Afternoon Trip 10/7/20

Printable View

10-07-2020, 07:54 PM
gabowman

1 Attachment(s)

Afternoon Trip 10/7/20

Today was my "Friday" at work and I get off work daily at 4PM. I work a 5 days on and 3 days off schedule. So.....Got home and checked my trolling battery since I havent did anything with my boat in.........months. Also fired her off to make sure she'd crank. Since everything seemed to work well I decided to fish this afternoon so I hitched 'er up, grabbed a cold drink and headed that way. Fish bit good longlining in 15'-18' of water. Sometimes had 2 on at a time and once had 3 on at one time. Temp was 75.5*. Water was clear. Plenty of bait balls and seemed to be plenty of fish hugging bottom under the bait. Fished until 7PM and called it since I was gonna clean fish this evening. Lots of fun catching since I haven't fished since May of this year and I'm really forwards to some fresh fried fish soon.;) Here's what I brought home....

Attachment 386071
10-07-2020, 08:44 PM
dbowling

nice looking mess of fish.
10-07-2020, 09:12 PM
CrappieKidd

Man that is putting on a hurt in quick time what in two hours? Thanks for the report.
10-08-2020, 08:45 AM
sinkermaker

Nice catch Butch thanks for sharing. Looking forward to my first trip if things get settled down some. I had to go to the VA yesterday and have a heart monitor installed.
10-08-2020, 09:59 AM
DSorrow08

That’s awesome! Glad you got a chance to go! I switched to a Monday-Friday from shift work about a year ago and ever since it’s been hard to get opportunities to fish like I would like. Glad you got a nice mess so fast!
10-08-2020, 11:00 AM
Special K

Very nicely done. Well Butch, it's gettin' to be the time of year when a man doesn't have to worry about dying of heat exhaustion tryin' to catch a mess of fish.
I am prepping my boat to get after 'em hard... and before it gets so cold and windy. Thanks for sharing your day with the rest of us.
10-08-2020, 01:31 PM
BigDawgg

You the Man! Great looking mess of fish.
10-08-2020, 02:49 PM
ofishlbizzness

That’s a beat down! When you gonna start giving me lessons?

Sent from my iPhone using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app
10-08-2020, 03:18 PM
scgrubbs

what lake???

Quote:

Originally Posted by gabowman

Today was my "Friday" at work and I get off work daily at 4PM. I work a 5 days on and 3 days off schedule. So.....Got home and checked my trolling battery since I havent did anything with my boat in.........months. Also fired her off to make sure she'd crank. Since everything seemed to work well I decided to fish this afternoon so I hitched 'er up, grabbed a cold drink and headed that way. Fish bit good longlining in 15'-18' of water. Sometimes had 2 on at a time and once had 3 on at one time. Temp was 75.5*. Water was clear. Plenty of bait balls and seemed to be plenty of fish hugging bottom under the bait. Fished until 7PM and called it since I was gonna clean fish this evening. Lots of fun catching since I haven't fished since May of this year and I'm really forwards to some fresh fried fish soon.;) Here's what I brought home....

Attachment 386071

What lake
10-08-2020, 03:55 PM
NCkenner

You are definitely THE MAN!

Chris
10-08-2020, 05:33 PM
Redge

Nice livewell shot!

Sent from my iPhone using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app
10-08-2020, 08:27 PM
gabowman

Lake Russell (in my back yard)! I don't fish it much....prefer Clark Hill.
10-08-2020, 08:47 PM
gabowman

Quote:

Originally Posted by DSorrow08

That’s awesome! Glad you got a chance to go! I switched to a Monday-Friday from shift work about a year ago and ever since it’s been hard to get opportunities to fish like I would like. Glad you got a nice mess so fast!

DS, I work a 5-3 schedule. Not a lot of weekends off but I love those 3 days off every time I work 5. I took a straw boss job about a year working M-F and 1 W/E a month for a year a half but when the opportunity came along for me to roll back to my old job I jumped on it. The money was a lot better....but everything isn't always about the dollar. Atleast for me at this time in my life it isn't. I intend on riding it out for another year where I'm at and then hang up my spurs as I'll be nearing the big "65".:)
10-08-2020, 08:53 PM
gabowman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Special K

Very nicely done. Well Butch, it's gettin' to be the time of year when a man doesn't have to worry about dying of heat exhaustion tryin' to catch a mess of fish.
I am prepping my boat to get after 'em hard... and before it gets so cold and windy. Thanks for sharing your day with the rest of us.

Go get 'em Special K!:) I'll be doing ALOT more hunting than I will fishing until the 1st of the year gets here. Every now and again I'll take a break from hunting and try putting a few fish in the boat though.