3-3 Eagle Lake

My 1st trip to Eagle Lake was awesome and will not be the last. I hope to make it a yearly trip from now on. Got an invite from a coaching friend to stay at his brothers cabin and the hospitality was exceptional. We sat up til 11 watching Jerimiah Johnson and telling stories. I met up this morning with a buddy I played JUCO football with. Went out to float row along with 74 other boats(yes I took time to get an actual count). We only caught 11 but my gosh they are all big solid fish. I have never double jig rigged until today( bc that is what everybody else was doing) and did not get the 1st bite on a double rig. I bite them things off and but on single jigs(some tipped with minnow and some with just crappie nibbles) and went to catching fish. We could have done better but I was satisfied with it being my 1st trip and learning on the fly.
Fished close to at least 4 guides and the were doing a good job putting fish in the boat with those 16’ rods and big rigs that could handle the wind we had early.
Funny note: it was so many boats(several with women) we were trying to be discreet taking a leak so I had a small bucket we could pee by getting low in the boat and not flash everybody. I got down on my knees started releiving myself and a dadburn cramp caught me in my hamstring. I hit the floor hollaring trying everything I could trying to get my leg to straighted back out ...my Lord it brought back all those memories of 2 a days and cramping up after football games. He laughed at me and after I got the pain worked out I laughed about it to. Told him I didn’t care who was around if I had to pee again Folks would either have to get mad at me for peeing in front of them or mad at me for cranking up and maneuvering through the minefield of boats to get away and p
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Think I saw y’all out there today, it was a great day on the water!


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I was looking for you but I bet I saw 8 camo war eagle boats lol

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Wow! Nice crappie. :yikesWell when you gotta go you just gotta go.:Rofl

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Making me want to give eagle a try

WAY TO GO MAC

I heard they were catching some pigs over there and you proved it. Great job!

Brian I went to tibbe Friday and couldn’t stay still with a 15 mph wind. Found a little spot kinda isolated with 4 other boats right there within 50 feet of one another. One of the boats had an elderly man that just stood up and pulled it out right there in front of God and everybody ( all men). I couldn’t do nothing but laugh when he told us how deep the water was [emoji23]


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Great catch!! Especially for your first time trip.


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I’m almost positive I saw you if that’s a Carolina Skiff. I was in the blue and grey Ranger with the Yamaha. I saw you catch a couple of those, but I didn’t hear you catch the cramp[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]


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Yeah that was me in the Carolina Skiff. I can’t remember the color of the boats i saw but the guide that had the big Ranger with 16’ white Denalli rods was really catching them. If i fished Eagle very much in that shallow flat I would have those rods. For Ross Barnett I have always gotten away with 12’ rods and thought folks were crazy for trying to handle 16’ rods. I was proven wrong.

That was me when we were over by the trees on the back side of that flat. There were several of us in rangers with Denali rods in that flat, lol.

Good catch! I love catching those males.


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