Fishing Report 1-13-17

I finished up 2016 with a good trip and some nice fish. Today I started 2017 with a good trip and some nice fish. I hope this continues. Fished one of the small Triad lakes today. Caught 47 crappie, and 3 largemouth. Longline trolling with jigs. Crappie were mostly small as usual on this lake but did have a couple of 10 inch fish. Noted mud stains on the bellies of a lot of the fish, so that tells how deep they were.

Watched as a rod went off and bent down wonderfully. Held to the fish for a long time as I was targeting 17 ft at the time and took a while to get it up. Nice largemouth. As I was lifting it into the boat, I heard a drag zing on the other side of the boat and again a rod bent down wonderfully. I quickly put the bass in the livewell and grabbed the other rod. Fought the fish for a long time and finally saw another nice largemouth come to the top. The two fish weighed 5 1/2 lb and 6 1/2 lb. Set up my camera and took some pictures and put them back in the livewell for about 30 minutes to regroup before releasing them.

I was experimenting today with litewire jigs from Curtis Hobbs with "Litewire Hooks". These were kindly given to me by Chuck Haley to try out. The 6 1/2 lb bass was caught on one of these gigs. I may be a believer now.

A nice start to 2017 and a good day on the water for mid-January.

Rick

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Yes sir, I'd say that's a nice start for sure Rick. Thanks for sharing the trip and pictures.

Nice Rick! Looks like another good trip. Glad you liked the jigs.

Oh no.....Chuck's giving away secrets now!

I'd say those hooks are plenty strong enough to hold onto those big trash fish.

Oh no on "the secrets". I gave him the Green Carp jigs.

Wow! Great report!

That is two nice bass you made a bass fisherman happy by not cleaning them