KY Lake 4-24-16 Wife's 1st crank trip of the year

My wife lost a very dear friend and co-worker Friday and has been struggling with it. I told her last night she needed a crankbait trip to help her feel better. It was cool and foggy as we headed the 8 miles to my favorite ramp. We launched and only ran a couple hundred yards to our starting point.

She got one of the 1st crappie of the day;
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We ended up a short trip with 10 keepers, a 16 inch sauger, one keeper LMB, and kept a couple pig channel cats. The lake got rough but as the weather warmed up, the lake lice got out like it was 4th of July. We had a large time. Now if I can just get her to remember the netting technique I spent all last summer teaching her. It takes years off my life to see her bring in a big crappie with the crankbait tangled in the net and the fish dangling below it. She'll get there.

BTW, every fish we caught were on custom painted cranks. The John Deere green was big today. We found a bunch of pre-spawn females on a 14 foot flat next to deep water but the channel cats ran us off of it.

Very nice!!

Do you use side planner boards, or longline them cranks?

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Originally Posted by Kevmc

Do you use side planner boards, or longline them cranks?

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I pull cranks when my wife is along. I have Opti flag boards that I use some when by myself.

If I had tried to run boards today, they would have been run over by tri-toons and green carp glitter boats at least 20 times today.

I'm glad you were able to make her smile today!

Good job....on the fish....and making her smile

Sounds like a fine day!!! Good to hear the crankbait bite is starting.

Congrats on a awesome looking day. Those look like some nice fillets.

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Originally Posted by mrdux

I pull cranks when my wife is along. I have Opti flag boards that I use some when by myself.

If I had tried to run boards today, they would have been run over by tri-toons and green carp glitter boats at least 20 times today.

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He wasn't talking about me....I have a witness i wasn't out there on the water today!!

Nice work as usual. How does she like the boat?

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Originally Posted by wilbur

Nice work as usual. How does she like the boat?

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Her 1st trip in it she told me she didn't like it because the Suzuki has a rounded top and she can't rest her feet on top of it like the old Yamaha. With the lake pretty rough yesterday, she was liking it better due to the stability. She still thinks it runs too fast. I had it on plane for a couple hundred yards yesterday.

She'll learn to love it.

Dux you think there is a chance Me and the Wife will catch the tail end of the spawn coming down the 5th? Gonna try to find a few. BTW that brown baby we got from you is all grown up and spoiled rotten. She looks just like her mama. Vertically challenged a little but she just jumps higher to make up for it! LOL

Once you get the netting technique refreshed with your wife what would you charged to teach my wife how to efficiently & timely operate a net?

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Originally Posted by killum

Dux you think there is a chance Me and the Wife will catch the tail end of the spawn coming down the 5th? Gonna try to find a few. BTW that brown baby we got from you is all grown up and spoiled rotten. She looks just like her mama. Vertically challenged a little but she just jumps higher to make up for it! LOL

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It's really hard to tell. A buddy of mine had over 40 crappie shallow yesterday with ONE KEEPER!!! From the reports I got from Sunday, Vicki and I must have had a pretty good day. The post-spawn longline bite can be better than the pre-spawn some years.

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Originally Posted by ccollins

Once you get the netting technique refreshed with your wife what would you charged to teach my wife how to efficiently & timely operate a net?

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Chris, I honestly think Vicki is having some wrist issues that make handling my EGO rubber net in the full-extended position painful. We will continue working on it. As long as we are catching good numbers, the chance to practice the netting will make things better. I would rather be netting her fish anyway.

Nice!

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