Friday 13th ?

Thought it was a bad luck day ? Well for a box full of crappie it was. Met the usual gang at Ebenezer bout 7:30. My crew took out for parts unknown. After a little head scracthin and thinkin of a couple of recent post we found em. They was in the river channel and had mud in their eyes they was so close to the bottom. Any where from 40 out to 52 fow. But on bottom. Water was slight stain and 50 to 52 degree. Tightline minnows. Wind was a bit of trouble. O.K. It was a royal pain. If we could stay in the channel we caught em. But the wind made it tough to stay. Little rain and little chilly but ya gotta go when ya can. We had 36 keepers on my boat and bout 20 skidders. Very few perch. Not sure how the other guys did but they will add somethng I am sure. Ray wish you could have stayed with us. Next time you can get em. Overall a decent yet windy Friday 13th. Hey brettw , Left ya a line on the water to follow. See the attached photo and follow the pink line.

I was on the SS Remus 1 with Remus and Big Dawgg After a lot of chit chat at the ramp we moved over to the 50 ft water and dropped some lines down to the bottom. Remus and I started throwing fish in the live well,after a bit I noticed a tear or two in Big Dawgg's eyes. I felt sorry for him cuz all he was doing was holding the live well top open for us to throw fish in. I jumped up and reached out and called on my magical powers and said "Catch some fish now" touched my hands on his fishing rod.
Ten seconds later he had a fish on the line and stayed busy the rest of the day.
The Dawgg will fill you in on the catch and other details when he denies the story I just told.
A great day on the water with some great friends, those that didn't go missed a great day on the water

And I thought that was rain fallin the whole time. :cheers2

I was going to show up, but I fished yesterday and thought it was going to be a wash out today. I should have went! They have been deep all week, 45 to 50 feet on the bottom. But yesterday i caught some in 35 feet on the bottom. The wind was tuff yesterday too, hard to stay over them in that kind of wind! Glad ya found them.
I also found some under the docks yesterday in 25 to 30 feet, not a lot but they were there.

Well I tell you I was saved today. Scoop placed his hands on my fishing rod and asked that I be healed and man I felt a shock all down my spine and I never looked back again. I was immediately catching crappie one after another until Remus touched my other rod. Then it was just fishing and getting the net, hold this and watch that yellow rod back there. You'll can guess what a day I had in the middle of the boat. I'm not sure but I think Remus said we had 35 crappie and 27 perch with some throw backs. Maybe a 100 fish between both boats. Just guessing. It was a good day for sure with good people to boot. Wind was a bit rough, I'm wind burnt fairly good. We will have to do it again on a better day. :cheers2 Let's do it tomorrow.:popcorn

I was sitting in my easy chair and looking at the wind howling on Murray and wondering if any of you fishermen stuck it out. Glad to see you did and was rewarded with a nice mess of fish. Thanks for sharing

The water did rise today because of my tears but it worked out okay for me though. I got my luck refreshed with some nice fish for a change.:Rofl Thanks Scoop!

LOL it sounds like ya'll had a good day even with the bad weather. Good to hear you were able to find the fish hiding on the bottom. Congrats everyone that fished today on your catches, even you BigDawgg :biggrin

I can really pickum, can't I? Marion and I had struggled for two days and with the rain threating we decided to break camp and head back home. Might have figured we'd miss the hot bite. That, Gentlemen, is why I don't play poker or any other game of chance. :banghead

Congrats fellas, thats a nice looking box of fish!

thanks again scoop that skunk smell and cry water was about to get to me till you healed bigdawgg
I've been to three pig pickings two world fairs passed through mcgills cross road and rode
in a hot air balloon but never seen nothing change that quick one sec. fishless next sec. two rods in one
hand and another in other hand trying to get other rod with his feet. had a big crappie on all of um :Rofl

thanks for a good day guys cant wait till next time thanks for riding with us scooper dude ==
you welcome on the uss uncle remus 1 any time

sorry you had to leave Ray ==we took them minners out and trained them up a while and they went right to work :biggrin

Glad ya taught the Dawwgg how to fish. It turned out to be a good day. Bout time for a road trip ain't it? Wateree needs to see the Dawwgg. In action. Remus get working on this.After Crappie Fest would be good.

Good to hear and see ya'll got into em!!! I had to work for a few hours Fri morn so I could not make it, hate I missed it!! Will we looking forward to getting back down there and fishing with ya'll again. You know ya'll are always: to make a road trip up north, to see if them lapper minnows will go to work for you up here:dono

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Originally Posted by spotrunnin

Good to hear and see ya'll got into em!!! I had to work for a few hours Fri morn so I could not make it, hate I missed it!! Will we looking forward to getting back down there and fishing with ya'll again. You know ya'll are always: to make a road trip up north, to see if them lapper minnows will go to work for you up here:dono

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Get something together and we will give it a whirl. You know this crowd aint skeered ! :cheers2

Sounds like you all had a great time. I was stuck at work till 8:30 in the eve and it sucked. Nice report that they are still deep. They gotta be starting that movement. I know last Saturday there was a lot of bait up in Crowders. I caught 13 catfish in two hours flatlining. All of them were from 4 pounds to 9 pounds. Still a lot of fun on light tackle.

Remus didn't tell about the Blue Cat he caught on 6lbs test line.
Took some doing to get the cat to the boat then Big Dawgg had a heck of a time getting it onboard with the crappie net.

Here's a shot of the live well before we filled it up

I say again.... That is one ugly critter. Nice cat though !!!!!! Is that your bait bucket ? And by the way... Ya'll better get off the Dawgg. He will sic The BuggMan on ya soon.

that critter was sho-nuff slick and slime got that stuff on my brand new rain coat. first time I had it on just pulled the
Minnie Pearls off it :Doh:

speaking of bug man !!== he sposed to go with us to crappie feast maybe he can get the dawgg straighten out :biggrin

will be good to meet you BugMan heard a lot about ya. you gonna have to pour on the coal and win a trophy for us to haul around on the ussuncleremus1 :ThumbsUp

Poker, like fishing is a game of skill Ray. You remember the song don't ya........You gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run.......................................but a little luck ain't never hurt nobody!

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Originally Posted by SeaRay

I can really pickum, can't I? Marion and I had struggled for two days and with the rain threating we decided to break camp and head back home. Might have figured we'd miss the hot bite. That, Gentlemen, is why I don't play poker or any other game of chance. :banghead

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Originally Posted by Inkdabber

Poker, like fishing is a game of skill Ray. You remember the song don't ya........You gotta know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run.......................................but a little luck ain't never hurt nobody!

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Great.......... Now I'm gonna be hummin that song all dang day............:Rofl

I feel for you my friend. My grand daughter got me on that song sitting the car one evening. We heard it on the radio and she started and then me. My wife got in the car then she joined in. We'll never sell a record. LOL :banghead please leave my head!