Duck Season is out........ Hoggin season is in!!

Well got the boat back from the boat mechanic Friday and had a great day to test it out today.
Also got to test out my new depth finder
I found fish in DEEP water 17-24 FOW and some of them just happened to be PIGS!!
I caught this 2# 8 oz. big girl and snapped a few pictures and released her back to hopefully be hanging out in one of my stake beds again some day.

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dang man nice

Looks like you had a good day, those are some nice fish.

Nice mess! Ever thought about doing a tv show? :Rofl

I've been having trouble finding them and yours is the second post talking of finding fish deep that I've read today. Any chance your finding them in the bottom of a trough or creek channel? A week ago I fished all the regular haunts, stake beds, channel edges, and all I found were dinks. As I motored over a channel with 28-30 of water, I marked fish just off to within 5' of the bottom and blew it off thinking no way they were crappie. Time for an old dog to learn a new trick?

Nice fish Jeff, a friend of mine got on some pigs in deep water on Monday also. Between your pics and my buddy's I have about talked myself into braving the cold Thursday morning.

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Originally Posted by slabseeker1

I've been having trouble finding them and yours is the second post talking of finding fish deep that I've read today. Any chance your finding them in the bottom of a trough or creek channel? A week ago I fished all the regular haunts, stake beds, channel edges, and all I found were dinks. As I motored over a channel with 28-30 of water, I marked fish just off to within 5' of the bottom and blew it off thinking no way they were crappie. Time for an old dog to learn a new trick?

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I regularly catch fish down 30-32 feet deep in up to 50 fow on Green in the winter using jigs

Russ,
I did find them at the base of creek channels but also found them on deep humps out of the creek channels and in the bottom of the creek channels.
I noticed that if I found tons of baitfish around my beds then all I found was little fish. I also noticed the suspended fish in the bottom of the creek channels and in my opinion by what I saw on my hds units they were crappie.

Nice box of fish.

So you DS is better?

Yes, when I tried to tighten up the bracket it must of been weak or stressed and broke but I put a new one on and everything cleared up. I assume it was getting a vibration from the boat movement/ current and that was distorting things.

Nice mess you got there.

Some nice ones for sure.
LittleJohn

congrats on a fine mess of fish