Love to feel the thump!

Been fishing my crappie spot for two weeks now. Been catching a lot of short crappie and some good ones. Been wearing out the KY and largemouth bass on the ultralight....some days catching 75 bass. But today my crappie spot produced 3 limits of crappie in 4 hours of fishing today....not the first bass was to be seen....which is OK with me. The limit is 15 fish......so had a total of 45 crappie all 10 inches or over. Did not keep any fish today as I am having some minor surgery tomorrow and just wanted to come home and rest up....but next week I will be bringing fish home. I fished a Bison colored Trout Magnet using the Tict Ice Cube Rockin' Drift 6' 9" TOR UL rod with a Daiwa Certate 2000 CH reel spooled with SOS 2# test line. My jig head was a 1/16 ounce with a number 8 hook. I use that jig head when the current at my spot gets heavy.....and it was today. My preferred method is to use the Trout Magnet 1/64 ounce jig head with a single size "B" split shot about 18 inches up the line. It was a great day. The crappie are getting bigger and in two weeks I fully expect to be catching nothing smaller than 12 inches. I love feeling the crappie "thump". I am an avid UL angler and while I fish for other specie most of the time there is nothing quite like catching crappie on an UL rod. The 13 inch fish gave a great fight....pulling drag.....all the crappie put up a good tussle. If the doc tells me I can fish on Friday I will be back out there.....if not look for more reports next week. Life is good! Sore Lip"Em All!


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I believed you until you said sore lip them all. lol
Good luck with the surgery.

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I believed you until you said sore lip them all. lol
Good luck with the surgery.

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Trout Magnet user expression....part of their company logo.

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Good luck with the surgery Alphahawk, praying for you.
later...etex

Nice. The Doc is going to make you better but who is going to help those poor fish.

Nice catch and pics,best of luck with your surgery.

Man thats awesome! Tell me more about catching fish in the current! I do not want to hijack your awesome thread but, I used to run barrel nets in the arkansas river and sometimes they would be FILLED to the brim with slab crappie! We had to always turn em loose of coarse but the fact that I know they are in there and have had zero luck in scoring on em when I fish for them is mind boggling! Nice looking fish man!

Great fun right there. Do you use the trout magnet/crappie magnet jigheads as well?

Nothing like that thump! Thats all I do, vertical jig, me and my fishing buddy felt 140 thumps today!

Thanks for sharing

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Great fun right there. Do you use the trout magnet/crappie magnet jigheads as well?

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Yes I do. I prefer to use the Trout Magnet jig head as it is only 1/64 but the current was way too strong for that today.


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Man thats awesome! Tell me more about catching fish in the current! I do not want to hijack your awesome thread but, I used to run barrel nets in the arkansas river and sometimes they would be FILLED to the brim with slab crappie! We had to always turn em loose of coarse but the fact that I know they are in there and have had zero luck in scoring on em when I fish for them is mind boggling! Nice looking fish man!

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The place I am fishing is just basically a very wide ditch. When the current is running I will adjust my jig head weight accordingly....cast upstream of the current.....count down to my depth I want....and slowly retrieve it back to the point I think...know...the crappie are holding at. Now it will take a few casts to get the drift and depth right. It can be frustrating trying to time a cast jig like that. I have had to go up to as much as a 1/8 ounce....which for my way of fishing is very heavy. Today they were at 14 feet. I find when the current is up it is also a much harder thump too. I have been below Pickwick Dam fishing for white bass.....which has much more current than where I was fishing today....and got into tons of crappie....of course probably the best way to do this is with UL cranks...but I am hard headed....LOL.


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Trout Magnet user expression....part of their company logo.

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I knew that, and that's what brought about my comment, intended as a joke.

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I knew that, and that's what brought about my comment, intended as a joke.

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And received as a joke...all is well....LOL.

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Thanks for the prayers and words of encouragement guys. Just a reminder for all to wear sunscreen. I did not and am now paying for it. It is only basal cell carcinoma but requires slicing it off of my forehead.....been assured I will be back fishing in a few days. Life is good!


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Good post, and good luck with the surgery. I always enjoy your posts.

More than a hundred nice fish caught on any post in the future is gonna need GPS coordinates with it.

If not then I am gonna think you're just trying to make me jealous LOL.

Thanks much for the comments guys. Surgery went well....but may need several radiation treatments as the basal cell was in the nerves. They will let me know after they get the lab results back. But the doctor said the radiation will be nothing more than an inconvenience for me and all is well. The real good news is I can start back fishing tomorrow.....and I am going...LOL.


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Great to hear all went well.

Glad to hear things went good .nice report ! Hope you get back on them .if you ever need some company just holler lol
it would be nice to be schooled on catching fish like that.

Some nice healthy fish you have there. Hope you get back out soon.