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We fished Butchers Friday an had a couple dozen nice keepers up to a pound. They were on brush in 20-30fow that topped out at 8-15ft. The World Famous FishDoc Bucktail seemed to be the best bait and vertical jigging accounted for the most bites. Seems they movin to the creeks a little earlier than usual.
See ya Friday morning...Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdoc
Doc fished panhandle myself but nothing of any size went up into butchers looking for ya but obviously didnt
I wear camo when fishin on holiday w/e's....
Is it your summer time experience that it's a real challenge to catch crappie over 1lb? Of my last 533 crappie caught fishing 7 different bodies of water zero were at 1lb or more. It's been since July 6 since I have caught two that big and they only went 1lb 1oz and 1lb 2oz.
WTG Keith ,some good fish, hope you and Don get into them. Tap it's been longer than that for me but its been longer than that since I fish,long dry spell ,hope to do some starting next week if ok and not too hot,Harmon shots won,t let me be in much heat.
I have been finding same Tap but I have mostly just been finding spots not really fishing them the way I should. The bigger fish have been really deep (which is hard to make a good presentation) or at night. I am just waiting on the fish to start hitting the creeks again on buggs. If you find the deepest water thats where they are if you can get them to bite.
I saw your truck going up 58 Friday evening. Caught some on main channel brush piles Sunday. Spent most of the weekend Feeding and taking care of kids, grandkids and other visitors.Quote:
Originally Posted by fishdoc
[I saw him , not gonna post where but he seen me too in white Lowes boat, fished the brushpile you were on Thurs. only small ones .
I tried my favorite 2 BGBS yesterday and didn't get a bite. I then changed over to Gene's bait and caught 10 nice ones over a brush pile we put out last Thursday.
WT was 75.3*, fish were in 15 FOW about 8' down.
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Tap, yes, Its rare to catch many over a pound durin the summer period. my opinion, the big ones suspend an chase open water bait. I did catch a 16 inch, 2 pounder off a pile in Eastland the 1st wk of Aug., 25ft deep. My biggest ever was caught 28ft deep in Aug, 3 lb 12 oz. So it is possible, but as I said , rare. I have my best luck on bigguns in the summer up near the rivers, caught a 1 1/2 and a 1 3/4 on back to back cast up there the same wk I caught the biggun in Eastland. I plan to try trollin cranks in open water to check my theory out. slsbin, I seen you also, and thats all we caught there was dinks. had our best luck that day up Butchers.
Randy, I fed the family(extended version) Monday, caught a 24 1/2 inch walleye at Philpott yesterday, poured a couple hundred jig heads today an now I'm takin a break from tying a bunch of those World Famous FishDoc Bucktails for this w/e. I still gotta change line on a half dozen crappie rods, change hooks an add swivels an split rings to a bunch of Hopkins...its always sumthin!