Spring Has Been Good To Me!

It's been a great spring for me crappie fishing this year but I'm hanging it up. My last trip was this past Saturday morning. Was on the ramp at daylight and fished until about 10:30 AM. By that time it was heating up and I was starting to sweat. I decided to call it a day and quit with 58 on the clicker.

Saturday was an enjoyable trip and the end to an unbelievable season for me. With the summer heat beginning to bear down I'm "retiring" again...this time giving my boat, me, and the fish a rest. The fish are still biting but the heat takes ALOT of the fun out of the fishing trips for me. As much as Ive been able to fish since retirement last November it has been nothing but fun. Who woulda EVER thunk after retiring from public work that you can literally go fishing ANY TIME YOU WANT TO!!

Sure, I'm gonna get "that itch" from time to time and when I do I'll probably drag the boat out and get that itched scratched a little. Not really all that interested in night fishing anymore so I'm gonna devote some time working on the food plots and the deer hunting areas and spend some time with the Mrs on a vacation or two. Not to even mention spending more time with the grand babies.:)

So you guys keep posting about your trips and I'll live thru your times on the water for awhile. And everybody just be safe 'cause we all know the "crazies" are out there from now thru Labor Day weekend!

A few nocturnal trips surely help beat the heatbof summer when the need arises

i hope you have a good time on vac. everyone needs some time doing other things it will be time to fish again sooner than you will know

Yea, I’m dreading the Hot Crazy Kids out of School Lake Season. I can’t get into the Night Fishing. It’s keeps me up past my bedtime. I usually take my break July and August.


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I'm with you- can't stand the heat like I could as a young man. My cutoff in the summer is usually 9:30 in the morning. After that, the pleasure boaters can have it. Thermocline already setting up in my local lakes. Fall can't come soon enough!

what lake are you fishing i have just started to fish wiley about a month or so back

I'll try to keep you amused. I don't like the heat much anymore myself. So, I'll fish in the darkness for all of you! I know I'll have company out there most likely! :highfive Enjoy your time off the water best you can It won't be that long before you will be back out there.:cheers2

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Originally Posted by jumping jack

what lake are you fishing i have just started to fish wiley about a month or so back

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I usually fish the upper end of Clark Hill Lake with an occasional trip to Lake Russell.

Butch its been fun reading all of your reports this year, enjoyed each one of them. :cheers2

I know the crappie glad to see this! You been harassing em pretty good this spring. Just be careful on those food plots and stands. It gets hot in the woods also. We bout to head under cover of the dark ourselves. Let us know you still kickin once in a while.


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I have enjoyed reading your posts. And I picked up a few ideas to try. I can't wait until fall when it cools back down.

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I am not retiring my boat just yet. I want to make a couple trips to Santee to bream fish some. I am going to sell my pontoon so I got to get it ready. To old and to many boats to keep up.

Don it looked great when I saw it last. That's a nice pontoon boat. Have you striper fished out of it yet and doesn't the first 5 and done start June 1st? Hope you and Mrs. Sinkermaker had a good anniversary. I sent you a text but don't know if you got it. Oh we tried the shrimp at Price's the other week and they were good!

There’s always the cooler shaded canopy of cypress and Tupelo trees, in the swamps of lake Marion. Bream are biting real good and tons of fun to catch.


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Mark I have striper fished out of it and it fishes real good. The trolling motor does a good job holding it in wind no more anchors. 5 and done started today. Had a good anniversary number 57.

Am I to understand that correctly youall have been married for 57 years congrats me and my better 3/4 been hitched 47 years

Yep we have been married 57 years. Still going strong and she is the love of my life and what keeps me going.

Me and my Wife have been married 47 years we thought that was a good long time

45 for us. She's about use to me hunting and fishing all the time now.:):):)

just a few months and me and mine will have 60 under our belt

I have to laugh at myself for I would be married 49.5 years if I added my first marriage from my ex to my now wife of 32 years for a total. But I'd be getting out of jail maybe about now for robbing the cradle if I met and married Nancy in 1971 because she would be 13 years old then. Her Yankee daddy would have shot me! But congratulations to all of you for long relationships and marriages. :ThumbsUp