Let the Good Times Roll

The fishing has continued to be smoking hot this week. Made three trips, one with Tommy, the others with guest, all were limit hauls of some quality fish. Fish are being caught in a variety of water depths and locations. All were caught with one pole, vertically jigging structure. We are catching fish on brush, logs, grass, lily pads, stumps, trees, and standing timber in water depths from a couple of feet, down to 20 plus. The fish are aggressive, and moving in and out of the structure. We are still catching fish with a good many eggs still in them, but the sacs are continuing to get smaller as the spawn winds down. The whites are still carrying most of their eggs, but we aren't catching many of them. A variety of color combos are being successful, with all fish coming off of Rooty Tooty 309's. Water temps are remaining in the mid 70's, with the lake levels continuing to be up and down. The water is clearing up as we are in need of some soaking rains.

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A couple of good ones from one of the trips.

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Thursday,s Cooler shot.

Thanks for posting the report Timmy. Since I have had to miss the last two weeks because of medical reasons I have enjoyed reading your post and seeing the pics of those nice crappie, helps to fan a fire that is burning inside of me that can't wait to get back on the lakes!
It is great to hear the jigging poles are the 309's are doing the job for y'all. This is the best time of the year for all around fishing and I hope others are enjoying some time on the waters also.
Congrats to you and Tommy :ThumbsUp

Great catch in those last two pics :highfive

nice report. would you mind telling us which lake? murray , marion, moultrie. the are all big enough and i am sure that we will not be in your hot spot. ha ha. just wondering. have not had a chance to hit the little saluda in over a month . need to wet the boat bottom. thanks.

Looks like the baby has more hair than grandpa and better looking too HA HA HA HA. Yes it was a great time on the water, lots fish and fun was had by all.

Ink,
as always nice mess of fish !!! congrats on getting out a catching a few !!! and Tommy is correct about the hair you might want to put your cover back on !!!:Rofl:ThumbsUp

Sorry, I forgot to mention that we were fishing lake Marion. I hate to hear of your health issues Ronnie, here's wishing you a speedy recovery. And yes Tommy, the little man already has more hair then his Papa. lol

Congratulation on your 3 day fishing trip! Glad you, Tommy and your guest had a blast. I'm going to have to agree with Tommy on the hair. lol He's a handsome little fella Tim. Oh yea my neighbor gave me some bream sat that they caught at santee on wed, thurs and friday. I'm talking huge! Said they were on fire! I thought about going to santee but a little nervous taking a fiberglass boat, don't feel like patching a hole. Tim as always thanks for the report and pics!

You still Da Man ! You and Tommy gonna rid the lake of all them big ole slabs. Great report. And the last pics... Looks like a future crappie catcher to me.

Good report Tim, as usual.

Glad to see your lake is still producing. I remember last year seemed really slow for you guys. Maybe it was a little later on though. Congrats on some good catches and some nice fish.


BTW, that grandchild looks to be a GREAT catch too.:ThumbsUp

Very nice congrats!!!!

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Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie

Congratulation on your 3 day fishing trip! Glad you, Tommy and your guest had a blast. I'm going to have to agree with Tommy on the hair. lol He's a handsome little fella Tim. Oh yea my neighbor gave me some bream sat that they caught at santee on wed, thurs and friday. I'm talking huge! Said they were on fire! I thought about going to santee but a little nervous taking a fiberglass boat, don't feel like patching a hole. Tim as always thanks for the report and pics!

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I fished out of a fiberglass boat for 20 years and never had the first booboo. I recently got an aluminum Tracker, but I would not hesitate to go in a glass boat. I fish the Stumphole area which is named Stumphole for a reason, so I have hit more than a few stumps, but I don't run fast in areas I know there are stumps, and when I do run up on one I usually can just give it a bit of gas and slide right over the stump. If you react to running up on a stump by backing off the gas you will turn into a compass needle until some one pulls you off or you can back it off. Just use caution and you should be fine.

Good report Tim. I took your advice and managed a few crappie off the piles at Jack's on good old RT309s. We also found some nice shellcrackers around the back side of Persanti Is. I was hoping to get back down there this week, but if I do it will be Friday.

I have to confess that when I first got there I saw some folks fishing brush with minnows and slip corks and not doing any good so I tried longlining 4 rods with curly tail jigs tipped with minnows. I had 4 or 5 fish hit but came off at the boat and I never saw them so I am not sure what was going on. I tried the bream around one of the islands but did not do any good and was getting discouraged and was about to leave. Then I said I am going to try this single pole stuff with the Rooty Tootys and see if I can make it work. (I was by fishing by myself, Rick could not make it this year) First pile I hit, solid thump and a nice crappie. I managed 7 off of maybe 10 piles with several throwbacks. It was around noon and the bite slowed so I headed back to Stumphole for more Shellcracker fishing.
Again thanks for the suggestions. Hate I missed you but hope Florida was fun.