Clark Hill 12/3/21

Decided to switch things up and instead of hunting I went fishing. Knocked the dust off the boat and rods yesterday and enjoyed a very nice warm, sunny, windless day on the water. Trolled around awhile with big motor looking not finding much but put out lines anyway. Only caught a half doz perch after 30 minutes of longlining. Time to move.

On the second stop I saw fish on the graph immediately. And it was non stop on the graph. I should have tried single pole jigging on the bottom but I'm just too hung up on long lining. Ha!

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Trick was getting jigs down to them but I did alright. Fished there for awhile and made another move finding the same thing on the finder. Lines were deep and fish bit sparingly. Like before picking up one or two here and there.

Size wasnt the best. Wished I was catching fish the size tackleboat caught but it wasnt happening for me today. Anyway...finished the day with a respectable...

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...45 crappie caught. I kept enough to feed me, Deb, Dad, and his wife one evening next week. I dont know when I'll get to go again but today was fun. Since retired you would think I'd have more time now but so far I've had 9 irons in the fire every day. I quit fishing at 1PM today leaving 'em biting. But there will be another day of catching in my future (if the Good Lord's willing). Here's the fish I brought home.

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if the good lord's willing and the creeks dont rise..... I need to stay out of the woods and go fishing too!

Great day, congratulations

Ya'll go ahead and get out of the woods and leave those deer alone! Just run them to me! :Rofl Nice catching and I bet they going to be right tasty. Good day fishing beats not having to dressing a deer, I guess! I like the arches your unit is showing it really sets your heart to racing when you see fish like that. Good job! :highfive

Nice job Butch! Thanks for sharing. I received a report a few days ago that the longlining was tough at best. I guess it pays to know how to get to them.

Chris


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My neighbor and I fished the Hill Friday and did about the same as you. The early bite was the best but once the sun got up it slowed way down. Trash on the water kept me from fishing some of the spots I wanted to fish so around 11:00 we loaded up and moved. The second spot was not much better but at least there weren't as many leaves on the water. Noticed a lot of single pole fishing at the second spot. The fish we did catch were deep esp. as the sun got higher. I'm like you. It's long lining for me.

Nice mess of fish!


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Nice box of fish

Sounds like a great trip! Thank you for sharing it with us

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Nice catch Butch thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the report Butch! I was one of the ones complaining about the slow longline fishing this fall. Nearly all my crappie have come off brush, and now it looks like the brushpiles are thinning out too, and I'm starting to catch as many or more crappie on the clean bottom, just like in your pics! But any day on the water is a blessing for sure!

Enjoyed your report Butch, nice catch for having to bottom fish. I find most fish I catch when the water temps drop are on the bottom.

Nice mess. Yea this hunting is messing up my fishing to. Stripers biting on Wateree, but I got a nice 10 pt that keeps calling my name. lol.

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Originally Posted by cwright

Nice mess. Yea this hunting is messing up my fishing to. Stripers biting on Wateree, but I got a nice 10 pt that keeps calling my name. lol.

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Good luck to you. I'm going striper fishing Monday with Remus. I'm putting off my deer until this weekend. He has beaten me at every turn so far but they always mess up once and I hope to be there when he does! Hope to see your smiling face with him being held up for the picture! :highfive

Personally, I'm getting a bit tired of hunting. Ive been going as much as I could when working and now retired since bow season opened back in early September. There are two deer where I hunt I'd like to kill. Ones a wide 9 pointer and the other is a nice big tall and wide 8 pointer. IMO anyone would be pleased with with either one. Both of these deer only show themselves after dark and frankly I'm getting tired of waiting for them to show. Fairly warm weather returns next week. I hope to get some more fishing time in then.

Hope to see you and Remus on the water monday, BigDawgg. Just hope I don't run over any deer getting there :Rofl

I can't wiat to get some time off from making tp, so i can go get me some slabs like that. nice mess of fish. i can see me now with about 10-20 poles out trying to catch a mess. LOL

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Originally Posted by Hendog79

I can't wiat to get some time off from making tp, so i can go get me some slabs like that. nice mess of fish. i can see me now with about 10-20 poles out trying to catch a mess. LOL

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Hey! If I can do it then I know you can do it. Get geared up and go get 'em!;):)