TARP size White crappie 10/24/18

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10-24-2018, 09:25 PM
drumking

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TARP size White crappie 10/24/18

My daughter and son in law came down this morning and had breakfast with us and after a little shopping trip to the grocery store, suddenly I had a crappie itch, so I asked Wanda if she would take me to a ramp near our home and launch me for an afternoon fishing trip.

I launched and fished alone alone for an hour or so and then Candi texted me and said that she was just getting back in town from Gatlinburg and I told her where I was fishing and offered my back seat for a couple of hours.

Right after she sent the text, I caught a 14.75” White crappie that I thought for a while was a bass as hard as it was fighting. I sent her the text and she said she was coming to the ramp. Grin.

We fished deep brush off shore and caught several fish, mostly 9 to 10 inch fish, but we did manage a few keepers. I had another over 12” and I think maybe we had 6 or 7 keepers total, but we released most of the fish including the big girl. She will weigh 2.5 lbs in February. I caught 9 crappie off a new bamboo hotel that I put out about 3 months ago.

On my first stop before Candi texted me to tell me that she was back in town, I went to a new bamboo hotel that I placed on the main river channel and I was a little concerned that maybe the 100,000 plus flow rate that we had for a few days because of the flooding that we had, had washed the hotel away, but it didn’t. I spotted it on my graph and it had a school of spotted bass in it. I had 4 hookups, landed two, had the fish on the first cast jump off at the boat after a spirited fight. The last one broke my 4 lb test line. I should have retired the line.

Wind out out of the north and nearly whitecapping and water surface temp was 68.7 when I launched at 2:30 and was the same when I quit at 4:30.

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10-24-2018, 09:52 PM
ET Fish

Great report! Candi has you standing on your head!
10-24-2018, 09:58 PM
Slabprowler

Great job! Thanks for sharing!
10-25-2018, 06:10 AM
Kingfish1

Congrats on the TARP! Nice afternoon of fishing.:)
10-25-2018, 05:42 PM
Pantastic

I think you have given docks up all together. Not like the old day reports.
10-25-2018, 06:08 PM
M GO BLUE

14-3/4" is a STUD!!!
10-26-2018, 04:52 AM
Jerry Bryant

Nothing like family time on the water fishing!! Love those memories!!!
10-26-2018, 07:13 AM
drumking

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pantastic

I think you have given docks up all together. Not like the old day reports.

Gene, I have taught so many fishermen how I shoot docks for crappie that we now have a great number of people fishing docks and I figured out a few years ago that unless I changed my method of fishing, that I would be having a lot of competition for the fish under docks. Dock fishing is still a lot of fun and you are right, I don't do that a lot, but it is still enjoyable. I wanted to learn to fish off shore and set out doing just that. More bass fishermen fish off shore, but they don't really compete for the fish that I am looking for. After the spawn and until the fish make their fall migration back to the shallows, I find much bigger fish on the main river channel drops, cuts, ledges, etc. that I fish. Some of these spots, I have never seen another angler fishing them.

I quit posting on CFF because I have to re-size my pics to get them posted. That is a major pain in my behind and I decided to just post elsewhere. Also, there was beginning to be a lot of bickering on that forum and that just about ruined it. People quit posting about how to catch fish and so on. You know what I mean. Thanks for the comments, Gene.
10-26-2018, 07:53 PM
StantheMan2567

The winds of change are here, but looks as if the fishing hasn’t changed much....still catching them, and a good one to boot! Harvested my deer so I might get back out there some this Fall. Not much time in the afternoon now through the week, will have to fish on the weekends.

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10-27-2018, 01:01 PM
CUonthelake

Thanks for picking me up at the ramp. I must have still had my head in the Smokey mountains you forgot to report that I only caught a few fish while you put on a clinic. Always a great time fishing with my teacher!
10-27-2018, 03:34 PM
Pantastic

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Originally Posted by drumking

Gene, I have taught so many fishermen how I shoot docks for crappie that we now have a great number of people fishing docks and I figured out a few years ago that unless I changed my method of fishing, that I would be having a lot of competition for the fish under docks. Dock fishing is still a lot of fun and you are right, I don't do that a lot, but it is still enjoyable. I wanted to learn to fish off shore and set out doing just that. More bass fishermen fish off shore, but they don't really compete for the fish that I am looking for. After the spawn and until the fish make their fall migration back to the shallows, I find much bigger fish on the main river channel drops, cuts, ledges, etc. that I fish. Some of these spots, I have never seen another angler fishing them.

I quit posting on CFF because I have to re-size my pics to get them posted. That is a major pain in my behind and I decided to just post elsewhere. Also, there was beginning to be a lot of bickering on that forum and that just about ruined it. People quit posting about how to catch fish and so on. You know what I mean. Thanks for the comments, Gene.

Yes I know what you mean. I remember when crappie fishing posts began drying up on CFF. I think I saw a strange timing of this right to about the time competition fishing started in the area. Seems to me the sport becomes all about take with no give and fellowship taking a back seat after this sets in.