20 keepers

in 3 hours is ok for some ,but a bit slow for others .
we hit 11 spots and only 1 to 3 keepers to a spot .
ran the lake from far north to far south and there wasn't a real solid pattern best I could tell ya .
move fast and fish slow is what i hear works pretty well .....rotfl
most of the fish were at 5 to 10 foot deep in waters ranging from 7 to 18 foot deep .
very large amounts of schooled up shad on the surface everywhere .
bites were for the most part a bit more solid than they have been .
not real hard thumps but to be sure some took it hard enough to be considered a thump .
even found us 2 black crappie in the mix and they are pretty rare in there .
the dinks were in lower numbers than what has been the norm too.
will try another location today maybe and might go hit that one in a day or so again as well .
the good news is we didn't break any rods and i tried a new set up i put together .
it is a one pc 7 and in the medium fast puppy range .
water temp 83 when we started in the morning and heard tell it was 88 that afternoon .
some fish were on cover , but several were just suspended near drop offs on the break points .
best fish was in the 13 inch range ,but most ran around 10.5 to 12 inches .
orange and pink colors worked best and yes we dropped lots of color on them .
was fun no doubt :highfive

that's what you have to do this time of year, move constantly and hunt em up! couple here, one there, still fun and challenging to getrdone.

I’ve never caught 20 in 3 hours! LOL. Great report Ketchn. God Bless


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I’ve never caught 20 in 3 hours! LOL. Great report Ketchn. God Bless


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drag that boat over to mineral wells and let's go ketch a herd sometime soon , when the water temp drops 10 degrees it will likely be a ketchn festival out there , bet we can get 20 fish easily on you line in an hour or less :highfive

Good job....kaboom

Awesome. I love those platinum color jigs from Limits Tackle. KABOOM!!!

Here lately 20 in 3 hours would be pretty good numbers. Most of the time I fight my way through the dinks

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Here lately 20 in 3 hours would be pretty good numbers. Most of the time I fight my way through the dinks

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For me that many in a couple days would be awesome.


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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Here lately 20 in 3 hours would be pretty good numbers. Most of the time I fight my way through the dinks

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it has been like that the last few weeks on the wade thru the shorts thing , the shorts slowed up some the last trip for some reason ? :dono

It is so much better than a skunk.

You won't like fishn my lakes..... The fish here just don't stack up like that..... Sometimes you might get 10 on a pile but that's rare....2 maybe 3 then you've gotta move......200 in a hour just ain't gonna happen here....LOL :Rofl

we try to keep the speed down on the bamboo piles to 100 an hour bro .....:Rofl
200 is way to fast for us older fellas rotfl

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It is so much better than a skunk.

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skunks are rare here , we avoid them if they seem near , it could happen i suppose , but hopefully not any time soon rotfl

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Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures

You won't like fishn my lakes..... The fish here just don't stack up like that..... Sometimes you might get 10 on a pile but that's rare....2 maybe 3 then you've gotta move......200 in a hour just ain't gonna happen here....LOL :Rofl

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we are just trying to save on gas in the boat , that running and gunning is lots of work , roll up drop jig set the hook and repeat .
sometimes we have to hunt a bit for them , but in the end there is typically a spot somewhere out there where there is a herd waiting for a jig to drop on them :highfive

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we try to keep the speed down on the bamboo piles to 100 an hour bro .....:Rofl
200 is way to fast for us older fellas rotfl

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LOL..... Live Scope has confirmed what I've suspected for years..... It's not that my lake don't have the numbers of fish the rest take of after a few are caught..... And no I'm not waiting on them to settle down and maybe come back.....
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Spooky fish are crappie for sure

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You won't like fishn my lakes..... The fish here just don't stack up like that..... Sometimes you might get 10 on a pile but that's rare....2 maybe 3 then you've gotta move......200 in a hour just ain't gonna happen here....LOL :Rofl

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I think it has a lot to do with how pressured the fish are. I used to fish a set of docks that had a steady line of boat in front of them. You could manage 1 maybe 2 fish then nothing. Next guy was the same. 6 docks in a row. Move the lake a 1/2 mile to a run down abandoned dock and pull fish after fish out from under it. I would hit that dock about twice a week. After a month and a half the number these fish started becoming pressured and not as easy to catch.

Very nice catch!

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I think it has a lot to do with how pressured the fish are. I used to fish a set of docks that had a steady line of boat in front of them. You could manage 1 maybe 2 fish then nothing. Next guy was the same. 6 docks in a row. Move the lake a 1/2 mile to a run down abandoned dock and pull fish after fish out from under it. I would hit that dock about twice a week. After a month and a half the number these fish started becoming pressured and not as easy to catch.

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reduced numbers of dumb fish and the ones left are hard to ketch from being so highly educated in the art of escape .
see that here on the real good winter docks , get there early or it will be fished to death before you get there .

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reduced numbers of dumb fish and the ones left are hard to ketch from being so highly educated in the art of escape .
see that here on the real good winter docks , get there early or it will be fished to death before you get there .

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Very true

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in 3 hours is ok for some ,but a bit slow for others .
we hit 11 spots and only 1 to 3 keepers to a spot .
ran the lake from far north to far south and there wasn't a real solid pattern best I could tell ya .
move fast and fish slow is what i hear works pretty well .....rotfl
most of the fish were at 5 to 10 foot deep in waters ranging from 7 to 18 foot deep .
very large amounts of schooled up shad on the surface everywhere .
bites were for the most part a bit more solid than they have been .
not real hard thumps but to be sure some took it hard enough to be considered a thump .
even found us 2 black crappie in the mix and they are pretty rare in there .
the dinks were in lower numbers than what has been the norm too.
will try another location today maybe and might go hit that one in a day or so again as well .
the good news is we didn't break any rods and i tried a new set up i put together .
it is a one pc 7 and in the medium fast puppy range .
water temp 83 when we started in the morning and heard tell it was 88 that afternoon .
some fish were on cover , but several were just suspended near drop offs on the break points .
best fish was in the 13 inch range ,but most ran around 10.5 to 12 inches .
orange and pink colors worked best and yes we dropped lots of color on them .
was fun no doubt :highfive

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I have been fishing every evening on the East End of Toledo Bend reservoir we managed to catch a few Crappie every evening with a mixture of bluegill and largemouth bass we are fishing in about 8 to 10 foot of water using small hair jigs like you say large amount of shed on the surface we have a strike zone about 45 minutes in the evening and after that no more fish. We did try stingers but they would not touch them.

we have a spot like that with just crappie in it , about an hour before dark for about 45 minutes it is really good and then poof they are gone .
darn sneaky nomad fish i swear :banghead

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we have a spot like that with just crappie in it , about an hour before dark for about 45 minutes it is really good and then poof they are gone .
darn sneaky nomad fish i swear :banghead

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Have had places like that also and you have to wait until that last bit of daytime to get bit, but then I have also had spots on this lake that were either hot or cold, but the best one ever was so good most will not believe what it was like. I only fished this spot for one or 2 years before I moved away, but I never went there in the fall that with myself and one other person, didn't matter if it was my wife for another guy that was a good fishermen or poor one, we would average 60 to 70 per hour. This was way back in like 1980 and I just learned about long lining by accident. Thought about using my troll motor to do what the wind did for me one day drifting over some flats. That was the thing that turned me into longline trolling crappie fishing.

Just to let all know I am not an idiot because that spot is still here, but it need Hydrilla big time and we don't have Hydrilla big time any more. Maybe it will return one day and if it does that spot will still be a killer! No other spot like this on this lake! I did go back to see and the Hydrilla was not there like it use to be and neither were the crappie!

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