Lake tillery night stalk in the books thread

What a great turn out for the night stalk on tillery last night. Great time seeing old friends and meeting some new faces. On the way down there was a ufo spotted hovering over Lynn cooks truck. Attachment 212010

Once we got there the party had already started because we were running late but not going to mention why because Lynn might read this. Haha.
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We had some great food and fellowship at the ramp. Not to mention some of the best potato salad that I saw Fishhound go back for three times.

We started fishing a main lake hump down lake that we marked good fish on in 20 foe but the wind was too tough on ol smokey to fish there. Most of the fish we end up catching was in 30-32 ft of water about 10 ft down. Here's Fishhound showing off a couple.

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Mac crappie catch from last night. He's showin off his 15" er on his new ruler. Lol

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Our live well before gobbler donated his fish and filled it the rest of the way.

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Causes lady showing off her nice catch Attachment 212019

As always enjoyed last night.nice to see some new faces and old as well.want to the newly for letting me tag along and putting my end of the boat on fish.I agree that was some good potato salad.hope to hv another stalk soon weather is cooling down and fishing should only start getting better.

Both Gretzky and I had a great time, I wound up out of bait and 17 crappie one perch in the live well. The biggest was 12" down from 14 in the cold water live well :-)

Culled a bunch, I found them in 28fow fishing about 14-16 feet down.
Other than the crazy person going flat out down the cove with no lights it was an uneventful evening.
i'm ready to go again

I was so excited to go fishing I laid a patch on the driveway when I left.
Actually the right front brake was stuck to the drum. I backed up a few feet and it broke loose and worked fine on the hill climb on the way into the ramp

The bosses 15"er before it went into the live well something fishy going on at that lake it shrunk, still think Causes ruler lies . lol
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My wife and I had an awesome time at the Night Stalk on Tillery.
Being the new guys going on an adventure with an established group can be quite awkward. This was not the case at all, once we got into the flow of things. I will admit that I was a little worried that people would think and treat us as if we were there to steal their fishing honey holes.
Shortly after we arrived Mac Crappie came by and introduced himself. Next Fishhound showed up and spoke at length about the lake layout and fishing techniques. He also helped us identify the waccamaw perch which we keep catching and thought it was some sort of striper or white bass. Lynn Cook was next to arrive. He brought bulbs for the reflector lights that he was helping me to build. I could not source the bulbs locally, and Lynn had a source on his way to the lake and offered to pick me up a couple. As we were starting to launch the boats Goobler stopped by and started what could possibly be a master’s class in electronics.
Once on the water, Lynn pointed us to an area that several boats had decided to fish. We hung around the ramp area for a bit and tried a few of Gobblers suggestions with the electronics to try and dial them in better. Then off we went. Once in the designated area, we trolled around a little looking at the electronics, and saw for the first time what we thought was going to be fish. We set up for night fishing and for the first time really caught fish with some regularity.
End results for the night. We love the reflector lights. My head is swimming with new information, tips and tricks to try. Saw some boat set-ups that I need to look into more. We kept 30 Crappie and 1 Perch after 5 hours on the water. As a comparison, before last night we had kept a total of 19 Crappie in 8 night trips and around 50 hours on the water trying to do it our way.
Four of our bigger fish for the night
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Our big fish for the night, caught by my wife. 13” 1.2 lbs.
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We had an AWESOME time and would like to thank everyone for a great night and more information than we can possibly process all at once. If you think there is a lot of information on Crappie.com, then you should carry on a 10 minute conversation with some of these guys. The information will overwhelm you.

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had a good time last night fellas, the boys were stuffed with hotdogs and doughnuts, we caught a several fish and made a whole lot of memories, this thread isn't long enough to tell all that happened in our boat last night but needless to say we had a good time and will talk about it around the house for some time. glad ya'll enjoyed the tater salad, made mary smile.

Glad everyone had a great time. As cause said all these guys love to have a great time and EAT of course. Here's a few more Picts to enjoy.

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glad ya'll enjoyed the tater salad, made mary smile.

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Do you think she would share the recipe? It really was some of the best. I could eat a big scoop about now with a plate of crappie. Haha.

IT looks and sounds like everyone had a great tillery trip.Thanks for the report and especially the pictures.

Man, if I was a cop I would arrest the whole bunch of you, for having too much fun. Thanks all of you for sharing it with us. Well described and certainly wish continued good times on your group.
C.c rocks! "D"

Hey Guy's, I'd like to thank everyone for the good time we had last night. This was our first trip on a Nightstalk with the group, so it was good to finally get to meet some of you. No sure I met everyone that participated, but I'll try and do better next time. Were new to fishing at night for crappie, and had previously struck out a couple times, but last night was the charm. Chrissy and I ended up with 27 crappie and 6 perch, and as usual, she caught the biggest one at 14 inches. We had a really good time. Here are some pics.

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This looks like it was a blast. I was on Jordan last night thinking bout you guys on Tillery, and after looking at this thread I would have rather been on Tillery myself! I've only got one question, when is the next one?!?

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Nice Picts pam3417. Good to meet you guys also last night.

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I've only got one question, when is the next one?!?

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I'm ready. Where do you guys want to go next month.

I've only got 1 more trip so this is up to everyone else. I'll be at Buggs Island 3rd thru 6th and will be unable to fish till 1st of the year. Moving and deer season. It's been a blast and will be ready for next year.

Sorry i had to miss this one, It looks like a lot of fun was had by all. Nice Pictures and report.

I vote for tillery

Glad everyone had a good time i did even though I got sick right after we left the ramp i gave charley bout an hour head start before I started to fish enjoyed fellowship with everyone glad to meet some of the new comers all the people on this site will be glad to help all they can

I'd like to go to Tillery myself. I do a lot of catfishing at the dam but never really fished for crappie there.

Follow along and join in we want turn anyone away. join in on talk and keep up with when and where. i am like Lynn one trip to Bugs the deer season.

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If you look up to the top left as usual newly bringing up the rear lol

I thought that was because he was the "unofficial" ramp photographer?????

Lol. maccrappie you was just hanging around to see which way I went. Haha.

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I thought that was because he was the "unofficial" ramp photographer?????

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He's just being newly but all kidding aside he's a good guy and we love to pick on him

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Lol. maccrappie you was just hanging around to see which way I went. Haha.

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Yeah Fishhound told me to follow you in case you had to be towed lol since old smokey hadn't seen the water in 2yrs lol

Sorry guy's, I can't wait another month. I'll be back this weekend Lord willing! Probably not going back to the roller coaster boat ramp though.

I had a tree branch in the bin top frame when I got home. It's hard staying on your lane going around those corners when you are wider than the lane

Looks everyone had a great time, hate I missed it.

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Looks everyone had a great time, hate I missed it.

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Ncnat we had a great time even newly was good hate you missed it maybe you can make it to the next one

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looks like yall found some nice fish!! hate I missed it! good job guys and gals!

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The master chef at work

Ya'll had a blast. Havin the kids out for nitestalkin is the way to go. Teach em well.

One of these days I'm going to figure out how to stay awake after 9:00 PM. Come join in the fun, looks like a great time.