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Crappie fishing with Hippy Dave Ohms 2/19/2018
I have so much fun when I fish with a Hippy. LOL Dave is a very good friend and he loves to crappie fish as much as I do. He stays busy and I have a hard time getting him into the boat at times, but he makes the morning go fast. We laugh a lot and cast a lot and usually catch a lot of fish. Today was no exception and that is good news considering only my 3rd time to fish for crappie this year and it had been very slow too.
Today, I took him to Dallas Bay area where we fish and scouted for a little while and enjoy the relatively good weather and little wind. But we had no success in the area that I had located fish yesterday, so we had to go on a search. It turned out that we got onto crappie by fishing docks. The wind picked up about the time that we started fishing docks and that makes boat control a little more difficult when shooting docks and very little space to get out jigs in place because of boats sitting on lifts which blocked a lot our casts. But we had enough success to make it enjoyable. We caught a lot of under sized crappie on a couple of docks. But, the first dock that we fished yielded a fat 12" Black crappie on 2nd cast. Hippy got into the act then and began to wax the crappie.
We finally decided to move to a shallow bay area and see if any crappie had begun their move toward the shallows. They are beginning to move around a little bit. We switched out tactics from tight lining jigs to fishing with a floater and hair jig. At least Dave fished with a hair jig. I was stubborn and fished with crappie magnets for way too long before switching to hair. Dave was killing me. Grin. We had 10 keepers with five being over 12" and the biggest was a 13.25" fish. One 10" yellow perch, a small yellow bass, and Dave caught my pet Drum, about a 6 pounder. He thought that it was a catfish until he saw it at the boat. LOLOL We made a quick release of that fish without hurting it at all.
The wind was white capping in the main river on that very long stretch that all local people know about. We decided to quit a little after noon. Water temp was 53.6 in bays and 48 in the river. Better color in some of the bays and I think that the river had cleared just a little bit, but it was still muddy and TVA running 111,000 CFS. Lake level was 1.5' above winter pool. That's it for a few days.
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