Tough day...but another TARP.

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04-17-2018, 09:04 PM
Alphahawk

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Tough day...but another TARP.

Another TARP crappie....14.5 inches. Hit the river around 11:00 and found a ton of shad floating and also a few feet down in the water column. I knew this was going to be tough day. Long story short.....only one fish...although I marked hundreds and hundreds of them. They would just not eat. My buddy fishing with me even tried some of the live shad he scooped up from the water and nothing would hit them either. I have caught more TARP crappie this year than the past several years combined.......what is the difference......not sure but they are all coming on the 1/32....1/16.....1/8 ounce Fin Spin. This one today came on my last 1/32 ounce pink Fin Spin I have...dressed with a Bison colored Trout Magnet. The fish is being held by my buddy Larry Attachment 298757for the pic......I know I should have held the fish and let him take the pic but I didn’t. It fought hard.....used my Tict Ice Cube UL rod and 2# test SOS line with a 2 foot section of Phantom fluorocarbon leader. I got in on the backside of this shad kill....on this river that makes fishing tough. The only thing feeding on the shad today were crows......blue herons....and river otters. Going to hit it again in the morning with my son...Life is good!

Regards

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04-17-2018, 09:06 PM
CrappiePappy

What'cha reckon caused the Shad kill ??
04-17-2018, 09:12 PM
FurFlyin

What's a TARP crappie?
04-17-2018, 09:16 PM
Alphahawk

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

What'cha reckon caused the Shad kill ??

Well it was pretty cold there overnight....and they cranked up the gens to 9000 CFS. I figure they came through the generators when they cranked them up. I’m not really sure....but there were tons of them. Found a few trout barely swimming on top of water......already stuffed with shad......had to net them and pull shad out of their throats that were too big and were stuck. They all swam off after we freed them from their burden.......LOL.

Regards

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04-17-2018, 09:37 PM
Alphahawk

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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

What's a TARP crappie?

Tennessee Angler Recognition Program. They have certificates they give out.....well you have to send in I think 15 bucks, I think. You send in a pic of the measured fish and they send you the certificate if they think it is all on the up and up. For crappie the length is 14 inches and above. They have a set length for each fish specie. For instance bluegill have to be 10 inches. I have quite a few so called “TARP fish” but I have never put in for the certificates. I know a lot of states have a similar program. The largest crappie for crappie that has ever been submitted was 19.75 inches. It’s a pretty good program. They will give out Master Angler certificates for folks that get a TARP for the 25 species on their list....now that is pretty impressive.....to get a trophy sized fish for all the 25 specie.

Regards

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04-17-2018, 10:07 PM
ET Fish

Shad kill! You just don’t expect that in April, but this April has been pretty strange. I am actually thinking about making a trip that direction this weekend....it’s the first weekend in weeks that rain is not in the forecast. Yet! Congrats on the TARP!
04-17-2018, 11:37 PM
Slabprowler

Nice fish! Thanks for sharing
04-18-2018, 06:41 AM
FurFlyin

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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Tennessee Angler Recognition Program. They have certificates they give out.....well you have to send in I think 15 bucks, I think. You send in a pic of the measured fish and they send you the certificate if they think it is all on the up and up. For crappie the length is 14 inches and above. They have a set length for each fish specie. For instance bluegill have to be 10 inches. I have quite a few so called “TARP fish” but I have never put in for the certificates. I know a lot of states have a similar program. The largest crappie for crappie that has ever been submitted was 19.75 inches. It’s a pretty good program. They will give out Master Angler certificates for folks that get a TARP for the 25 species on their list....now that is pretty impressive.....to get a trophy sized fish for all the 25 specie.

Regards

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Well, now that’s a pretty cool program. Alabamy doesn’t do anything like that. If they did they’d have to come up with a different name because AARP is already taken. I fished with CrappieFlopper last week and I’m pretty sure he’s already an AARP. LOL
04-18-2018, 06:50 AM
Alphahawk

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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Well, now that’s a pretty cool program. Alabamy doesn’t do anything like that. If they did they’d have to come up with a different name because AARP is already taken. I fished with CrappieFlopper last week and I’m pretty sure he’s already an AARP. LOL

Actually they do.....and it has much tougher lengths than the TN program.

Regards

http://dev.eregulations.com.php56-6.phx1-2.websitetestlink.com/alabama/16alab/angler-recognition-program/
04-18-2018, 07:00 AM
clangford

Congrats on the fish! What a catch!
04-18-2018, 10:42 AM
footballcoach

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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

Well, now that’s a pretty cool program. Alabamy doesn’t do anything like that. If they did they’d have to come up with a different name because AARP is already taken. I fished with CrappieFlopper last week and I’m pretty sure he’s already an AARP. LOL

Get off us old folks Fur. Especially Phillip. Were you not told to respect your elders like me and Phillip.
04-18-2018, 11:59 AM
FurFlyin

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Originally Posted by footballcoach

Get off us old folks Fur. Especially Phillip. Were you not told to respect your elders like me and Phillip.

LOL Yessir, sorry coach. I'm SO much younger than you two that I better act right. Surely you're not as old as Phillip. There's dirt on our place younger than him.
04-18-2018, 12:05 PM
FurFlyin

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Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Actually they do.....and it has much tougher lengths than the TN program.

Regards

http://dev.eregulations.com.php56-6.phx1-2.websitetestlink.com/alabama/16alab/angler-recognition-program/

Well how about that. I had no idee. I've caught a couple of different fish that would have been recognized, but not a crappie big enough yet. I've caught 2 15" fish in the past 6 months but neither of them weighed 2.5 lbs
04-19-2018, 06:23 AM
FIN

Interesting topic
04-20-2018, 06:16 AM
wannabe fisherman

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Originally Posted by FurFlyin

What's a TARP crappie?

that's a Crappie that's big enough to cover your boat ! :Rofl
04-20-2018, 06:25 AM
Ketchn

that's a dandy crappie for sure ...congrats