Gave the crappie a break and hammered some redears

My dad wanted to get some crickets and try our old redear spots on White Oak Lake near Camden. We started around 4:00 or so. There were a few, but not really stacked up yet. We brought back 12 big redears, 5 nice sized bluegills, 2 crappie (yes, on crickets with a bream hook) and 1 catfish. Dad and I had a good time and that's what's important.

I'm still hooked up to my boat; he wants to go back tomorrow morning so that's what we'll do.

Good luck to all the gobbler hunters tomorrow. Me? I'll be brimming with Pops! GTT

Great times !

Good trip!

Sounds fun to me. Go put Pops on some fish.

I have chose bream over turkey tomorrow. Good luck.

Where's the pics good story

It got dark on me. I will try to post some pics tomorrow. Redears are pretty fish, almost as pretty as a big ole paper mouth crappie. Hope we pick up some tomorrow. GTT

Speaking of...I killed a turkey over there close to that lake once upon a time after I finally figured out the first one I was calling to was a tame one in a pen across the road from a food plot nearby...lol...pretty place...glad you had a good time.

They were not biting today! I think we caught 5 keeper bluegills. No redears, crappie, or cats this morning. I just can't understand it........beautiful day, not much wind, seemed like the perfect morning. Can't make them bite, though. Will definitely try again, though.
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Here are two from yesterday, right out of the ice chest, cold & slick. GTT

Them are some t***y p****r bream, dude! wow.

If bream were the size of bass, it'd take E piano wire to land 'em.

Yeah, those redears were large and in charge! Not real sure why the crappie were there, though. We have never caught crappie there before. We have caught bigger redears there, though. They were in 4 feet depth on top of two underwater mounds that my dad and I found 30+ years ago before the age of depth finders. Back in the early 80's, White Oak Lake was drawn way down so that people could repair their boathouses and to kill lily pads, or so I've been told. Anyway, we noticed that there were 2 humps out of the water probably 50 yards or so off the bank. We checked them out and the tops were covered with little cupped out circles. We knew what they were and we have caught redears, bluegills, and catfish there every year since then. Some years are better than others, but there'll be something there every year. Lots of people hug the banks in search of bream, but I fish out in the lake for them, and usually find them in April and May. I think the humps are Indian mounds, but that's just my guess. They are both perfect circles probably 20 yards diameter, 20 yards apart. Redears like those humps almost as much as I do. :) GTT

those big redear are worth messing with , wouldnt mind a big ole plate of those myself

wtg

Sounds like fun

Love me some big ole bream!

Went this afternoon and caught 7. Gave them to two ladies at the boat ramp on the way out. Not much luck today. GTT