The walk of Shame

There are times when you just guess and hope for the best . Such was the case yesterday , heard tell the fish were up in a creek I have visited a few times .
My bud said "take me there , never been there " . Told him this about that , bluebird days in there aren't typically the best, but sometimes it don't matter , said sometimes .....
So we hit the brush and walked the creek a bit , first stop first cast ....FLOAT bye bye ....
Score ONE for the home team , missed it like a big dog ......:Rofl
Next time it went see ya , went to the visiting team and I told him this about that, see there my friend , they ARE in here ......
AND up came a small sandbass ...................:banghead
Well we walked and walked and the more we casted the more obvious it became. The crappie left the creek as they often do in there about this time of year and were replaced with darn sand bass and yellow bass !
We did managed to ketch 2 small crappie though WAY down stream and hammered the lips of mostly small sandbass in route .
So after about 50 fish we headed back to work with our tails tucked on the walk of shame . Forgive me for such sad news if you will , but as of yesterday it seems the creek bite is a next year thing unless you just like to ketch them stupid striped fish. :crazy:
I will try to get back on some crappie hopefully later this week , but as of now I will just hold my head down with that sad look until that time comes .
The good news is my buddy thunk it was really fun and was all smiles and to be honest they were biting really well and a few of the larger specimens really pulled like they meant it .
stay tuned for some future KABOOM , yesterday was not , my bad though for not wearing any crappie.com lucky gear ....nonono
went in bare and came out sad ....there ya have it
the truth can be stranger than fiction don't ya know:highfive

Seems like plenty of action even if it is not the intended target

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

Seems like plenty of action even if it is not the intended target

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to be honest YES sir , even though they are not what I wanted to ketch .
they are really stupid and bite really hard and fast .
nothing like some white/yellow/hybrid/striper fish to save the day on the rod bend for sure :Rofl

I would have loved it... totally skunked my last trip. Now there is your walk of shame.. :Rofl
Good job as always Ketchn even if not exactly what you were looking for. :highfive

Yeah, it’s hard to feel any real sympathy here. Jeez! That was a real nice day in my book, that’s for sure. You will be on ‘Em next time. Thanks for the ride along!
Bob

Good day on the creek even though you didn’t have much Slab success. I too would have enjoyed your day.

I would have killed for a few nibbles my last outing on Monday. Just a lot of wind, line-watching, and bobbers floating too high on the water. No disappearing floats. Good times

you were watching bobbers dance and dive and ketchn something. Great day in my book and bet someone would like a mess o those to clean and cook.

The walk of Shame? In my case it just seems normal. :Rofl Ya'all did good in my book.

Those small striped Tasmanian devils make a pretty good sammich if you remove the red. Jus sayin.....
Kaboom!

HA !! I remember days when I was a young'un (50+yrs ago) walking the bank of the river end of a local lake ... just for the specific intention of catching a stringer full of White Bass. Back then there was no size limit and the creel limit was 60 (best I remember). It was not uncommon to see anglers heading back to their vehicles with a stringer full draped over their shoulder & dragging the ground behind them. Back in those days I remember it being called a "nationally known" phenomenon and people from far & wide would come to get their fill of these tasty torpedoes.

(quoted from Ky Afield ) "Dix River ... drips with fishing history as Herrington Lake was a White Bass mecca in the era after World War II. These waters still produce trophy white bass 14 inches and longer."

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Originally Posted by CrappiePappy

HA !! I remember days when I was a young'un (50+yrs ago) walking the bank of the river end of a local lake ... just for the specific intention of catching a stringer full of White Bass. Back then there was no size limit and the creel limit was 60 (best I remember). It was not uncommon to see anglers heading back to their vehicles with a stringer full draped over their shoulder & dragging the ground behind them. Back in those days I remember it being called a "nationally known" phenomenon and people from far & wide would come to get their fill of these tasty torpedoes.

(quoted from Ky Afield ) "Dix River ... drips with fishing history as Herrington Lake was a White Bass mecca in the era after World War II. These waters still produce trophy white bass 14 inches and longer."

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LOL , no doubt ,back in the day ,some 50 years ago , our limit on sandbass AND crappie was as many as you can keep in an "edible" condition .....no size limit either ....:Rofl
I was telling a fellow yesterday about me and a bud with around 250 sandbass aka white bass on a stringer and when it was time to call it , we hooked a long rope to the chevy impala and the stringer to pull it up the steep bank to load them up ! AND that aint a fish story :highfive

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Originally Posted by NCkenner

Those small striped Tasmanian devils make a pretty good sammich if you remove the red. Jus sayin.....
Kaboom!

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LOL , that is EXACTLY what the next fishee story is about my friend ......KABOOM is the word :Rofl

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Originally Posted by hdhntr

you were watching bobbers dance and dive and ketchn something. Great day in my book and bet someone would like a mess o those to clean and cook.

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dive they sure do , them striped fish dont play around on the take , they dive bomb your float like it got sunk by a torpedo :Rofl

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

There are times when you just guess and hope for the best . Such was the case yesterday , heard tell the fish were up in a creek I have visited a few times .
My bud said "take me there , never been there " . Told him this about that , bluebird days in there aren't typically the best, but sometimes it don't matter , said sometimes .....
So we hit the brush and walked the creek a bit , first stop first cast ....FLOAT bye bye ....
Score ONE for the home team , missed it like a big dog ......:Rofl
Next time it went see ya , went to the visiting team and I told him this about that, see there my friend , they ARE in here ......
AND up came a small sandbass ...................:banghead
Well we walked and walked and the more we casted the more obvious it became. The crappie left the creek as they often do in there about this time of year and were replaced with darn sand bass and yellow bass !
We did managed to ketch 2 small crappie though WAY down stream and hammered the lips of mostly small sandbass in route .
So after about 50 fish we headed back to work with our tails tucked on the walk of shame . Forgive me for such sad news if you will , but as of yesterday it seems the creek bite is a next year thing unless you just like to ketch them stupid striped fish. :crazy:
I will try to get back on some crappie hopefully later this week , but as of now I will just hold my head down with that sad look until that time comes .
The good news is my buddy thunk it was really fun and was all smiles and to be honest they were biting really well and a few of the larger specimens really pulled like they meant it .
stay tuned for some future KABOOM , yesterday was not , my bad though for not wearing any crappie.com lucky gear ....nonono
went in bare and came out sad ....there ya have it
the truth can be stranger than fiction don't ya know:highfive

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Love your stories my friend. "the truth can be stranger than fiction don't ya know" We all know that is so true.

As said, a good story and brings a smile!
Bob

Awesome. This winter I have to get my fishing fix vicariously from others. Thanks for posting.

Casts made, rods bent, smiles worn. That’s success where I come from. Glad you showed your bud a good time anyway.

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Originally Posted by skeetbum

Casts made, rods bent, smiles worn. That’s success where I come from. Glad you showed your bud a good time anyway.

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he just loved it , went back the next day tuned up a bit and really really smoked the fire out of them
it makes my day for sure to see folks in hammer mode , done sent about a half dozen dads and sons up that way to light them up
imagine some 40 years down the road when some older fella is tellin fish stories about when dad took him to the creek :highfive

That is what it is aways about. Nobody every reminisces about sitting at home on the couch. Good on you for creating those memories

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Originally Posted by Ketchn

he just loved it , went back the next day tuned up a bit and really really smoked the fire out of them
it makes my day for sure to see folks in hammer mode , done sent about a half dozen dads and sons up that way to light them up
imagine some 40 years down the road when some older fella is tellin fish stories about when dad took him to the creek :highfive

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they will be telling the story of the crappie whisperer Ketchn who taught them to KABOOM! :highfive

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

they will be telling the story of the crappie whisperer Ketchn who taught them to KABOOM! :highfive

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i kinda thunk it would be more like some fella on fake book or some social media fishing site told dad about a spot and it was really fun :highfive

Congrats of some winter ketchn. Always enjoy the ride alongs. Looking out at the massive storm we just had this is as close to a fishing trip that I will get!
Bob

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Originally Posted by BobC

Congrats of some winter ketchn. Always enjoy the ride alongs. Looking out at the massive storm we just had this is as close to a fishing trip that I will get!
Bob

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we are calm and steady here with little to no rainfall and the waters are dropping .
if it dont rain by spawn time , the fish here will take a legendary beating
fish in a barrel in the spring is THE BOMB !

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Originally Posted by SuperDave336

I would have loved it... totally skunked my last trip. Now there is your walk of shame.. :Rofl
Good job as always Ketchn even if not exactly what you were looking for. :highfive

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Last trip???? I've been totally skunked on my last 5 or 6 trips. Even changed lakes, just to be skunked on the new lake. :Rofl

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Originally Posted by ezgoing

Last trip???? I've been totally skunked on my last 5 or 6 trips. Even changed lakes, just to be skunked on the new lake. :Rofl

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look for me tomorrow , there should be a bite before the frozen tundra event Wednesday .
see ya around lunch my friend and we are going to look in shallow water .....just saying :highfive

Always good ahead of the front

Given my recent results, we will find thousands of crappie and none of them will bite. :banghead

I'm not having trouble finding fish, I just can't get them to bite. :banghead

Sunday we found huge schools that were longer than my pontoon and covered 4 feet of water from the top of school to bottom of the school. They were in 15 feet of water, covered the water column from 10 feet deep to 14 feet deep. From the size of the images on Livescope they were all nice-sized fish. They were swimming, not just suspended, so we thought for sure we had hit the gold mine.

We tried jigging, we tried casting and swimming the jigs through the schools, nothing would bite. If I had my cast net on board I would have tried that just to see what species they were. :banghead

They had the shape of crappie and were in a vertical formation so I thought for sure they were crappie. Then after no results I thought they may be white bass so we started casting and moving through the school at a fast pace, then barely crawling through the schools.

Nothing!

I don't think they were shad or baitfish, due to the size, the formation, and the fact that they did not scatter when our lures went through the school. iF they were shad they were huge. The formations were not balls but were long horizontal schools of 3-4 feet deep. You could see the individual fish in the schools.

I barely look at my limited electronics so I have no idea how many fish there were that I couldn't get to bite

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I barely look at my limited electronics so I have no idea how many fish there were that I couldn't get to bite

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Same here. If I did, I would be even more sad. Plus, sometimes I just like the surprise! Jumping Jacks Icon

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Originally Posted by ezgoing

I'm not having trouble finding fish, I just can't get them to bite. :banghead

Sunday we found huge schools that were longer than my pontoon and covered 4 feet of water from the top of school to bottom of the school. They were in 15 feet of water, covered the water column from 10 feet deep to 14 feet deep. From the size of the images on Livescope they were all nice-sized fish. They were swimming, not just suspended, so we thought for sure we had hit the gold mine.

We tried jigging, we tried casting and swimming the jigs through the schools, nothing would bite. If I had my cast net on board I would have tried that just to see what species they were. :banghead

They had the shape of crappie and were in a vertical formation so I thought for sure they were crappie. Then after no results I thought they may be white bass so we started casting and moving through the school at a fast pace, then barely crawling through the schools.

Nothing!

I don't think they were shad or baitfish, due to the size, the formation, and the fact that they did not scatter when our lures went through the school. iF they were shad they were huge. The formations were not balls but were long horizontal schools of 3-4 feet deep. You could see the individual fish in the schools.

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Ouch :Rofl