Eights and Aces

The black episodes have begun , wet some of my Limits Tackle black beauties the other day (the no paint minnow head versions in 1/8 oz.) . The results were less than disappointing for sure ! One fish that came in at 2lb.3oz. hit it so hard it about took my rod from my hand !
Now mind you this , I was with an Ace at crappie ketchn and in the end I needed a couple or 3 for my freezer . So I kept 8 large and he filleted the rest and to be sure it was good times .
Water temperature was 58 to 59 . It was heavy fog when we started and stayed pretty nice until we left before lunch time . The lake of course was crowded on a weekend visit , but we stayed to ourselves .
Watched 5 guys across the lake in one boat single pole my buddies new brush pile for the ENTIRE 3 hours we were there !
Left with 25 nice fat ones , we hit a gauntlet type scenario where a creek channel runs close to a point and fished open water no cover on the bottom . the fish were roaming the shore in about 17 foot of water and wanted the presentation drug across the bottom .
The actual reason for the trip was 2 fold , had to drop off his black hand ties I got him for Christmas and needed to wet my whistle for some rod bending as well .
Don't know what the "best" 8 weighed but did put 2 on the hand scale for grins before they met the knife.
That my friends is my fishee story and I am sticking it to them:Cowboy
KABOOM is the word btw .....:crazy:

Wow! Those are some beauties! Black sure was the color of the day!!
Bob

Those are some beauties! Both the fish and the jigs. KABOOM!!!

KABOOM!



Love your "Fishee" stories my friend.

Mike

Great catch!

Boom, Boom and KABOOM!

Quality fish there

I see the straw hat is working again! Congrats. :highfive

Yep, look like whales to me.....: )
Way to go Ketchn!!

Dude, what a day!


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KABOOM for sure!!!

Made some first thing this morning Ketch,,,,but mine went with black head

Many thanks to all for the nice comments , it was a really nice outing . my 8 fish made me 5 quart bags and one dinner :highfive
Them fish were sure enough pulling hard that day, one broke me off , thank goodness I had a few more black jigs with me .
AND>>>>>
this brings me to ....THE GIVEAWAY !
watch and soon I will let a few slide off to some fortunate crappie.com individual !
KABOOM is the word yawl ....:Cowboy

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Originally Posted by Takeum

Made some first thing this morning Ketch,,,,but mine went with black head

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been rather deadly over here on one lake we like, I mean EXTRA DEADLY !

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Originally Posted by happycaster58

I see the straw hat is working again! Congrats. :highfive

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its a new one I got last summer , sure is nice ,highly "flexible" straw of some sort , comfy and durable so far ....
plus it is still summer in these parts , the ac is on and we are still sweating , just saying :Rofl

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

its a new one I got last summer , sure is nice ,highly "flexible" straw of some sort , comfy and durable so far ....
plus it is still summer in these parts , the ac is on and we are still sweating , just saying :Rofl

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A/C has been on for the last few days here in Tennessee as well. Been unseasonably warm and rainy here since Christmas Eve

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

The black episodes have begun , wet some of my Limits Tackle black beauties the other day (the no paint minnow head versions in 1/8 oz.) . The results were less than disappointing for sure ! One fish that came in at 2lb.3oz. hit it so hard it about took my rod from my hand !
Now mind you this , I was with an Ace at crappie ketchn and in the end I needed a couple or 3 for my freezer . So I kept 8 large and he filleted the rest and to be sure it was good times .
Water temperature was 58 to 59 . It was heavy fog when we started and stayed pretty nice until we left before lunch time . The lake of course was crowded on a weekend visit , but we stayed to ourselves .
Watched 5 guys across the lake in one boat single pole my buddies new brush pile for the ENTIRE 3 hours we were there !
Left with 25 nice fat ones , we hit a gauntlet type scenario where a creek channel runs close to a point and fished open water no cover on the bottom . the fish were roaming the shore in about 17 foot of water and wanted the presentation drug across the bottom .
The actual reason for the trip was 2 fold , had to drop off his black hand ties I got him for Christmas and needed to wet my whistle for some rod bending as well .
Don't know what the "best" 8 weighed but did put 2 on the hand scale for grins before they met the knife.
That my friends is my fishee story and I am sticking it to them:Cowboy
KABOOM is the word btw .....:crazy:

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HI Ketchn
If you don't mind me asking WHAT IN THE WORLD do you do with these tons of crappie


chet

Like many of us probably makes sure those who need it or love it get plenty of his ketch. I know I give 80% of my sacks away. plus have several friends that I simply call up and tell them there is a bucket o crappie on my deck. Or at LSL will deliver to several who will clean them without my having to do it, which is way better!

Or my son has key to couple of my condo/cabins and will clean me out when he goes there. which is fine as his crew are my boys and have big crappie fries and love them some filets. simply gives me a reason to go out and ketch some more. can't stand to not have bags o crappie in all my freezers in case someone wants some.

Love those black jigs but I would have a chartreuse head on half of them or pink for the contrast and see which ones the crappie like better.

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Originally Posted by hdhntr

Like many of us probably makes sure those who need it or love it get plenty of his ketch. I know I give 80% of my sacks away. plus have several friends that I simply call up and tell them there is a bucket o crappie on my deck. Or at LSL will deliver to several who will clean them without my having to do it, which is way better!

Or my son has key to couple of my condo/cabins and will clean me out when he goes there. which is fine as his crew are my boys and have big crappie fries and love them some filets. simply gives me a reason to go out and ketch some more. can't stand to not have bags o crappie in all my freezers in case someone wants some.

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If i caught near that. i'd probably get 3 yrs in jail LOL

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Originally Posted by chetc

HI Ketchn
If you don't mind me asking WHAT IN THE WORLD do you do with these tons of crappie


chet

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I restock my freezer about once every 2 or 3 months , 4 or 5 quart bags most of the time with 3 servings per bag .
We eat fish once every week to 10 days ,sometimes I keep a few for the less fortunate, but that is spotty .
most of what gets in the livewell with that buddy gets donated to others , church , law enforcement and family and or friends .
the rest of the time and that is most of the time ,they get set free by me ....

I keep a few to eat the rest go free. I make sure the neighbors have some when they want them. We do a fish fry once or twice a year. A lot of that fish is eater cats from a jug fishing trip or two

we basically only eat crappie , once in a bluemoon we keep some gills too .....
the buddy I was with also targets channel cats , I dont go on those trips as you might have imagined ....:Rofl
had a conversation about it the other, bud said why on earth would anyone eat sandbass/aka white bass ....
after some thought and discussing it we came up with they prolly cant ketch crappie .....:Rofl

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

we basically only eat crappie , once in a bluemoon we keep some gills too .....
the buddy I was with also targets channel cats , I dont go on those trips as you might have imagined ....:Rofl
had a conversation about it the other, bud said why on earth would anyone eat sandbass/aka white bass ....
after some thought and discussing it we came up with they prolly cant ketch crappie .....:Rofl

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That's funny