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pretty nice crappie i caught on the cadron this evening. exactly 18" . the only "big" fish i caught this evening. usually if i catch one like this then i will catch 4 or 5 more. that didnt happen tonight, but then again i really dont know squat about crappie fishing so go figure. caught 17 all together not even half were eaters.
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18" crappie, WOW,,thats a monster!! Did you weigh her? I'd love to know what it weighed!
That is a real PIG!!!!! Congrats on a great fish. Looks like a wall hanger to me!!!!!
BRM
Did ya weigh it?
BRM
no didnt weigh it, i turned it loose. not a real fat fish. i dont think it was near as heavy as some are at that lenght. we have caught them bigger than that in the cadron. i can probably dig up a few pics although i usually dont take any pics or even measure. i know we have caught several that are longer than a 5 gal bucket is tall.
cotton bowl time for now.
That's a hog! That kills me you did not weigh that one!
Nice fish whatever it weighed
Yeah it don't take long to get a mess when they are that big! I'd rather have the 11" to 13" size though. You take about 18 or 20 that size and you got some meat.
here is one up next to a 5 gallon bucket that my little boy caught.
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...debsrod141.jpg
WOW Nice Fish... Im going to haft to get up that creek and try to nail some of those. WTG...
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Originally Posted by venomcustomrods
Beautiful pics of your son and those monster slabs. That first one of him on the bucket would be an awesome picture for the Crappie.com calendar. I hope that next year that you think about submitting that pic for the calendar. That's my choice for the cover!!
Shallow back type water lakes seem to be the best over those deep dead sea type lakes. Always thought that when I was bass fishing and now I'm seeing it with the crappie too. I guess less places for them to hide in shallow water lakes.
here was some more cadron pigs that my boy caught. i think he caught 7 and a bream and i had 13. the smallest we caught that day was 17 1/4".
http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...er/8-17286.jpg
All I can say is WOW! thanks for sharing.
Somebody get this man a scale!!! Nice fish!!!
where is cadron creek ????????????????
If it is the one I'm thing about, it's west of Conway. Runs outa the North.Quote:
Originally Posted by MEATGETTER
the part of the cadron that i usually fish is near wooster. there is a boat launch at shaw bridge and one on hwy 25 between conway and wooster. i dont use the shaw bridge ramp due to the thefts that take place there. i also sometimes launch at the cadron settlement park on the arkansas river and head upstream to the confluence of the arkansas river and the cadron creek.
there are 2 forks- the cadron and the east fork of the cadron. shaw bridge is on the cadron and the hwy 25 ramp is on the east fork. the 2 forks meet about halfway between the hwy 25 ramp and shaw bridge. the creek originates near heber springs and more of a typical ozark stream , but when you get down towards wooster the creek travels along rice fields and bottom land where the creek gets a little deeper and the bottom and the banks are mud instead of rock. i would say that from hy 25 to the confluence the river averages 6ft and from shaw bridge to the confluence is probably 10-12 foot. there is about 25 - 30 foot of water at the confluence. from there to the ar river it runs anywhere from 12 foot up to some 20 and 30 foot deep holes the closer you get to the river. the depth is quickly changed by rain fall or from the ar river backing up. creek has mud bottom, lots of log jams and stumps. a few small secondary creeks.
went back out today for a little bit and caught another big one about a half inch shorter than yesterdays but it was the only fish i caught. i just couldnt find them or atleast couldnt get them to bite.
That's some huge fish
Very nice fish! Boy it would be fun to catch a few of those!
Thanks for sharing.
Man, those are some great fish. Is your son available for guide service? LOL!:fish
That's what you call Slabs!!! Thanks for sharing.
Back 25 years ago, i lived in Greenbrier and fished it often. Greenbrier Creek there close to where both forks meet was good in the early spring. The creek that runs in just upstream from Shaw bridge back to the west was a great area this time of the year. My neighbor back then was awesome on the Cadron. I wonder if he is still alive? At that time I was heavy into bass fishing and wished I had learned more about the Cadron as well as Lake Conway.
That fish wont fit in a 5 gallon bucket. Nice hog!
That's a hoss!
Great to just catch one or two that size but to get several might be dangerous for me. That might cause me to quit my job and fish all the time...or at least until the money runs out. :biggrin
some of you boys that know how to catch crappie just need to come up and go out with me and teach me a thing or two and maybe we can catch a few biguns
Don't know about teachin you much but would try if givin a chance. How about swaping trips if you'd like to fish Nimrod. We catch numbers but few real hogs. I've fished with alot of good fishermen on this site if ya need references. LOL LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by venomcustomrods
Put me down as a reference. Fished with Nimrod on his home lake (Nimrod) and the man can catch fish! :yikes It's not a matter of whether, but how many and what size do you want to keep. Treat yourself to a day on the water with Nimrod if you have the chance. Thumbs Up
I would be willing to trade a trip with you here on Greers. From now until May we can longline troll jigs then as the water warms we can troll cranks.
sounds like a plan to me! cant promise you a big fish on the cadron but we might get lucky. heck i cant even promise i can put you on fish! if i went out there 5 times i probably wouldnt catch crappie but once out of the 5 times but when i do there is usually some good fish. i figure that someone that knows how to locate them would stand a better chance than me of catching them big ones. i just get lucky and find them now and then. how i have found them before is i would be out catfishing and while waiting on a bite i will throw some jigs and get lucky. have also looked for underwater log jams on tight bends in the creek. seems like the colder the better for them jams. another good spot after a rain is where there is water draining out of the rice fields into the creek. toss your jig in there and u might catch a crappie, bass, white bass, catfish, drum....just about anything, but they are usually stacked up.
Nimrod, i have seen that you have your boat down right now, so if you get the itchin to go just hollar and i will take you out on the cadron or the river. i have a 21 foot boat that will run in 6" of water with a HB color 2D, gps and down imaging, and an ipilot TM . that should be all we need.
Creekslick, thank you for the offer and i will take you up on that. you guys dont even have to trade a trip with me, just come and lets figure out these cadron crappie is ok with me, although i would like to fish your lakes also. i really think there is a record crappie in the cadron because i have caught several big ones but the only one i had weighed was about 10 or 12 years ago and it was a monster that we weighed on a meat scale at a convinence store at 4lbs and 1 oz. the ones i have caught recently werent as heavy as that fish but they were big.
Whats the best way to get on the creek coming from Maumelle? How are the ramps? I have a pretty good sized boat but only 2wd truck.
come to conway, get off at the 65 exit, go back under the over pass and take the old morrilton hwy (hwy 64) about a quarter mile to hwy 25. take 25 towards wooster. you will go a few miles and pass lake beaver fork then another mile to the cadron creek. the ramp sucks. you can use it on high water but when the water level is normal your better off to put in next to the ramp in the gravel. i usually am in my 2wd truck with a 21' boat and have not got stuck. there is another ramp on the other side of wooster that i have used many times but a lot of people have had their trucks broke into there. if you put in at hwy 25 be careful navigating the creek. the water is usually less than 5' until you get quite a ways from the bridge . try to stay in the channel and slow down on the tight bends because there is a lot of stumps under the surface if you get out of the narrow channel. i havent really ever hit anything but i have sure looked out of the side of the boat and seen stumps just under the waters surface.
another notible mention is that this creek rises with just minor rain. i bet it was up 4' after yesterdays rain. easier to launch in the high water but there is a lot of debris floating and the water is really stained.