Saturday-Buggs-64 crappie

Before I give my report I give you the best looking office chair ever made. :biggrin

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Now to the report. My favorite site, my Lund sitting pier side at the ramp at Eastland Creek, ready to head out.

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I stayed in Eastland all day long and while 64 crappie is the most I have caught in this creek, unfortunately, a lot of them were small. I did however get 5 that went 1lb or better with the biggest at 1lb 4oz.

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I also had 4 that were 15oz including the 13"er in this video which I could not believe was only 15oz.

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Early on I could only find them 15' deep in the brush. I had to drop my Wasshoppah into the brush and they loved pearl/chartreuse. I had some luck casting Cajun Cricket but had to get it down to 15' as well.

Later in the day I found some in water around 10'-12' deep and got them 6' deep casting Blue Ice. I even found two new brush piles of which one gave up two of my 1lb'ers within a minute of each other. I think I was only catching females and most looked to be spawned out with a few still have belly's on them. I did not catch any in water less than 10' deep.

I was up at 4:00 and got home at 9:30. It was a long day but fun. I let all the crappie go as I hate cleaning crappie that late at night. Water temp was 64-68 and the weather was down right nice. Lots of bass fishermen zipping around Eastland.

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Originally Posted by TapOut64

I was up at 4:00 and got home at 9:30. It was a long day

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Sounds like a typical fishing day for this time of year--the days will get longer. (Sleep is overrated.) :biggrin

Nice work George! Most of them have now spawned, so it's deep water fishing until next spring!

Thanks for report Tap, great pic's!

Way to go Tap. Great report and cool video. Cool pics of brush on your sounder. It is kinda strange how pale Buggs crappie seemingly are.

WTG George ,nice fish,great vidio ,boy wish I could do videos ,can,t hardly do pic,judging your retrive you were using a 1/16 or 3/32 jig hear? Again great post,keep it up . I hope to be well enough to go this week,tried last week but hurt too much

I was casting 1/16oz.

I forgot to post this snapshot. This is brush in water around 12' deep with a small school of crappie near it. Not a bite early in the day here but I got around a dozen later in the day.

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Nice catch and good video, thanks for sharing. Didn't you see Roy and his wife at Eastland?

Thanks for the post. Nice read

Oh Tap ,that is a good looking chair you made,wander if you could make 2 Dallas chairs for my boat,LOL but I do think they would be cool onmy boat and a Pitts on yours, I believe you would agree with at lease half of what I said, well that would be an improvement since most would not agree with that much,LOL ,again it looks good but I love to Kidd, oh I love your SI snap shot

Looks like ya had a fun day. In the video I heard the what I guess was the servos turning the trolling motor. Is that correct? I got to the point of turning off all electronics and trying to be quiet when looking for older smarter BIG fish.

Thanks for the great report. Sounds like a very nice day on the water.

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Good report, good catching, great chair. Do I sense a Lund renovation in the future?

great report nice chair

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Originally Posted by Flatwater

Looks like ya had a fun day. In the video I heard the what I guess was the servos turning the trolling motor. Is that correct? I got to the point of turning off all electronics and trying to be quiet when looking for older smarter BIG fish.

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Good point, having been underwater it's amazing what you can hear, trolling motors, feet sliding on the bottom of the boat and my favorite is a fart from someone sitting on the seat of an aluminum boat, allmost like a depth charge!

In my opinion the electric sonars do not hurt them ,nor a slow running TM ,it's the bump ,dropping things and so forth, if fish is 8 or more feet deep,I jig 1/2 of the time and caught plenty over top of them and never cut sonars off and may be 3 on at a time, I think he had it on slow and even though the motor inside it makes a noise ,it is not a sudden noise that would scare them,this is only my opinion and want be first ttime I was wrong ,just ask wife,LOL. Many disagree with me on this one through

Nice report Tap. I seen you fishing some brush we both know a little after 10:00AM. I then went to one of my favorite piles and could not get a bite. Figured you must have worked them over pretty good. Did not see you any more but your truck was still in the lot when I left. Nice looking fish, I think the one in the video would have weighted more.

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Originally Posted by Flatwater

In the video I heard the what I guess was the servos turning the trolling motor. Is that correct?

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My unit (Terrova) is a bit loud as it's 80lbs of thrust and it didn't help that my camera/phone was sitting right next to my trolling motor.

I can't quite figure out how it turns the shaft. In the parts drawing below you can see the small motor but the shaft is not connected to anything, it runs right through the center opening.

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I guess somehow, some way, when you go to turn the shaft something compresses and grips the shaft allowing it to be turned?

Looks like part # 370 is the servo motor that turns a small gear that engages part 380 a bigger gear that engages 435 that is on the 445 which is the clutch that turns the shaft. I had one and when I pushed the button it would try to hold me in place, fighting the wind and current. But all I heard was that thing going ERR ERR err err back and forth. My 2 cent is that a 2-3 lb crappie is 10 years old and has seen a lot, thats why still alive. We need every advantage we can get, reducing noise is one thing I try to do this time of year, the rest of the year the odds are to far in the fishs favor.

Yea, 445 must somehow squeeze the shaft, I just don't know how it does it.

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Originally Posted by Roy

Nice report Tap. I seen you fishing some brush we both know a little after 10:00AM. I then went to one of my favorite piles and could not get a bite. Figured you must have worked them over pretty good. Did not see you any more but your truck was still in the lot when I left. Nice looking fish, I think the one in the video would have weighted more.

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It's a real bummer that I didn't get to see you out on the water with that silly looking hat of yours. :biggrin

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Originally Posted by TapOut64

Yea, 445 must somehow squeeze the shaft, I just don't know how it does it.

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There's no compression between the shaft and housing. Part 415 is the motor-side of the union. It mates with the depth collar (part 305) which performs two functions. In addition to the traditional function of setting the motor depth, half of the mating end is cut away to match the cut-away upper end of Part 415. The parts diagram provides too little detail make much sense. Here's an image of the mating collar, but it's shown upside down. Installed on the motor shaft, the slotted end faces downward, not upward. When the motor turns, the base half of the union drives the depth collar, and the collar is a tight fit to the shaft.
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It appear to me that 410 through 440 that shalt goes through these and motor and gears 380 and 385 reduce to turn gear 435 on shalt . Gear 380 and 385 are not in shalt but in box that motor is attach to. May be wrong without description of parts

Sorry corker ,I was on taps page and somehow it jump over here, I notice it had change but didn't,t pay much attention to it

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Originally Posted by Corker

There's no compression between the shaft and housing. Part 415 is the motor-side of the union. It mates with the depth collar (part 305) which performs two functions. In addition to the traditional function of setting the motor depth, half of the mating end is cut away to match the cut-away upper end of Part 415. The parts diagram provides too little detail make much sense. Here's an image of the mating collar, but it's shown upside down. Installed on the motor shaft, the slotted end faces downward, not upward. When the motor turns, the base half of the union drives the depth collar, and the collar is a tight fit to the shaft.
Attachment 124252

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Duh, you are right. I was overlooking the obvious. Mystery solved.

You won't overlook that connection if you lower the motor without dropping the shaft down into the mated position. Sooner or later, the collar will work its way around and fall into place like a sledge hammer.