AgriHawg & CrappiePro Double Limit On Dardenelle - Friday 1/4/13

Met with CrappiePro yesterday morning and followed him to Dardenelle. We launched the Dark Angel, made the cold run to a honey hole and started getting set up. We were catching fish before we could get all our poles out! CrappiePro tied up with a big ole whisker fish almost immediately. Wound up being a nice 6 or 7 pound cat. The fishing was consistent all day with CrappiePro keeping the Dark Angel over productive water. We also caught more Kentucky's than you can shake a stick at. Had to move they were so thick at one point. Towards the end of the day I snatched a rod up to set the hook and CrappiePro thought I was hung on a snag....wound up being another 6 or 7 pound cat.

Fish were biting so good when we left, we caught two nice crappie as we were trying to get our poles out of the water...had to do a little culling. Everyone else seemed to have a tough time of it on Dardenelle, but we managed a good double limit of nice crappie, plus a lot of "bonus" fish. That CrappiePro sure knows what he's doing.

Thanks CrappiePro for taking me fishing and teaching me a few of your tricks! Although at first I was concerned that this was a thinly veiled attempt to get me out on the water and throw me overboard in retaliation for the "elf video"! Hope we get the chance to go after the crappie again.

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Sounds like you guys had a great trip.

Good haul from the pits guys


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Nice! Great trip guys.

"Although at first I was concerned that this was a thinly veiled attempt to get me out on the water and throw me overboard in retaliation for the "elf video"!" - AgriHawg

That's funny stuff !! :Rofl

Nice trip !! The ole Pro has definitely got em' figured out !!

Hey Jerry it was great fishing with you the other day man. I love pulling em out of 50-60 feet deep. They most all feel big and you know its a crappie when they stop wiggeling at 20 feet. LOL. I have some other pics ill try to put on here of you...runn8ing into sizing problems. Man it was a blast fishing with you and SkiTrip the last two days. And I hope to do it again soon. Thanks for going with me...and i know a couple of C.comers who now believe in going deep in the winter. LOL Tight Lines

Looks like the barometric pressure did not stop the deeper bite in the pits. Most everyone else where was not so lucky. Agrihawg did they blow up when pulled up ?

Nice catch guys!!


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Nimrod the keeper fish were a little bug-eyed when they made it to the top!

Wasn't that a great day on the water!!! :crazy:

Nice fishing guys it look like the pits payed off

That one on the left had a few battle scars. Them trash fish sure are tasty.

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Originally Posted by ski trip

Wasn't that a great day on the water!!! :crazy:

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Absolutely!!! :cheers2

Those fish were so deep that word didn't get to them that the bite was off. I almost went to the pits but made a quick decision at the ouita junction to go back where it had been so good the past week. Can't win them all. I remember when you first started fishing Dardanelle, you found it hard to believe that we were fishing 25 feet deep, now look at you.

Nice Pics Jerry...I think one of the things I like about deep water crappie...Is you dont lose a good fish at the boat... they just lay on top as if to say net me... you got me. LOL

Yep Ray make sure you use at least two 1/8th oz heads there to get down to them or you will be waiting till Next Christmas to get down to them. I even put on a #3 split shot inbetween the jigs to help get em down. Have caught several doing that in the past.

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Originally Posted by CrappiePro

Nice Pics Jerry...I think one of the things I like about deep water crappie...Is you dont lose a good fish at the boat... they just lay on top as if to say net me... you got me. LOL

Yep Ray make sure you use at least two 1/8th oz heads there to get down to them or you will be waiting till Next Christmas to get down to them. I even put on a #3 split shot inbetween the jigs to help get em down. Have caught several doing that in the past.

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I have been using a #4 when deeper than 15 feet. It just speeds things up and doesn't seem to bother the fish.

a 1oz bell sinker on a double minner rig will get there pretty quick too !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!