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We tore them up last 3 days. Two older friends and ones grandson went out with me this morning. We got started a little before 7.00 and quit at 9.00. Kept 4 limits of Channels and a Crappie. Most were 1 to 4 lbs. Did have some up to 10 lbs.:D Need to remember to take the camera, but that means I could'nt fish. :(
Funny thing is everyone says Crappie are slow. We catch some every day Catfishing with Catalpa Worms.
congrats on a good day
Hey Nimrod....You tried fishin' for the crappie? Sounds like they're in shallow and maybe will take a jig?
Nimrod,
What do you use for bait? How do you place it, with tops you have put in or along specific topo features, what is the average depth? I put up about 1200Catalpa worms recently, would like to try your tecnique out on Greason.
Been fishing ledges with shallow(5') to deep water(10') close the channels (15-25'), either stumps or pallets on them. Feeding sweet feed every day or two.
We caught 3 limits today but mostly fiddlers. They bit good till we ran out of fresh Catalpa Worms. Started using some old frozen worms and they did'nt want them. Took Rodney Elmore and his youngest son fishing today.
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Those make nice fillets.
A friend turned me on to Wright Patman over at Texarkanna this spring, can't keep any under 12", allowed to keep 25 per person, per day. We just fished like fishing for Bream,bobber,Bream hook, split shot, 1 to 1 1/2 feet deep against the buck brush, went twice, we caught limits both times did some culling and were not on the water all that long either time. (Canadian Night Crawlers) 1st then I took some of my Catalpa worms the 2nd.
Last 5 mornings we dressed about 150 Catfish . Even caught a few Crappie and Bream on the Catalpa Worms.
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Nice Pics and report Nimrod. Thanks
If you are catching crappie on those catalpa worms you must be verticle fishing them. Don't seem like the crappie would bite them if you were tightlining on the bottom.
Nimrod, How do you feed the sweet feed? ( Just throw it in or in a chum tube or something else) thanks Mike
Drop it in.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by MissUL8R
We fish lines longer than the depth. No weights and it sinks to the bottom, but will rise some if the boat swings. Crappie will feed right next to the bottom at times around cover.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbaskett
Lots of fun. I have baited with sweet feed before and it does draw them in. I also sunk a 5 gal. bucket full of holes with feed inside where I was broadcasting the feed to help keep the fish close. I was baiting @ 18' of water next to cover near the back of a cove and had the bucket tied to a stump sticking out of the water the last place I baited and it did fine.
Sounds and looks like you guys had alot of fun and really wore 'em out. Congrats...and thx. for sharing those pics.;):)
I thought it was interesting that you just dump the sweet feed in the water without putting it in an onion bag or something. I never would have thought of that.
I know an old commercial fisherman around here who gets some milo or other grain, puts some water on it and lets it sour. I don't know whether he just dumps it in the water or puts it in a container as he fishes Black River a lot where there would be current. He does say it works well. Have you ever tried that?
Also one of my sons went with 3 friends to a local lake and ran limb lines Friday night. They caught their limit of 40, 39 of which were nearly identical 3 lb. channel cats, but they had one flathead they caught on a night crawler that would have gone at least 20 lbs. and maybe more.
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Originally Posted by blairarnold
Nimrod,
Thanks for the info on baiting, was gonna try on Greason today but got rained out so met with a friend from Dover up at Nimrod.
Made a trip to Nimrod Lake today. Just doing something different. Caught a couple of 5 lb cats on noodles, nice fillets, supper later in the week. Did not really fish very hard, had motor troubles.
A lady I saw said they had really caught the catfish and crappie today there.
Pretty place, love the bald cypress.
You must have fished lower end out of Quarry Cove or County line? Maybe upper end at Sunlight bay? That's where the Cypress are planted. Have not seen many Crappie , mostly catching Bream and Catfish being caught.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbaskett
I took a buddy from Havanna today. We kepted 2 limits of Channel Cats. They weighted about 60 lbs total (3 lb average). Biggest Cat was 8 lbs. We used Chicken guts for bait.
My dad put chicken guts in a folgers coffee can years ago, set the can on the roof top in the hot summer sun, it did get ripe, I was just a kid but if I recall right Dad and my Brothers were going to trotline with it in the Little Missouri river by Prescott. The chicken guts were so terrible smelling they ended up just throwing it away, they coud not stomach the stench.
I KEEP MINE ON ICE. THEY SPOIL VERY QUICKLY. THE LIVERS ARE GOOD EXCEPT THEY ARE LOST EASILY. THE BEST IS THE SMALL INTESTINES, A 4 '' SECTION WILL STAY ON THE HOOK SO GOOD MOST OF THE TIME YOU WILL CATCH SEVERAL FISH ON EACH BAIT. YOU WILL NOT NEED MANY FOR POLE FISHING IF YOU KEEP THEM FRESH.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbaskett