Sore lip'em all

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Opportunity knocked today. My chance to get out after the finned ones. Rain was misting and air temperatures were dropping but not a bad day at all. There wasn't any long runs made today. I stayed fairly close to my launching site. I would have to say my first stop of the day was the best which accounted for half of my catch.
By the way I had a wonderful coat and hat rack on the back of my boat which fell over the side as I was leaving this site. Oops. I plan to come back periodically and see if I can hang a jig on it as to try and retrieve it. I realize a few fish might get in the way as I attempt to retrieve this with my jig but this but it must be done since I have lost 2 coat and hat racks in the same location this year and I must attempt to retrieve them at some point. I have included a pic of it below just in case someone sees it out on Tellico Lake somewhere.
Anyhow, Leaving stop 1 the wind was starting to pick up. This made boat control and bite detection tough. I stuck it out a few more hours before calling it quits. I had a total of 26 complaints of sore lips by the end of the trip. 10 were keeper sized crappie with a bass and a drum also complaining of sore lips.
I only fished with 2 rods today. One was rigged with a 1/32 orange chartreuse and the other a 1/16 black chartreuse crappie magnet. What I started out with worked well so I saw no reason to change the colors. The 1/32 was used for count down casting and the 1/16 was used for vertical jigging. Appears 17ft was the magic depth of the day at 60 degree water temperature. A little deeper than a few weeks ago at 67 degrees.


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Great job Gene

NICE WORK!!! Thanks for sharing.

Excellent report!

Good report! Nice hat rack

Cool coat rack, maybe some of the local inhabitants will find it and hang around it to make sure it doesn’t go anywhere.


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Nice report. Must be rough losing 2 coat/hat racks in the same area [emoji848]


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Great report.

I like using the holiday colors this time of year too
Good deal!

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Thanks for a fun reading report! :)