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Guntersville, April 27
I finally got on a few crappie. Yesterday I caught 9 keepers and 1 channel cat. Today I went back to the same place and set up just a little different and caught 17 keepers and 4 channel cats. Had the boat in 18 FOW, fishing minnows and BG baits about 7 feet deep in 12 to 15 feet of water. Some were at the very ends of treetops and some were on out closer to the boat and suspended. All bites were solid and most of the fish were pretty lively. 3 or 4 just rolled over and came to the surface like I remember them doing when I was a kid. Most of the crappie were whites 10 & 11 inches long and 3 or 4 were in the 13 inch range.
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nice. Wish we could find some in our old spots,
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The breakdown after cleaning 'em.....14 of the 17 were whites and 13 of those had eggs with some ready to pop. Of the 3 blacks, one was the blackest crappie I have ever seen. It was just coal black all over. One of the other 2 blacks had eggs.
I saw fish splashing quite often at the very edge of the bank in places that were impossible to fish due to overhanging limbs all the way down to a foot or less above the water. I saw 1 fish come out of the water under the limbs and it looked like a white crappie. The water is about a foot deep there. I believe what I saw was the actual spawning up under the limbs where Herons and other vermin can't get to the beds.
And the BEST part of the trip was when the Bald Eagle came in about 40 yards from me, dove down to the surface twice and got a fish on the 2nd try. It was AWESOME to behold!
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Very cool trip!! Congrats
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