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10-28-2010, 05:01 PM
CrappiePro

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Had A Tail Gate Party/Invited 20 of my friends over for Dinner/Caney Creek/10-27-10

Well the day started off not good, I made a cardinal sin in crappie fishing, slept in and didnt get on the water till 8AM, (Shame Shame). I can remember my wife saying it's 6 AM and the coffee is ready. Those was the last words I heard from her as she fell back asleep. I thought I was up and moving (But It was all a BIG DREAM)LOL. Next time I woke up I saw daylight coming through the bedroom window. Thought to myself Oh Crap I'm late. Got to Caney got unloaded saw about 4-5 other boats working the pads and stumps over. So i headed to the bridge and fished the piller where a grass mat was pinned agianst it. Like that I had my first 5 keepers. I picked up CS jigs and started working the Pad's and caught 5 more keepers. Had 10 keepers by 10:00 AM. Things got slow as the sun came up so i started casting a jig and bobber about three feet deep and found some stumps with seven good fish (to include a fat 14 incher) which bought my number to 17. The bite on the bobber dies off, so i went back on a verticle jig and grinded out my last three keepers in the pads and nailed my biggest fish a fat 15 incher at 3:15 PM. At 4PM I finally nailed my 20th keeper and called it a day. As I drove home I thought about how that extra hour of sleep costed me and I thought I could have my limit allot earlier that day and probly missed my shot at some even better fish. For year's Iv'e heard my Dad say SON!!! (The early BIRD Get's the Worm). I did Get to meet a Crappie.Comer named TA1/Drew who got there at daylight LOL and had 19fish the last i talked to him, he told me he came from Lonoke based on my reports. I was glad he caught some and made a new friend. :)
10-28-2010, 05:46 PM
ski trip

Another great day on Lake Conway! Those are some dandies, Russ. Keep up the good work and thanks again for the post and the pics. I always look forward to your posts cause I know they will have a story!
10-28-2010, 06:06 PM
"G"

Nice catch and good report...thanks for sharing.
10-28-2010, 06:18 PM
midnight_f150

way to go CP. I really think you are the king of lake conway.
10-28-2010, 07:44 PM
deep_fried_crappie

Man, I really hope there will be crappie left in the lake by the time saturday rolls around, lol. Great job yet again CP. Those are some nice crappie.
10-28-2010, 11:28 PM
AgriHawg

Nice pictures, thanks for all the reports. They're fun to read.
10-29-2010, 07:39 AM
creekslick

Another good day Russ. If those jigs wear out give me a shout I think my shoulder is well enough I could tie a few.
10-29-2010, 11:14 AM
L.A. stumpjumper

Nice catch CP, and some great pictures too. Thanks alot for sharing.
10-29-2010, 11:51 AM
DrJohn

Good looking fish...even if you slept in!
10-29-2010, 12:28 PM
jiggshooter

nice mess of fish and very nice pics
10-29-2010, 09:30 PM
TAV2

Hey Russ, it was nice to meet you the other day. I told you the wrong handle for me, but it's been a good while since I've been on here and couldn't remember it exactly. Anyway, I did finally pick up #20. Seems like I had to fight through a bunch of short fish to get there, but that's fine w/ me. I did keep two 10 inchers, but the rest were all 12" - 13" with two slightly over 14". Cool place to fish, although it's new to me to drive through the city to get to a fishn hole lol. I did catch a few on your special Caney Creek tube (thanks for sharing a couple w/me), but the majority of my fish came on a white/chartruese tube fished on a 1/32 orange head tipped w/ a white nibble. The bridge and pads were the ticket for me early, but as the sun got up and the boats came out I caught the rest on isolated stumps off the bank. Thanks again for the tips and I'll see you on one of the creeks over there in a couple of weeks!
10-29-2010, 10:32 PM
CrappiePro

Hey TAV 2 nice to meet you to man welcome to the Arkansas Board, Yes it's amazing how many crappie that little creek really kicks out. It just keeps reloading off the main lake as the weather cools. Get there early and before the crowd and you can put a whippin on em. Also try Gold Creek It should be firing up good about now. Glad you got that 20th and sounds like you had a real good day. See you soon.
10-29-2010, 10:42 PM
Redy2Fish

CrapppiePro, Some nice fish or you have long arms! You ever fish the old Air Force Landing area on the Palarm Creek side? Long time ago, in the 70s, crappie fishing was great there.
10-30-2010, 08:28 AM
CrappiePro

Yep they closed it in the early eighty's just before I was stationed at LRAFB. I thought it was located at the Pierce creek access but i may be wrong. LOL Lots of History to this old lake built back in the 50's I forgot all about that landing until u just reminded me. Hate to think about all the fish caught out of it over the years. Some of the old timers say you could get lost in a boat out there from all the cypress that was in it.
10-30-2010, 03:14 PM
Redy2Fish

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Yep they closed it in the early eighty's just before I was stationed at LRAFB.

I was at LRAFB in 70 and 71, back from 74 to 78. Air Force Landing was my home away from home, SSgt Ray Westmoreland and his wife ran the place the entire time I was there, then he retired and they moved home to Tennessee.

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I thought it was located at the Pierce creek access

And you are right, I just looked at it on Google Maps and it still looks much the same from the satellite view, especially the boat shed and its location, yeah, we used to catch a lot of fish over there, and it was convenient enough to where I lived to hit it after work, etc. Could always crash in one of the trailers if I stayed too late. A lot of us would clean our fish and give to to Wes and he would have a fish fry for the base a couple of times a year! Green Lake was a good place to fish back then! If you strayed to far from the boat lanes, getting lost was a good possibility! Thanks for the reply, I plan to come out that way and fish Conway some day!