Lake Townsend 2 lb 1 oz Crappie

Fished Lake Townsend yesterday. Had the First Mate on board for this trip. Caught 34 crappie, 3 white perch, 4 bass, and 1 warmouth. Longline trolling with jigs. Water temp 64 degrees, cloudy and quite cool with the breeze. Caught some good fish including a 1lb 3 oz, 1lb 7 oz, 1 lb 8 oz, and a 2 lb 1 oz. Lake Townsend has the best quality of fish of any the small city lakes that I fish but does not have big numbers of fish. It can be difficult at times to locate fish. Most of the fish today were in 10-12 ft of water.

The 2 lb fish hit a StrikeKing Shadpole curly tail in Cajun Cricket color. This is a new jig that I just started fishing with last week and caught some of the larger fish on it when fishing Lakes Townsend and Belews. I was looking for a curly tail that was larger than the standard but not as big as the 3 inch size. It is larger than most curly tails and has a larger tail. Nothing like catching a 2 pounder to give you confidence in a jig. I often try new jigs but after a few tries go back to my old tried and true ones but I may have to make a tackle run for some more colors on this one.

A good day on the water with the First Mate on board and catching a 2 pounder.

Rick

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Pretty work Rick and "first mate". However, it's not that new jig that's working.................It's that Lund boat. Proud to have you guys in the Lund family!

I love this boat. Very fishable for longline trolling.
Rick

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Originally Posted by Chuck Haley

Pretty work Rick and "first mate". However, it's not that new jig that's working.................It's that Lund boat. Proud to have you guys in the Lund family!

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Good job Rick j nice looking fish


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Nice looking Fish. I may have to try some of those jigs.

Nice one

Those 4 fish would have put you in the money in most tournaments if not have won it.


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Those are some good fish!

Nice fish--a truly memorable day.

Nice catch. I've have some success using the pumpkin seed and chart curly tail shad pole.

I lived 5 miles from the ramp there for 9 years and must say I know how much of an accomplishment that is to catch fish like that in any of the city lakes there. All of the stunted weird looking crappie in those lakes would frustrate the crap out of me. Way to go, that is a record day for that lake IMO!

Wow, that's some really nice looking fish. Wish Wylie had a few of those swimming around to give us a flutter of the heart!:biggrin

Congratulation on a great day fishing!

BigDawgg I know that there was 2 in Wylie that size on October 1st. lol


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Very nice fish indeed, I have fished there a couple of times and always found decent fish but nothing like that, WTG, I caught my first ever 2lb crappie in lake Higgins about 2 years ago.

You're killing me over here! I live 3 miles from Townsend so it's always been my home lake. Wow has it changed since I started fishing again. I thought the crappie had been evicted. I think I've caught one on my old brush piles in five trips since Nov and I was worried something serious had happened to it. I know the water clarity is only a foot or so when it used to be 5 ft.

Man, nice looking fish!. Nice yellow rods, too :highfive I have a handful of those myself - use to use them for longlining, but mostly just for nightstalking now - they work great for vertical fishing.

Nice fish. Don't take many of those to make a nice meal.