Hand to Hand Combat/Lake Conway 9-10-13

Ever start the day thinking your going to lose the battle? That's what happen to me today when at 11"00AM I only had three fish in my box. I made a move and patterned the fish in tight clusters of trees and stobs with lots of shade. I was so far up in the bush today it was like hand to hand combat with the crappie pulling them out of those thickets. Fighting spider webs, spiders in the trees, limbs poking ya. They were dug in deep in their fox holes today Fishing a slab crappie out of the bush so thick you could hardly move your rod left or right to get them out. Lots of times I had to pull the pole back towards me vertically and hand reel em in. You have not lived until your under a Cypress Tree and a big Arse snake comes falling out of a tree hits your shoulder and thankfully bounced into the water. Me and the crappie were duke'in it out today let me tell ya. Purple and Chart with a 1/32 orange head with black eyes was my main weapon today in deep cover in 5-7 feet deep. I love vertical jigging. Tight Lines.

Only 39 megs left of the extra 40:Rofl Keep it up big fellow. Awesome story and pics.

Great catch....you can keep all them snakes!

I just almost came up there today, it a good thing I didn't. I hate to walk on water

Good ones Russ, and good job on clearing the Green fish out of the lake. Next time we go we need to fill a couple coolers with 'em.

Good job, dude! I always keep one eye on the tree limbs this time of year! Those suckers will drop in the boat with you. :yikes Nice mess of fish there, Russ. Thanks for the post and the pics. :highfive

That green trout would make some good tomato fertilize !!!!!lol good job! !!!!!

Nice mess of fish. I sure hate fishing around snakes, but if the fish are biting it's not near as bad.

Good catch Russ. Can you get those boys to play with you in the boat?

Oh yea how big was that bass?

Great catch. They taste better when you work for em like that?

No snake pixs, good catch

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Originally Posted by mb4850

Oh yea how big was that bass?

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4.5lbs...I usually let then go that big but I was mad at em yesterday after one broke off my favorite jig head. I like a bass cat or bream fillet with my crappie everynow and then.

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No snake pixs, good catch

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The last thing you want to do when a snake falls out of tree onto your shoulder is take a picture of it... trust me on this. This snake used my shoulder to cata-polt it's self right off the side of my shoulder over the side of the boat and into the lake. In those few short seconds my body contorted in ways i never thought I was capable of...Then i thought am I BITTEN...checked my self good....felt no pain so it was back to fishing. Happened very fast and skeered the holy crap outta myself.

Nice fish CP. Put that bass on the grill. Little butter and garlic.

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all that and you kept the bass?

Nice Mess!!!! You forgot my personal favorite the Red Wasp nest as big as dinner plates.

Those bass make fine fish tacos and as Black Fish said grill'em and you will keep them too.

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Originally Posted by blueducklane

all that and you kept the bass?

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Nice mess cp

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all that and you kept the bass?

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MMMMMM Me lik'em Bass. Ate a many of them

Nice catch Russ

Nice catch Russ. Sounds like you really had to work for them. I had 2 snakes fall in my boat one night frog gigging and I pretty much let them have that boat until I could swim it to the bank and figure out what we had going on lol.

It was hot out but luckly I had none your troubles.:Rofl

That's what I love about them cypress trees! You never know what you will pull out from under it or what you will know out of the top of it! Good mess of fish Russ!

Nice mess Russ. I love fishing that thick stuff. Anybody can set the hook pulling but few pulling back. 1 reason I use those cheap BnM reels is because they are going to get wet. Hope to get you down here one year in a MS river oxbow fishing some iron wood in waders.

Russ, you sure know how to make a slow day exciting. Really surprised there wasn't a big ole wasp nest you could have stirred up too. Probably about the time the snake bailed out of that tree would have been good.rotfl

Hmmm Lets see Wasp nest or Snake which is worst to run across in a cypress tree. Well if the snake isn't a cotton mouth and dont bite me. I will take the snake every time. But the snake get's the nod on skeering the bejesus outta ya no matter what type it is. It's amazing how fast a snake can be. He was off my shoulder and outta that boat lickty split. I think he was as scared of me as I was of him. I aint complaining tho.

Way to go CP!!