I see great pics and breakdown of top 4 or 5 winners. Any info from your first tourney would be great. How did they catch them? Kind of water or structure? Water conditions and temps? Get us fired up to fish with alittle info please? :)
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I see great pics and breakdown of top 4 or 5 winners. Any info from your first tourney would be great. How did they catch them? Kind of water or structure? Water conditions and temps? Get us fired up to fish with alittle info please? :)
http://www.indianaslabmasters.com/20...%20Results.pdf
There's the link to the weigh-in results.
As for the other info, it's just shared with the members and patrons that visit the weigh ins. Jim stopped doing recaps a couple seasons ago.
not a very good idea to share your tactics, when you fish for money, i wouldnt imagine. even if they told me, i dont think i would believe them. lol
if you looking for crappie now, look for the shallowest warmest water.(in the afternoon)
Thanks for link for the results as I couldn't find it or overlooked it. That told me what I wanted to know really.Quote:
Originally Posted by filletfetish
I agree. After all, we wouldn't want to teach any arm chair quarterbacks how to fish or let them know where to catch them on this forum would we? Nor would we want to exploit or advertise baits, tackle, etc. used for their sponsors benefits either as it might be construed as free advertising. And also, we also would hate to see those that learn become more future competition in future crappie tournaments not saying that it might be nice to see a bigger turnout. :lol: I remember a quote, "money is the root of all evil." and how it sure affects friendships and comradery :)Quote:
Originally Posted by river scum
cevans is one intelligent man..or true dat!!!!!my buddies from ohio won it yates and allen and im sure they would tell u how they got em ..doesnt really matter next year be somewhere different or different depth color and so on.weather and lake conditions r always different..they r good fisherman
and remember without sponsors no tournaments
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink! You can tell all, give a guy a new boat, all the technology, equipment, lures, baits, etc.....its still up to a person, to catch a fish! Take a cue, from Ray Scott who built a 20 Billion empire, pick up a BASS Times, or BASS Mag..they tell all,,,you still have to be the one, to catch the fish. Secrets...sheese!
The results tell me ,,,one tough tourney tho. After all, Ice on the lake the week before with over 3" of rain in the melt. Lake rising, Cold front going thru on Sat of tourney day.
15 teams - no fish, that's 38% of contestants not weighing fish.
9 teams - 1 fish
2 teams - 2 fish
3 teams - 3 fish
6 teams - 4 fish
2 teams - 5 fish
1 team - 6 fish
2 teams - 7 fish limit
76 fish weighed in for a avg. weight (total weight 54.29) of 0.72 lbs. per fish.
592 hrs of fishing time by 74 contestants equals 0.13 fish caught per hour.
Very tough tournament and Kudos to those that fished it. Hope you have better results on the next one and good luck to all.
if you would have look i did post on home site (OHIO)
as we said at the finish... B'n'M poles, Southern Pro tubes, Bobby Garland baits,
along with breakfast and live bait from Poor Boy's Country Store...
and the world famous Nightprowler jigs...
it was a very slow bite Fri & Sat, lake was up 3 or 4 feet.
creek & coves muddy/stain, main lake clear, temp 45f 50f.
fished iceout 6-8 ft deep.
sunny Sat , bite turn on after 1pm
My partner and I fished up in the Creek. Pre fished for 2 days, caught 1 keeper. Water was cloudy everyday with temps running 45 to 49 degrees. Marked tons of fish practicing but couldnt get the big bites, we hoped with sunshine on tournament day we could get a big bite. We slow trolled Arkie shinee hinee hair jigs tipped with big crappie shiners, and also had luck with the arkie sexy tail shad in black and green, and pink and pearl tubes worked well also, matched up on roadrunner glow walleye jigheads. Fish caught around timber in 10ft of water suspended 4 to 6 feet deep
I will be coming up in the fall and need all the help I can get:fish
Look at the past three to four tournaments on Patoka and you will see similar results.... Patoka right now is the worst lake in our state when it comes to fish over 9 inches.
Kudos to the guides on that lake trying to get keeper size crappies for their clients.
Not sure why it's the way it is the past 3 years? 4 years ago everyone was catching nice stringers of 12 to 15" crappies.
Hats off to Yates and Allen those fella's figured them out when no one else could.
"Not sure why it's the way it is the past 3 years? 4 years ago everyone was catching nice stringers of 12 to 15" crappies."
quote TDH crappiemaster
that's about when the CO told me not to throw small fish back, the lake was over populated and needed thinning or the fish won't grow very fast or not at all.
Don't fish with out it...
http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?&id=HN.608...d=1.9&rs=0&p=0
I wanted to see also,,how Patoka did as they had a Indiana Bass Fed. tourney the following Sunday day after the Crappie Tourney. Out of 75 or so boats,,,150 fishermen,,,3 bass won the tourney...only shows 9 boaters, and 9 non boaters with fish,,,mostly 1..then I went to USA Bass,that had a tourney on Monroe on the same Sunday,,,and USA Bass, had I think,,9 boats,,of which 8 weighed fish,,but,,4 boats had their limit of bass and most had more than Patoka after the 4,,so the old lady Monroe,,put it on Patoka for bass fishing even. With all the cover in Patoka,,can't figure it out any more why its like it is. Also,,for 2014,,Indiana DNR stocked 300k or more Stripers again,,and 1.5 million walleye fry again in it. You can find that info on DNR's website.
I just happened to be on the DNR stocking page before visiting this site this morning. It only shows 68,000 stripers being stocked in 2014 and they were hybrids. Anyone know when they started stocking the wipers instead of stripers? DNR: Fish Stocking and State HatcheriesQuote:
Originally Posted by cevans
Several years now on wipers,,my mistake on the amount of stripers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greenedog