris, take a picture of your camera set-up as you have it, if you would, and post it on here! EB
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