Big Fish, Big Sandy justa "pushin and a pullin.........pics

Went out Monday morning for a few hours and got in some good fishes. I was pushing two rattletraps and pulling 4 bandits. Silver, pink, orange, and blue worked best. I caught most fish on the rattletraps I wasa pushin. Fish were concentrated in a few areas and I just kept passing over them. I had a slow lazy 8 pattern I was using. Fish were on the ledges in about 15-20 FOW around Mansard Island. Water temp was 82-85 degrees.

Monday late, we went back to the same locale, but the wind got us. What a cluster.
There were 2-3 foot swells and the pondtoon handled it just fine. Got the deck washed free. It needed it from all the fish scales from the morning.
I got some good snapshots on my Lowrance (2d) I will share when I find my SD card. I lost it again.

I was able to put those rattle traps where the fishes were using 2d.

This fish was about 2.5 pounds and 16.5 inches. He been ate.

Great job, I'll be out there tomorrow morning bout 5:30, I'll be in the "crappie magnet".

Great report with much info. Nice fishes too. Appreciate the photos.

nice mr tom ,how did u get brenda in the boat with out a pole with a bobber:biggrin

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Originally Posted by blueball

nice mr tom ,how did u get brenda in the boat with out a pole with a bobber:biggrin

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She wanted to just go for a short ride. ha

I checked out those spots you and I talked about. Fish moved out. I did a lot of scanning before putting out poles.

Great CP. Glad things are working out.

Good report CP and nice fish.:HandsClapping

Are you using those "firecast" rods for pushing ? How do they do, what size weights have you used with them?

Looks like Billbob did a good job teaching you

Nice catch and report.

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Originally Posted by jimp

Are you using those "firecast" rods for pushing ? How do they do, what size weights have you used with them?

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Yes. 12 foot Firecast. That is all the length I can handle. I was using 3 oz weights. Great pole for pushin as far as I know. I just followed ScottV's lead. I don't know much about this pushin and pullin stuff. It works though. I can say that I will never be an expert at it. Too much hard labor.

Rattle traps work great pushing.....here are some ScottV painted for me. Attachment 207284

Thanks for sharing the report and pics. You did good.

Nice looking mess.

Great fish and good fishing report.

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Originally Posted by "G"

Rattle traps work great pushing.....here are some ScottV painted for me. Attachment 207284

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Where u getting the rattle traps?

I got them out of my old tackle box from my bass fishing days....had ScottV on the MS board paint them for me in crappie colors.

Mine are leftovers too. They got a lot of "dents" in them, but the still wiggle. Hard to beat silver.

I just ordered a few rattlers from wLure.com. Good pricing, but who knows what will show up.

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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

I just ordered a few rattlers from wLure.com. Good pricing, but who knows what will show up.

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Tom, I've probably ordered 500 blank crankbaits from them and they have never messed my order up. NOW, I did order 30 cranks from them in a style different than my usual, painted them and put hooks on them, then found out the ball bearing rattles in every one of them were rusted. Ran like crap and couldn't tune them. I got in touch with them and they replaced every one of the painted baits with new blanks of a different style of my choice. Couldn't ask for much more than that. Been giving away nice painted keychain baits for a while (minus the hooks).

Good to here. I chose free shipping, so the baits will be here in a couple of weeks.
I just ordered 9 painted ones. I wanted some pink ones, but they didn't have any.

b there soon

Nice Mr. Tom

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Originally Posted by Billbob

b there soon

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HIDE THE WOMEN!

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Originally Posted by Cane Pole

Good to here. I chose free shipping, so the baits will be here in a couple of weeks.
I just ordered 9 painted ones. I wanted some pink ones, but they didn't have any.

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My free shipping orders from wLure have come in about 8 days ...

Rickie