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I’ll Take Bed Picking For 100 Alex
And the Jeopardy question of the day: What is the most fun you can have fishing in East Tennessee on the Super Flower Blood Moon week in May.
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A total eclipse happened around Midnight Sunday night and the Old Orb in the southern sky turned as orange as a true UT fan. Monday was supposed to be stormy so a Tuesday trip was planned to hopefully take advantage of the bedding behavior of the beautiful and tasty Bluegill.
I arrived early at the ramp and while waiting on my partner for the day I quickly scored an 8 and a 9in bull on a close by bed.
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The 1in EPF Swim by Eurotackle tipped with a nibble fooled the first 10 fish of the morning. The Avani SW Finesse with a Varivas Titanium coated 3lb leader was strung up for battle on both the Olympic GraphiteLeader Corto and the ABU Eradicator Real Finesse.
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A watermelon Nikko worm fooled a fair share of keepers, only 8-8.5in were kept today….all 9s or better were to be released. Soon fellow CDCOM member VA Crappie Man showed up and quickly scored his share of the old cricket crunchers.
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Scaring the 9in mark he was on his choice of micro plastics, I knew it was a matter of time before he hit the magic number. If he only had a better taste in hats! Anyway it wasn’t long before another 9 was stuck and made famous before her release.
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A gravid female on the bed, she was a fighter for sure.
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What a beautiful fish in the sunlight, just awesome colors they have. Well it didn’t take VA Dude long to hit the goal….
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We were kicking bluegill tail and taking names by this point, another 9 briefly came on board for a pic, we were amazed at the girth of these bad boys.
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Both these monsters were over 9 and went back after a quick pic. Thick and girthy and the fish were the same :-).
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Another 9 with a bloody tail, I am telling you guys it was a bed picking fest for sure.
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VA dude had big fish honors, his equipment was tested for sure, I will let him give you the details but it was a drag squealing Shoot Fire kind of day.
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He took 10 home and a keeper walleye to feed his family and I kept 6 for Fish Tacos….the cook will be documented tomorrow.
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I ended up with 72 clicks, he scored 55 and big fish honors, so it was actually bed picking for 127. We visited at least 10 good beds with many cooperative fish. A great day catching an awesome fish. Get out there this week if you can, they are biting.
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