I Keep working for em/Blue Collar Crappie 2/Lake Conway 8-17-11

Well Guys I just haft to keep working for them, covering as many live cypress trees as I can. Fished from 11 AM- Dark, caught 16 keepers and 5 nice fish. LOL I am covering water fast as the fish are bad scattered all over the place. Very seldom catching more than one at any given tree. I was batteling spiders, tree limbs, spider webs, buffalo nats, Trot lines, heat, wind, a lil rain, while keeping a woeful eye out for wasp nest and Cotton mouths in the trees. Oh ya and a stone cold bite two hours before dark. They just quit on me before dark. It's been this way for me most trips this summer here on Conway. They aint giving me nothing easy and I am earning every fish I catch. LOL they are working me hard, so you can understand the title of my last two posts Blue Collar crappie. Lake Conway is a verticle jigging heaven.

What's that net for? Kinda over kill on the dipper? lol lol Wish we had Live Cypress to fish around.

Looks like the effort is paying off. nice catch!

Yea those are some nice ones and im with ya on the spiders/wolves in and on the trees these ones i keep seeing are huge and when hit with a spot light there eyes light up!!

Nice fish CP, keep'em coming.

Nice Russ, I'm going to give em a try tomorrow. Be out there at sunrise...

Good Luck Stubby, I wont be able to join you as I will be on the White River below Bull Shoals till Sunday. Go get em.

HAHA Shane ya them wolf spiders can put a good scare to ya when they jump off the tree onto you. Had one jump right off the tree onto my hat, down my shoulder and right into my boat and run up under my deck where i couldnt get to him. Bout scared me half to death. So I was stuck fishing knowing a huge spider is lose in my boat. Burrrrrrrrrrrr....

Nice fish Russ! Don't let those Wolf spiders scare you too bad...... I'm thinking maybe a White River Bayou for Sat morning (If you know what I mean)! David has been having a vision for the past couple of day's and that is usually a good sign!

HAHA Steve I would rather be seeing silver on the white than rainbow colors, but every now and then me and my wife like to hunt for a pot of Gold. Good luck On the lower White and ill try to work um over on the upper White.

I worked just as hard today here on a lake in Central VA; but there aint no slabs like in your pic in the lake. Aint no cypress either; I sure miss jigging a live cypress tree in a black river or white river lake. Your post makes me want to give Conway another try in a month, but that is 1000 miles Doh

Nice going. Persistence paid off it looks like.

Glad to know I'm not the only one that spiders give the willys.

Looks like your work is paying off. The bite will improve in a few weeks I hope. Congrats on some fine looking crappie.:)

GOod catch russ!!! I will be off MON TUE WED and THU this week if you want to try em on OLD RIVER... Just shoot me a pm.. I have not tried them on old river in quite some time but I am sure we can find some brush piles to fish!!!

soUNDS GOOD 501, ILL BE BACK SUN AND WILL GO GET EM.