Lake Conway/7-19-11/Couple of Black Monsters/Limit for My 1000th Post

Well guys I fiqured em out today, they were on the edges of the Gold Lake on stumps and Live Cypress. Used a Purple metal Flake Body/Chart tube with Orange head 1/24th oz Just like in the Pic. Fished about 6-7 feet deep on the Gold Lake drop offs, Caught two Nice Blacks which thumped the Jig soo hard bout knocked the pole out on my hand. They were fat as footballs LOL. It was a fun day and was done by Noon. Ive been catching Nice fish about every trip just finally got some numbers today. Not to bad for my 1000th post.

THem are some good fish right there Russ!!! Congrats on the catch and the 1000th post!!!

Looks like your back to catch'n . Sure is hot on the water, you deserve em if you stand the heat. I caught some on Purple metal flake/ Chartruse tubes yesterday too, just bigger jigs. Question : have you noticed black crappie sometimes favoring smaller jigs? We have fewer Blacks in Nimrod so I can't be sure. The Whites always love big baits here though.

Oh Yea, forgot ! Congrats on 1000th post.

Congratulations Russ, them are some real good fish!

Looks like a good mess of fish. Congrats on the 1000th post.

i was wonderin when you were going to share some info and pics of some big slabs, congrats pro

Good job Russ.

Good job Russ. Congrads on your 1000th post. If i am not mistakeing that a new color for 2011 Midsouth Jigs.

Nice mess there Russ. Way to go.I may have to start fishing Conway.

good job russ.i am going to make it their one of these days.

Way to go, dude! Hands Clapping Those are some nice fish now! Glad you found where they are hanging out. I couldn't find them Monday. Sent you a pm. Thanks for the post and the pics. Thumbs Up

well done sir!!!!...

hey nice fish there. Those are what I call LSU jigs LOL.

Those are some nice fish! Great job:)

That's a nice 1000th post. Those look like a couple PIGS too. Congrats.:)

WOWThat is awsome thanks for the Pics and the post keep it up.

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Originally Posted by NIMROD

Looks like your back to catch'n . Sure is hot on the water, you deserve em if you stand the heat. I caught some on Purple metal flake/ Chartruse tubes yesterday too, just bigger jigs. Question : have you noticed black crappie sometimes favoring smaller jigs? We have fewer Blacks in Nimrod so I can't be sure. The Whites always love big baits here though.

Oh Yea, forgot ! Congrats on 1000th post.

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Thanks Nimrod, Good question. Most years i use medium sized or bigger jigs, and caught fish well here. This year the summer bite has been slow for me even for blacks which I target most in summer cos the whites here get awful hard to catch during the summer. It was 9 am before I caught my first keeper and that was after I decided to downsize my bait to a southern pro Lil husler type tube. I have been hearing allot about Purple Metalic/Chart colors. I looked at the thousands of half to 1 inch shad fry swimming around so I made the move to downsize. But i also needed a lil bigger than 1/32 oz head to get down to the 6-7 feet i needed, They wanted that small bait pendaling off that 5-7 feet by a live Cypress or stump on the shady side dropping off into about 10-11 feet of water. And Bingo, Think ill try a smaller bait more often for the Blacks here.;)

Two super slabs!!! Good job, and Congrats on 1000.

Wow! thats a great catch, especially in this heat. Congrats on 1000th post!

Congrats CP on the catch and 1k post!

Congrats on the great catch and the 1000th post CP. I been catchin a few gooduns but not many in numbers in this heat myself. Good to see sumbody knows how to get em in this heatHands Clapping

One day I'll catch one that big.... I hope anyway