I had a buddy that doesn't fish much call me earlier in the week to see if I would take him fishin'... I told him that I would be glad to. He didn't have a fishin' license so I decided to hit a private 200 acre lake near my house. We were on the water around 0730 and the wind started blowin' at 0731 :D:D:. The water temp. ranged from 68.0-69.3 degrees. I hadn't fished this lake since the beginning of February so I thought that I would start out letting him long line so that he would be able to reel a few in. I got him set up and I started spider rigging out the front. We caught several small crappie in the 6-9" range and when I cut across the creek channel to hit another cove one of his rods doubled over... he set the hook and reeled in a nice 13.25" crappie. He was pretty pumped up because it was the biggest crappie that he had ever caught. We kept trolling and about thirty min. later as we passed by a shallow point another on of his rods doubled over... he set the hook and reeled in the fish of the day, a solid 15" pig! You would have thought that he won the lottery... "Whew, Yeah, Whew, look aty this crappie, Whew, Yeah". Most of the fish that we caught today (except the 13.25") were in shallow water so we finished ther day out jigging in some brush piles. The fish that we caught out of the brush seemed to want the jig sitting still tipped with a minnow. We had our best luck on Kalin's Triple Threat John Deere Green and Kalin's crappie scrub tipped with minnows. The 15" crappie was caught on one of the bucktails that mikeb made for me tipped with a minnow! The total catch of the day ended up being 23 crappie, 3 bream, and 3 LMB. My buddy is now hooked for life... he is already asking when he can go again!!!
Blake
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This pic is from my cell phone. I'll try to post some better pics later!
