Good day of fishing

The snow from earlier this week has melted. Air temperatures in the mid 50s, aittle more wind than I prefer but the way this spring has been here you have to take what you get. I was able to try out my two new JDM rods on some crappie. Caught a total of 41 and missed a lot more than I Caught. Brought the 7 that were over 9 inches home. About 30 of them were right around 6 inches, fish somewhat schooled up in 25 fow anywhere from 8 to 14 deep. Attachment 425316Attachment 425317

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Great way to break in those JDM rods. Nothing quite like the thump of a crappie

Water temp around 48 to 49 degrees, not a lot of thumps, mostly little tics.

The first thump after about 4 hours of fishing caught me by surprise, scared me a little. :Rofl

I missed a lot of fish, I actually think I was doing better with the Finetail than the Lunakia. I could feel them better on the Lunakia just wasn't getting them hooked up, had the reel spooled up with braid, I image that is why I could feel the bites better. The reel on the Finetail was spooled with 4lb nylon. Next trip I think I will swap the reels around to see how that goes.

I think when that water temperature warms a bit more the bite will become aggressive and the braid should shine for bite detection. Nothing wrong with nylon except the stretchy mushy feel of the light biters. Choice of lures and fishing techniques also will cause a big difference in bite detection with the different lines, on a tight line braid is hard to beat. Hope to see more pics of fish and the sticks you capture them with!


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Congrats on your catch.

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Nice trip and report. The action here in SE PA is starting to ramp up! About time!
Bob

Forty + fish makes for a fun outing, nice!

Back out this afternoon for about 5 hours. 30 crappie total. 5 legal fish over 9 inches. Only fish with the Linakia with 0.2 PE on a Abu Garcia Theta same set up as yesterday with the exception of a 2 ft mono leader used 2lb SOS, leader was mainly so I could tie a loop not. Had two jigs come off yesterday trying to use a loop knot with the PE. Missed a good many bites to start like yesterday. Changed to a smaller hand tied jig and the hook ups got better. The small fish were generally around 8 inches vs 6 inches yesterday. Live well started life as a rod locker, bought it used to convert to a livewell.Attachment 425411

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Looks like you found them. Nice catches.

Good catch and nice conversion idea with the rod locker!
Bob

congrats

That’s a good couple of trips, and I like the live well. I tried some nylon and found it mushy compared to braid, but I could still feel em. Don’t know how that would go when they were biting light. I use braid now and love the feel.

Totally agree. Fished with mono for a long time. Tried braid and panfishing became a completely different experience. Feeling every move the fish makes, even little ones, ups the fun factor.

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That’s a good couple of trips, and I like the live well. I tried some nylon and found it mushy compared to braid, but I could still feel em. Don’t know how that would go when they were biting light. I use braid now and love the feel.

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Congratulations on ur catches.

Got to the lake about 4pm after work. Talked to two guys taking their boat out at the ramp. They said they were fishing structure along the banks, picking up a few in different spots all but 4 of them small. I checked some downed trees with livescope but didn't see any fish. Decided to give it a couple cast anyways, second cast bingo hooked a big branch, lost the jig.

Tied another jig on and went to the deeper water where I was finding them last weekend. Found some schooled up about 8 to 12 ft deep. Started with the Lunakia caught about a half dozen, till I got a wind knot, was able to get most of it out fished it a little more then switched to the Finetail SUL with nylon line. Caught a couple but bite was kind of slow. Switched to the Aji do to see how it felt. None of the fish were thumping the jigs just soft bites. About 6pm the wind started to die down and the fish spread out some. The pace picked up pretty well. Got into bigger fish than last weekend smallest fish was around 8 inches biggest was just short of 11 inches a pretty good fish around here.

I was having good time till I got persistent phone calls, my credit card company was calling wanting to know if I was at a Target in Dallas making a $700 purchase. Nope not me. Spent the next half hour on the phone with them. I did catch 2 more keepers while talking to him though. Boated 33 crappie with 17 keepers.Attachment 425971

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Had the wife and daughter in law out on Sat with there new TCB rod combos. By the end of the day they were both doing well casting the spinning reels. We caught a good many fish, mostly small ones, between the 3 of us we had 15 legal crappie and 2 perch. My wife had the big fish of the day 10.75 crappie. A good day with the family.

Crappie started moving towards the shallow water found lots towards the back end of the lake but still holding in 15 to 20 FOW. Attachment 426179

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Nice report and photos, zekepa. The TCB is a real nice rod for the money and I love mine. Pans feel really good during the fight.
Bob

Good catches and pics. The Finetail should be a good fit for those smaller Crappie and Perch. The Lunakia will definitely handle anything whiskered or green that comes along. Most fish should be headed shallow up your way, hope to see more reports soon.