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Starting to make some loose plans for next years fishing trips...... Def wanna head south in late feb or early mar to crappie fish , not convinced where yet...... Looking into a catfishing trip to wheeler..... And the usual multiple trips to Erie ....... Any one heading south to crappie fish and if so where ???? ...... We've done Weiss past two years and maybe again in 2015.....have kicked around chickamunga, Ky lake, or one of the Mississippi big four......any suggestions????
No plans on crappie trips yet. But I am going to Wheeler next week 17-22 and am going out with Guide Jason Bridges on the 21st. I'll give you a report on Wheeler when I get back. Been to Reelfoot, Sardis, and Grenada. I will be going back to Grenada and Sardis again. I stayed at the cabins on Grenada overlooking the lake. They're great and can pull your boat on bank and walk up to some of them. 75.00 bucks a night. Pretty good price when split between 4 people.
Definitely going to Ky Lake in mid April with the guys . May go back again with my wife later in the year.
I'm very interested in an Erie trip for crappie also.
I was going to try to get some details from you as time got closer...
I think EFslabs and I started talking about Ky Lake 2015 almost as soon as we got home last year.
MAX...... Just call or pm me I'll help any way i can on Erie......we had a amazing time up there last year every trip we went.....we did extreemly well in may crappie fishing last year up there
Milky. ..... Do you have a name of the cabins??? Are you catfishing wheeler???
2 trips planned for 2015: first in April to Kentucky Lake. Moore's Resort, Blood River area. 2nd in May to Reelfoot Lake for bluegill. Some of the largest gills I have ever caught, non hybrid. Sportsman's Resort, North Blue Basin is where we stay. Other potential trip is to St John's River in Florida (visiting my Sister). She has a houseboat on the river. Great crappie, cat, and gill fishing.
Will be on Lake Washington in February and on Grenada the rest of the spring except for tourney weekends on Sardis, its tuff but someone has to do it.
Whatever you decide good luck.
Yep....going back to Louisiana in Feb
I did make it to Erie last year for what was supposed to be a long weekend. It was a longer story than this but the guy I went with wanted to leave after the 1st day. I did a trip with him a few years back to Weiss and he wanted to leave on that trip too. I drove on the Weiss trip so he had to stay. He drove his truck to Erie so I had to leave. Never again, it was like fishing with a woman with PMS on a fishing trip. (Cry baby)Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepguyjames
I noticed he left one of his tackle boxes sitting in my boat when he dropped me off on his way home. I don't want to keep his stuff but I'm not giving it back to him either. I think I'm going to find some kid just starting out and give him a tackle box full of goodies.
I should have kept my promise and never went on a trip with him again. Some guys just can't get away from momma....
Don't think he would be going again.
I went on one like that once....bummer
Geez max I think I would have duct taped him to a tree so where and fished the rest of the weekend LOL..... Can't wait for my Erie trips to start. We did awesome crappie fishing and small mouth up there this year. Them smallys we're a BALL..... The crappie on the docks was awesome ..... And the walleye was good as usual. Erie is my fav by far.
Looking hard at Sardis-Grenada-Ky lake...... Decisions decisions.......
That is a bummer.
Heading to Guntersville March 6-10. Heard there are some big slabs in there!!
That is a bummer.
Heading to Guntersville March 6-10. Heard there are some big slabs in there!!
Hey James- I currently have non-resident annual licenses for KY-IN-TN-MS-FL and of course here in good ol ohio! If I can save all of T-BONES beer cans, I might be able to repeat next year:biggrin
Save all his beer cans and you can buy all those and my Ohio - Ind - Alabama - Misissippi - Minnesota lic ...... And upgrade my electronics.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Y-SLABS
Going back to Lake D'Arbonne,La in April for crappie we meet some neighbors from here along with a couple who live near Shreveport,La and camp at the state park at D'Arbonne.Here are pics from this past spring.Attachment 176152Attachment 176153Attachment 176154Attachment 176155
I like that fish cleaning station.
I wouldn't leave on the Bama trip and he was sure to make the rest of that trip just plain miserable, I didn't want to go through it again.Quote:
Originally Posted by jeepguyjames
The worst part of it was there were 4 of us. I made it clear when we were making plans that it was an exploratory trip just to see what East Harbor SP was all about and explore the prospects of fishing from the mainland.
The crappies and smallies are what I'm most interested in. Do you run out to the islands for the smallies?
C-MAX....... We have always done best smally fishing on the reefs, around Kelly's island, rattle snake island or around put-in-bay. We found em this year on a rock drop off around put in bay..... Dropped from 8 to about 22 ft. We just dragged drop shot rigs down the side of the drop. Did a "controlled drift". Wacky style senkos. Tough to beat soft crawls if the bite gets tough. If you can't get out after the smallys and the crappie don't play nice the large mouth fishing in the bays and around the docks is off the chain. Always something biting at Erie for sure. But to answer your question we've always done our best smally fishing on the big water, yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiemax
2014 Jr's small mouth from around put-in-bay. Kid was a natural with a drop shot rig
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2014 large mouth from East Harbor
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Nice fish.
That's about what I figured. I never got a chance to fish the harbor but it looks like it could be fun.
Back when I used to do Erie we used to get the smallies on the south side or the north east corner of Kelly's pretty good. I got some good wally's fishing for smallies up there. 1 night got one just at 31", the next night I got 1 that was 30 3/4". I never did the green fish up there but that could be fun too.
My biggest problem making the big run up there is that 40 hp motor is just a bit small. It's fine around here but it needs an energy boost on the big lake.
Yea I still love Wally fishing up there also..... 30inch Wally I a monster...... If you can time the smallys when there up on top of the reefs they'll smash jerk baits ( and spinner baits ) ..... That's a real good time. The hit jerk baits a TON.......drop shot / jerk bait / spinner bait / tubes are our go to methods for the bronze backs up there.
James the state park is Hugh White at Grenada and the cabins are down towards the dam end. And I'm only catfishing at Wheeler this weekend and maybe Wilson. I hope the skipjack are at Wilson dam. I need bait.