Good last trip of the year 2011

being next sat is christmas eve this will probably be my last trip of the year.banghead I used only my handtieds and the plastics ive been tinkering with the last week. Started off at the dam end of the lake, caught 5 soon as I hit the water tightlining 2 rods set 9 & 12 Ft deep in 12-15 FOW one with the orange/chart paddle tail the other a green/white handtied. Caught a 8 or 9 casting the mini twitch minnow and even 2 longlining really slow, then got in em good just off of a flat covered with SAV (coontail) caught one at 14 5/8" 4.5 ft deep in 7-8 FOW, ended up with 44 Crappie and two bass, one of which was a pretty nice fight on a 9' Wally Marshell Crappie Thunder with a Shimano 500 4# vicous line....Hah was the same handtied as I caught the nicest crappie of the day.... I had a blast, just wish my dad could have joined me:( Hes fighting off a resperatory thing, hoping its not pnemonia again.

Sweet trip.

D

Way to go, what is that ugly thing in the second pic?

Nice grass carp, I sure miss fishing with my father.

Nice catch,its great to family fish.

U lucky dog,I had too work today.

looks like you passed on b/m. nothing wrong with pvt ponds. good report!!!

Looks like you had some winds, I can see they didn't slow you down! WTG

Good day's fishing & I hope your dad's on the mend. Pneumonia can really cut into your fishing schedule.

Great job Bennett, nice looking pond. Good report on your newly made plastics and very nice pic's. Good way to send out the old year. I'll be doing the same thing this coming week.

Looks like a nice day of fishing. Hope you're having fun making the plastics. I know I am enjoying it. I also started hand-tying a few hair tails to start with and will probably move along in that too. I just bought a do-it mold for pony head jigs and poured 100 each of 1/16 and 1/8 oz. Powder coated them and put on the blades and split rings. Only reason I did that was that I couldn't find a cheap buy on the pony heads. I also wanted to use sicle hooks.

Mike

I like the crappie pic but can do without the one of the green carp. Of course, you did abide by the crappie.com by laws by posting at least one pic of a crappie so I can't complain. :cheers I am off and fishing on the 23rd, leaning towards fishing the morning of the 24th, am off and fishing on the 30th and plan to fish the 31st as well so I might have 4 days left. I'll catch a few for you.

Good luck George, give me a call and let me know if that spots still hot, I might slip away for a few hours one day.

Tex Pete, Is this kinda what you were talking about?? Cause they are the cats meow... seriously you wont be missing any short strikes with these

are those blades 2 tone?

silver willow

Many short strikes are behind hook,pulling tail.Haven't seen much different if the hook sticks them. I know everyone are going for those hooks but in brush they hang more with that wide gap. Everyone disagree with me on using a #6 and # 4 on a grub like a BGBS saying its too little, but someone forgot to tell those 5,000 fish this year, less hanging in brush

Still trying to get as good as yall here........ but nice fish! the bass's coloration is beautiful! and the crappie's pretty too!!

Nice Job, way to rip into em.

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Originally Posted by Percidae_Papermouth

Tex Pete, Is this kinda what you were talking about?? Cause they are the cats meow... seriously you wont be missing any short strikes with these

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Bennett,
Yep, that's what I made also. Only difference is that I used 50% colorado and 50% indiana blades. Not sure I'm in love with them yet, don't think I can fish them quite as slowly without hanging up. Good thing about the light wire sicle hooks I use is that you can bend the hook most times and get them back from a brush pile.

Mike

I have the regular ol teardrop blades too, and im here to tell ya they work.... Using the Chartruse horsehead with the Key Lime BGBS at Burnt Mills this past fall I caught 26 Crappie in 28 Consecutive casts. I usually dont have a problem snaging & losing jigs, but if I do I usually get em back....At BM usually its a stump, and if I can get to the back side of that stump I get my jig back......Now true Brushpiles like at buggs, and thick laydowns is usually a different story. But hey, IF YOUR NOT LOSING JIGS YA AINT CATCHING FISH! So I never mind tying a new one on......Plus I gotta thin the herd so I can keep buying new tackle hahaha If I never bought another thing pertaining to fishing, My tackle would still out live me..... Its getting ridiculous.... Ive got a problem.

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Its getting ridiculous.... Ive got a problem.

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Since you're making your own stuff, maybe you have a business opportunity, not a problem?

Its funny you said that, Ive been looking for some investors.;):D

I'd move "paying customers" to the top of that list! Runaway sales volume will signal the need for fresh capital.