Lake Palestine is HOT right now

2 things in the post. Fishing and my new boat! haha. Went to buy a new used boat and well ended up with a new bass boat. This was Weds May 1st. I did my two hours of break in and decided I would try and fish for a short bit. By the way, the new 4 stroke engine is not hard to break in, but the fist hour, especially with a hotfoot is brutal as you can only go 1500 RPM's for a hour, then 3000 for the second hour. Anyway, decided to fish so I went to the 155 bridge, dropped about 12 feet down and did a slow troll around the pylons. I caught about 10 in an hour. The next day, I came out again with minnows. Did the same, slow troll under the bridge and limited out with nice sized ones in just over an hour. I have been 2 more times in the last three days and limited out each time. Jiggs (different colors uses) are ok, but minnows are killing it. I have caught close to 90 keepers in the last week and probably thrown back 25-30. I did not get pics of them, but I got some today with just 10, that is all I could carry at one time to the cleaning station in a small bucket and took a selfie with my first fish in the new boat. Hope this helps. Sorry I also have to show the boat off! :-)

BTW, just looked at the pic and the fish look small, but the smallest I had was 13 inches, so I guess a disclaimer should be made. FISH APPEAR SMALLER IN PICTURE THAN IN REAL LIFE.

Wow, nice boat!’ Good fish too!


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Nice ride! Yup, I’d have to do a little showing it off too. Very nice, bet you can’t wait to throw the hammer down in it.

Very nice. Congratulations on the new boat.

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Congrats on the ride and the catches.... Very Nice....

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Nice ride! Yup, I’d have to do a little showing it off too. Very nice, bet you can’t wait to throw the hammer down in it.

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Thank you! Well unfortunately I did that already, throwing the hammer down and scared the crap out of myself. haha. After the 2 hours of break in you can go full throttle but not for more than 5 minutes at a time for another 8 hours. I got up to 69.9, stopped and changed my underwear. I guess I need to learn to bass fish or this will be the most expensive crappie boat in history!

that there is a ridiculous nice ride bro ….congrats :cheers2

Sweet ride! Congrats

Well everybody, I was at the boat ramp today at Palestine and had the pleasure of having this boat pull up beside me. It is even better looking in person than the pictures. Had an opportunity to meet Chris for the first time. Class act. He gave me the crappie he and a friend had caught and then helped me clean them. Thank you, sir!

Great boat and super report!! Thanks for your service and sacrifice!!

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Originally Posted by Lake Life

Well everybody, I was at the boat ramp today at Palestine and had the pleasure of having this boat pull up beside me. It is even better looking in person than the pictures. Had an opportunity to meet Chris for the first time. Class act. He gave me the crappie he and a friend had caught and then helped me clean them. Thank you, sir!

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Was great meeting you and your son also. Kind of caught me off guard when you asked if that was the boat from the forum. haha. Small world. Went out again this morning, only caught three before the weather started turning around. I am thinking the South wind had something to do with it also. The lake was calm, almost glass under the bridge. The 3 we caught were all around 15 inches. Would have liked to have about 25 of them.

OK, not going to give the exact pole numbers as to make sure nobody is in my spot, but over the past week I have caught well over 120 crappie on lake Palestine. I am under the 155 bridge. I have used both live minnows (my fav) but also purple jigs. For Jigs I tie to pretty heavy weights on, then a leader about 8 inches for the jig. I troll around all of the poles and pull them out. The reason for the two weights is that it has to get down to about 12-14 feet where they are, but you also have to be moving and with just a jig, it will rise. The other day the water was glass so I had my trolling motor set to about 50%. Just troll right by them, they will reach out and you will know when you have one. Unlike dropping the line down and moving it up and down, you are covering a lot of space. If you get a hit, I make another pass and keep doing that until I have no hits. I will move to the next set of poles, work down and then turn around and do those same poles again. Yesterday I limited out in just over an hour, went to shore picked up a friend and his wife, broght them back out to the same set of poles and almost limited them out.