I got to go for a couple of hours this morning at our local pothole (Lake Monticello). Caught this Mama in 52 FOW fishing 51 ft deep!!! Thought I would practice my "longarm" technique for the pic, LOL.......
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I got to go for a couple of hours this morning at our local pothole (Lake Monticello). Caught this Mama in 52 FOW fishing 51 ft deep!!! Thought I would practice my "longarm" technique for the pic, LOL.......
Nice!
That is a hawg, for sure. Congrats.
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Wow! Congrats. :cheers2
Saaaweeeeeettt!!
Long arm technique. Lol. Like it.
Nice
NICE Fish!!!! Congrats
Wow, that's crazy !! I'm impressed. Couple of questions come from this though:
1. What made you fish 50+ fow ?
2. What were using ? More specifically how heavy of a jig head ?
3. Were you using a leader tied off to the anchor rope ?
Good job, that one would have eluded me for sure. I'd have never even given him the opportunity to bite. Guess I'll have to remember to look deep on high pressure days like this morning was.
Nice feesh. I bet it's air bladder blew out. Lol
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Yea, she was pretty Bug-Eyed when I got her up. I hung one that felt much bigger than this but she got off before I could get her to the top. I was using a 1/32 oz white roadrunner with a Bobby Garland Bleeding Shad.......used 1/2 oz weight a foot above the RR. Just find the fish then concentrate on keeping your lines vertical while staying above them.....can be tricky in a lot of wind with 6-8 rods that deep, LOL. FYI, the Crappie are getting harder and harder to find in Lake Monticello, which used to be an outstanding wintertime Crappie lake. Could get a limit in an hour 3-4 years ago but I only got 2 fish in the boat this morning. I heard a rumor that grass carp had been put into the lake recently and that there is no longer any grass on the bottom. We have used fish finders as well as an underwater camera for years to find Crappie in crystal clear Lake Monticello but now have a really hard time finding any.....the population really seems to be less than a tenth of what it was several years ago.....
Thats one heck of a fish even long armin it
nice fish steve !!! the florida bass has taken care of the crappie !!!!!
Nice fish!!!
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My guess is the FL bass ate them too. Now where did you find that deep of water in Monticello?? Last time my and a friend was down there bassin in the Spring the deepest water I thought we'd found was on the old fence line, standing tree top timber that goes in a straight line across the lake and seems like that was only around 30ish?? We found our bass that day in somebody's front yard, literally! If you know the lake you'll know where I'm talking about, their well house was a fish magnet also, or what looked to be the well house.
As for fish numbers I also didn't remember seeing any crappie stocked in Monticello off the stocking reports I got the other day. From what everyone said that lake has some Hugh bass in it though and I'd say that's where the crappie went. We had a few 3-4LB fish that day but it was post spawn already:mad:
I've caught them as deep as 45 FOW in Ouachita. When those water temps get real cold they for sure will go deep. I love catching them deep like that vertical jigging, and when it's good it can be awesome fishing. Nice photo.
I used to fish lake Monticello back when I lived in fountain hill. I think if you put in at hunger run boat ramp the deep water is just south of the ramp. I remember it being 60 fow right there off the West Bank about 150 yards or so from ramp. In January I kid you not there would be 50-60 boats stacked in there me included. This was 8 years ago last time I fished it.
I tried that area you are talking about just out from the ramp but never saw a fish. Caught these about halfway to the spillway pipe and about 250 yds off the West bank on the flats. The Crappie were real scattered and couldn't find more than 3-4 together at one time on the Humminbird. 3-4 years ago they would be stacked up and the fish alarm would go so crazy I would have to turn it off. I'm hoping as the water gets colder they will congregate better so we can start getting decent limits. From what I have been told, Lake Monticello is not the Bass lake it once was either! I also noticed that LM was not included in the stocking reports the other day.
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Originally Posted by Catahoula06
Sounds like its been fished out. Might need to give it a break for awhile unless you just gotta be the guy that catches the last one there. ;-)
Go eagle hunting instead.
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Great catch steve. I talked with a fisheries biologist and was told that they dont typically stock crappie once they have been stocked as they take care of themselves. I dont know how valid that statement is but thats what i was told.
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Nice fish Steve...WTG!!!
Then I'm guessing the reason they put so many in Conway is fishing pressure?Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
Nice crappie long arm or not!
I know Lake Monticello has been fished hard over the years and I always wondered how there was any fish left in it with all the crappie coming out of it. If you are having any trouble finding crappie this time of year then there has been a drastic reduction in the population. I remember catching bream, bass and crappie in that 60 fow. Seemed all the fish went deep during December, January, and Febuary. I remember you had to keep what ever you caught because the fishes stomachs would be pooched out of their mouths and eyes popped out. I think they would need to restock it with crappie. I wonder if that old house can still be seen in the lake?
52 FOW...........Wow. Only one or was there more?
I spent a lot of time just riding around with the TM looking at the Humminbird and getting a lay of the landscape so to speak. I caught one smaller Crappie and hung a really nice one that got off. I'm thinking next trip will be better......we'll see, LOL!
Nice crappie Steve. LM has been going down hill the last couple of years. I think AGFC have really neglected L Monticello. It needs more fertilization and stocking.
You sure do have a long arm. Congrads.
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Thanks Don ! ! ! I been practicing, LOL!!
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Originally Posted by DRPEPPER
That is a pig! Congrats!