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You'll be glad to know We bombed out today.White Flag Icon It was windy and cold . Thought I'd try my stakebeds in Nimrod as everyone seems to think spawn about over here. Cliff and I managed 7 and lost 2 keepers along with a Catfish today. Was shocked to find very few little ones even moved out on deeper structure yet? The ones we caught appeared spawned out and poor as a snake. Hope it gets better soon or I may go broke driving to Dardanelle.:yikes
Sometimes its good to hear that you guys are human too. :biggrin
But I would a whole lot rather have heard that you caught a boat load!
Me too. I am waiting for the Crappiepalooza to begin over there.
Amen on the going broke driving up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Last week fish were hitting in buckbrush. It is usual for them to move to nearest drop off or cover after spawn and or water drop. But seems like nothing has been the normal or usual this spring..:twocentsQuote:
Originally Posted by Cmj
I probably can count the days I have not fished in last 30 days on one hand.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rookie40
Man I hate to hear a groan man cry!!!!!! :Rofl:Rofl
It did take us the better part of the day yesterday to find em and if the finder was any indication of how many were still there they didn't bite very well what was there. 10-12 FOW though seems to be spot on right now. After this cold snap we are about to get they may move back up on the banks to spawn again???? Just kidding there but this has been a weird year and the ones we caught yesterday sure tasted good tonight:tongue.
We been wear'n them out most everyday on Dardanelle. Caught several limits last week off banks at Nimrod but deeper water bite or lack of has us puzzled . But if it don't change it may get tougher with this major cold front and wind.
I'm wondering if that last full moon we had all night might have shut the day time bite down?? I heard an old crappie fisherman say once that on those full moon nights a crappie having eyes on top of it's head can skylight pods of bait fish all night long much better and they will feed on full moon nights all night long at times??? I know bass fishing I like to throw willow leaf bladed black spinnerbaits on moon lit nights a lot.
We used dull Colorado blades with black/ purple skirts back when I night fished Conway. That vibration on the Colorado seemed to get more strikesQuote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
Man if this was skeeters post it would read spanked em!!! 7 is not bad for that boy, you just think you had a bad day it could have been worse , a big ole goose egg is a bust!! Lol!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Well not everyone lives on a top crappie lake I bet if you fished a lot of these crappie water around southwest arkNsas you wouldn't do any better lot of good fisherman around here that aren't catching them either no need to talk about anyone on here show some class !!!
Hey Cmj how do I make that popcorn icon :)
:popcorn
A guy catches 9000 dinks a year out of a lake that has 9 million dinks in it and he thinks its ok to tell people how to fish and what they can use. Then poke fun at em pfffft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Geagle81
I've said it before men, I'd hope we can all call ourselves men on here....If you live near good crappie waters feel fortunate. I've got family around that blue mtn lake and I've carried countless stringers of fish up off the pettie jean river with family over the years so I know they are there. My In-laws live over near Pine Creek Lake in OK so I know it has good fish numbers also but it's a drive to get there too. I've lived in this area all my life (Dequeen/Mena) area so I know all too well how these lakes perform also. We find em sometimes in the Spring but it don't last forever. Last year we did find em later up into May still pretty shallow. Most years once it gets hot that deep brush will find em usually but rarely, very rarely do you catch over say 20 or 25 between 2 guys. Course those will be all keepers, 11 or 12"+ fish using minners but jigs will catch a few too. I'd say 8-15 fish per trip is more likely. My dads not going to move I know that so we worked hard this Winter to brush the lakes around here to enjoy time with our dads, I'd rather enjoy the fishing with my dad anyways.
Now that Pine Creek over in OK is prolly about like Nimrod Lake, lots of little ones and getting somewhat bigger especially this time of the year, the spawn time. Those 18 we had other day over there made a nice mess of fish, some bigger fillets to be had. I only posted the 6 or 7 bigger ones as I had cleaning all to myself and it was getting dark quick. We prolly tossed least half that number or more back for being too little. Still wish I'd carted about 100 or 200 of those back across the state line to populate our home waters back this Winter but we never got a chance to do it and air bladders from deeper fish create a problem doing that also. Glad to see the G&F stock Dequeen with a bunch of lil ones though.
Not all lakes are created equal though know that.
Sorry guys not trying to poke fun at skeeter more to poke fun at nimrod for having a bad day, we all have bad days just bad luck seems to fallow skeeter more than most, instead of driving all the way to Oklahoma I would drive to some if the better lakes in the state
I like to catch dinks. I like to catch slabs. I don't like catching nothing, but worse than that, I don't like not getting to fish. I don't remember the last time I was skunked, but I have come within a dink and a half of being skunked a time or two.
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Originally Posted by geagle81
I wish I could learn how to long arm those little dinks hes catching to make them look like 2 pounders like he did them last ones he posted did. lol
Well I have In-Laws which live on the lake in OK and it's not but a lil over an hour over there as we live close to the state line (Dequeen ain't but like 8-10 miles from the line). Notice I laid mine on a board to take the picture. As for picture taking if you add an object in the picture to reference size by that eliminates the long arm type shots. For instance your foot or a water bottle. I'd rather make a little longer drive to better crappie lake than waste time some other place but that's just me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappie Greg