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Caught 35 crappie, 1 yellow perch and 1 bass. Spiderrigging. Got to meet BHGammon today in person. He is a nice gentleman and I enjoyed talking to him today. Fished from 12 till just before dark. Would have caught more if it had not taken 2 hours to find the fish. After that, it was on. Had a great time. Nice to finally meet you in person Bruce and thanks for the little tool you gave me. It will come in handy.CF
Sounds good to me. Nothing wrong with 35 fish. Congrats.
Nice to finally meet you in person Bruce and thanks for the little tool you gave me. It will come in handy.CF[/QUOTE]
It was great to meet you too. I hit 3 in-a-row out from the boardwalk and stuck with that area. Took home a limit out of the 30 to 40 I caught.
Turned out to be a perfect day in every way. I hung around the ramp for awhile hoping to see how well you did, but I wanted to get off the road before dark.
Your PM box is full.
B-
Bruce,
I just missed you at the ramp. I saw you heading out as I was coming up the canal. I worked a 100 yard stretch I found further up the creek that was producing. Blue ice BGBS and my purple and green shad stingers were the colors that worked best. Pink and white and key lime pie also produced.CF
Mr Pierce was killing them in the same area with minnows, but he and I were culling the smaller fish. I think jigging was producing bigger fish, I had minnows but never used them; too much fuss when your catching all you want on jigs. He had 16 poles out, to my 3. Glad you got into them good too. Couldn't have been a better day. B-
Glad you had some fun. Gotta love Blue Ice.
Saw your 223 post. Great catch, you worked for them. Bet they wore you out, and you slept good that night. B-Quote:
Originally Posted by TapOut64
I use to love to go by the pig pen. The aroma made me homesick for the times I was young. I think they had removed all the pigs the last time I was down there. It was to the left when you came out of the ditch.
Glad there were some crappie left in Pembroke after Saturday. I put my boat in there to go rock fishing and rode up the creek just to see what was going on and I saw 6 boats crappie fishing between the queen st bridge and the hwy 17 bridge. A lot of pressure on that little creek.
CF,
Glad you got to go catch a nice mess of fish. My buddy called me Saturday to let me know the guys he works with have been doing pretty good. Of course, I was at the ball park again. He told me he thought they were fishing Pembroke. That being said, Baseball is over and now I can fish again. Hope to go fish Bennets Creek next weekend. They ought to be pretty thick up there bout now. How deep a water were the fish in and how deep down you catching um? I saw a few boats in Hertford, but have yet to talk to anybody to try to get a report. Seems like when I head to town I just miss em. -TootsieRoll
I fished Hertford 2 times in the last 2 weeks. It has been improving and what I have caught have all been nice fish.Quote:
I saw a few boats in Hertford, but have yet to talk to anybody to try to get a report.
Last trip I got 11 around the RR bridge and they were about 5 ft down. It should be improving with last weeks cold snap.
Go get'em, B-
Fishing 5 to 6 feet deep over 10 feet of water. Heard they were catching good in Bennets last week. sounds like a little bit going on everywhere.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by tootsieroll
There won't be many crappie left after this week I'm sure. Most fish now are around the 8 inch mark. You have to hunt hard and use jigs to get bigger ones now. That gang that is there now won't leave until they clean them out. Heard 500 got taken out of Yeopim last week. I'll just go ahead and scratch that place off my list. They wipe it out every year in mid November.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by 3weight
There were about ten boats out there Sunday.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
Sure is a shame but I guess I can't be greedy and expect then to all be there for me. Think I'm going to concentrate my efforts on the Bertie waterways this fall and winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
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Originally Posted by 3weight
Probably a good play. Pembroke will be like last year. By Thanksgiving it will be wiped out. I used to do well there until the end of January. Not now. Have to go further from home in the winter now. It is forcing me to find new places though and that is a good thing.CF
One thing I will say about the boys from the west of us, they are persistent. They find the fish and hammer em. I know when the white perch were biting pretty good in Hertford, they were fishing 3 or 4 times a week and leaving with coolers full each time. i took off one Thursday to fish and if I hadn't gotten there before daylight I wouldn't have had anywhere to park at the ramp. Two hours later, there were 8 boats withing 50 or 60 yards of me. Me personally, I don't want to clean that many fish. But it is fun catching em.
Yeah and what makes it worse is that the Roanoke and Cashie are still wiped out from Irene. So that is two places they usually fish that are not much good. Puts a lot more pressure over on this side.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by tootsieroll
Drove over the bridge this morning. Looks like Pembroke is getting absolutely hammered today. Too bad I'm working and can't join in on what might be the last warm day for a while.
Yep. I went to Bayside at lunch time and there were 10 boat trailers parked there. They know what they are doing. they will keep on until they catch every last one of them. Me and a buddy of mine had already decided last weekend that we were going someplace else on our next trips because of that crap. They have been hitting it all week.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by 3weight
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Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
CF- Your PM box is full.Quote:
the Roanoke and Cashie are still wiped out from Irene
Talked to a fellow that hit the Cashie last Wednesday, and he feels that crappie have started to move into the creek. He isn't much of a talker so I'm going to see what's going on there within the next week, weather permitting. I have also heard that Conaby Creek near Plymouth is producing some decent fish.
That is good to hear. I have cleared some room out in my inbox.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by bhgammon
CF,
I would like to tell you that I had a report worthwhile for you from Bennets but I would be lying. I got to the ramp and the duckweed was so thick you could walk across it. Made a loop in the parking lot and headed back to Hertford. Got the boat in the water and my cranking battery was dead. Swapped a battery from the trolling motor and then my motor would turn over but not fire. Guess that's what happens when an old motor sits up for a while. Didn't feel like messing with it so I just hooked my two good batteries back up to the trolling motor and fished left and right of the boat ramp. Lo and behold, I found some fish. Little bit of everything. Crappie, white perch, yellow perch, bass, rock, bream and shell crackers. Caught 6 crappie, 3 of which were tween 10 and 11 inches. The suprise of the day was the white perch. I prolly caught about 50 or so. And they were, for the most part, nice big fat fish. A lot more nicer fish than we caught this summer. Most of wm were over 10". The wind was a little rough and had debris floating all in the water. It made for a lot of work, but the fish kept a piss poor day from getting any worse. All in all, I can't complain, caught plenty of fish and never burned any gas in the boat.
Way to turn it around TR. I had pretty much the same thing happen to me Sunday before last when I went. Had just enough juice to work tilt. went to hit the key and one little bump is all I could get. No jumper cables, trolling batteries were charges so I just slid the boat off the trailer and headed out in the creek. Had a buddy that was there bring me a jump pack and let me keep it the rest of the day. It worked great and I'm glad he let me keep it because it had to be used 3 more times that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by tootsieroll
Nice catch of fish. It seems like this time of year, if You find white perch, they are huge. What size was the yellow perch? any size to the shell crackers? rock? How deep were they out from the ramp? that is a deep hole to be catching fish? they must have been suspended.CF
"What size was the yellow perch? any size to the shell crackers? rock? How deep were they out from the ramp? that is a deep hole to be catching fish? they must have been suspended.CF"
The yellow perch were actually on the small side. Real small except for one 10"er but a long ways away from what I usually catch in that area. Most of the fish were either on the point to the left of the ramp or just off the breaks near the two channel markers where I have told you I usually fish. I can't really tell you the actual depth, cause with a dead battery I was fishing blind. No fishfinder, side imaging or GPS. Had to use landmarks when I hooked a fish to make another pass but it seemed pretty reliable so I think a decent school was there. But judging from past experience, I would say 8 to 12 FOW. Fished 4 to 6 feet deep. The shell crackers weren't huge but were decent. Big enough to eat for sure. I kept a handful for the guy I carry fish to. The crappy I caught were in the deeper of the water closer to the break around some stumps I have marked before. The rock won't but 16". White, orange or red, all with chartreuse tails seemed to be the best colors. Especially the orange/chart and red/chart. they were hungry for sure. Had some hard strikes, not a lot of pecking.
Hopefully I can get back out again this weekend. Leaving this afternoon to head to Myrtle Beach for Thanksgiving. Family has been there since Saturday. But if all goes well, I will come home Friday to carry the mini mes hunting and then do a little fishing Sunday. Got a lot of work to do to the boat as soon as I can though. Don't know how long the fish will hang around close to the ramp with all this cold weather. One's thing for sure, it felt good to be back on the water. Tootsie Roll
Have a safe trip TR. Thanks for the report. I'm hoping to get out on Saturday too. Going to Bath on Friday to visit Wife's Grandmother then hopefully everything is a go For Saturday.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by tootsieroll
Dang Ed I/T gets No pressure in the winter months till the y/p move in.
Are crappie in there now on through the yellow perch?CFQuote:
Originally Posted by jim.b
The crappie never leave. I've done good all through the fall and all winter. Now I stick to N/W river. Saves on the gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
10/4 Jim. Thanks for the tip. the way things are looking, I will be spending more time this year on the Alligator and North Rivers.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by jim.b