A pleasant surprise!:Report*

I dragged myself out of bed yesterday to get out fishing on Jordan. When I got there I stuck to the places that I thought would have some fish, and did have some over the past few weeks, but those apparently just turned into nurseries because they were all about 6" or less. I wasn't doing well. I passed by a bass guy, who pointed me to a small cove. He said he had seen a few others the day before doing well. That was a really nice guy.

I I paddled over to the cove and dropped two rods for crappie and one with chx liver for any random catfish coming by. From 0745 - 1030, I had caught 55 crappie total of various sizes! It was amazing! At about 10 I finally put away the second crappie rod because I couldn't handle both. It was non stop!! Anyways... I left about 1300 or so, with 83 fish caught, 15 crappie (11" or better), 1 cat, and 2 white Perch (mostly because they wouldn't leave me alone and I want to see how they taste).

By by far the best day I've ever had with crappie, and my first cat from a kayak. Which is kind of like having a trolling motor. Haha.

Congrats, it's always nice when you find fish!

Thank you, Sir. (Lt? Officer?)

It was by far my best day ever, and a blast in the kayak!
Now that I have some freezer food, I kind of want to start playing with bigger fish for fun. I may have to start looking for more cats, etc.

Great Job!

Good catch and report.

Rick

Great report! Thanks for sharing!

Nice day and nice looking kayak! That looks like a comfortable seat.

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Originally Posted by MNKK

Thank you, Sir. (Lt? Officer?)

It was by far my best day ever, and a blast in the kayak!
Now that I have some freezer food, I kind of want to start playing with bigger fish for fun. I may have to start looking for more cats, etc.

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It's actually just my initials. I never even thought about the potential to imply ranking until someone else on the forum asked the same thing.

As to larger fish, the stripers are working their way up the roanoke as we speak!

Great report, glad you got on them.When I was a teen I had a 1 man rubber raft that I fished from it was fun hooking a fish that would take you for a ride. Hook something like a cat and you were shooting across the lake.Good memories

Don't forget the wooden jonboat you built from scratch!

That was a day you won't soon forget. Thanks again

Haha.. that might have been me asking a while back. It sounds familiar. As for the Stripers, it's on the list. We may try the Eno this coming weekend, or that. Not sure yet, a lot has to do with time vs. distance travelled.

Sounds like you had a blast.That's great.

Good report and picture. I added report to the title, so now you are entered in the Bobby Garland bait contest. Fellows, don't forget to help"D" out and put report in the title. See the sticky. A nice Bobby Garland package of baits.

I would have, but I thought I was already entered into it with another one. Or is this a multiple entry event?