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Hello, I'm Harold, I joined a couple of years ago but have recently gotten back to crappie fishing and it's really fun. I've been fishing at a pond learning how to catch black crappie, and today I caught least 2 dozen and kept 6. I was casting a Berkley power minnow and slowly retrieving and had a blast. I've used live minnows and goldfish with success at this pond but nothing like today. I doubt I buy live bait again
Congratulations. Glad you had an outstanding time enjoying the greatest sport on earth. We are glad to have you here, so Welcome from Southwest Missouri.
Thank you James!
welcome
Awesome. Sounds enjoyable. I see no need to buy live bait when you can catch them on artificial. :twocents
Nice! and Welcome from Toledo Bend Texas :fish
Thanks everyone for the welcome, I've read and learned a lot on here and look forward to learning even more from you guys
Glad you're back. Welcome from Kentucky.
Welcome back! Moving this to the NC board
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This will be my first tine frying crappie fillets, any pointers on preperation, recipes, best batter would be appreciated. I always fry my fish
Got 4 more to eat this evening and threw several back, I'm having a hard time uploading pics but it might show on this post
They're chewing the paint off these power minnows, incredible bait, I've always been a Berkley guy because they make stuff that catches fish
Cooked up the small fillets with no seasoning or batter to see what they taste like and now I understand why they're called Sac a lait, delicous
Good job. They taste even better when seasoned :twocents
Thanks Dave! I'll probably get some Andy's to bread with, need a 4 inch Rapala fillet knife, dealing with a cheap BPS knife
In NC, House Autry seafood breader is available at most grocery stores. That’s my group uses. Lemme know what you think once you try it. We love it!
Chris
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Looks good, I'll try it. I do prefer the yellow corn flour over meal
What do you guys do with the filleted carcasses? Ive got em in plastic bags in the freezer to put out with the weekly trash rn
The "baked parmesian crappie" recipe is really quite good from the cooking forum, well worth a try rather than frying. Actually, you're sort of frying due to the high oven temps.
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/cook...mesan-crappie/
For simple fried, I like mine marinated for 15-30 minutes in a good amount of Franks Red Hot sauce, then dredged in plain white AP flour. Set it aside for about 10 minutes to let the flour really absorb the liquid and firm up, then into your choice of hot grease.
Sounds tasty! Ill have to try that
WELCOME FROM THE DEEP SOUTH LOUISIANA COAST!!!
Having fried some dry aged Sacalait slabs yesterday and a few pounds of gulf shrimp for my 7 and 4 year old granddaughters I was not surprised when they requested seconds of the fish Paw Paw!! The shrimp were delicious but fried dry aged Sacalait is like that potato chip commercial. Bet you can’t eat just ONE!!
Bon Temps!!
Good Morning Bon Temps, Ms Joyce asks how you dry aged dem Sacalait...she never hears of dat. Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by BON TEMPS
ROJO is the expert in dry aging Sacalait. He did a thread on dry aging on this blog I think.
ROJO do you mind pointing Mrs Joyce in the right direction.
it basically means putting your ice cold fresh filets in on open container spread out in a cold refrigerator for a few days. Tilt the open container so that excess water accumulates in the lower corner on the container where it can easily be drained. I usually dry mine for 3 to 4 days and I flip them over once a day. After a couple days there is no more water accumulating but the aging process continues for up to a week I think.
The dry aging helps not only the cooking process but makes a tastier fish.
Rojo will need to add what fish this works for. Since we only eat Sacalait here I didn’t bother with trying to remember which fish he said this does and does not work with.
Bon Temps!!
Thank you so very much. I let her know, and she thanked you as well. She also pointed out, it is much like she does with the pork loin chops, (boneless), I cut to make Tasso. She calls it her seasoning meat, prior to smoking the pork.
Can't go wrong with House Autry and black pepper. I see your fillets are kind of dark. You might want to try bleeding your fish next time. I started cutting their gills about 2 years ago and it makes the fillets even whiter and taste better in my opinion. Also, less mess during filleting.
I've read on here a lot of people say they ice their catch down until the next day to make easier to fillet, that's what Ive been doing and probably accounts for the darker color. Still tasted great to me. No doubt bleeding helpsbut I doubt I ever bleed panfish. I'm looking to keep crappies in the 9" to 11" range but if all I could catch are bigguns I might would bleed those
Got to the pond today and there was a ton of leaves and pine straw on the surface with no wind so not the easiest fishing but still managed to catch a nice eater on the Gulp 2.5 " minnow. These gulp baits are great but not near as durable as the power minnows. Ill add that these gulp minnows had been open a couple years so theyll still work after the 9 month expiration date. I did spray some gulp minnow spray into the bag
I like experimenting with baits and want to try this atomic tube/gulp 1" minnow combo, I'll let y'all know how it does. I cant get these pics straight to save my life, sorry guys. I test my baits in my aquarium and right now I'm fascinated with the tubes jigs inserted, the way they sit and swim in the water is very minnow like. They can be cast, vertical jigged and put under a float. I've seen people say they tear easily and prefer the solid bodies so I'll have to see how that goes
This should work too, to mimic the atomic teasers which are $5 for a 3 pack. You can get a jar of the gulp alive fry for $6 and use like a little stinger tail. You can slide a nibble on before the fry if desired
If y'all haven't tried the BG Slab Huntrs I would recommend them, I have not seen another plastic with this tail action, moves like a propeller even when swimming slowly. Pairs well with a Crappie Magnet double cross jig head. I use Pro Cure Shad and Trophy Bass as attractant. The Trophy Bass formula is very similar to the Crappie Cocktail
1/16 oz Atomic tube with a gulp pinched crawler
Good dinner
Hit the pond today and caught several and kept 4 with the biggest one coming at the end on a marabou jig, I figured I'd try it out since people say they work in colder water and got hammered twice. I dunked in some Gulp attractant to help em hold on a bit longer
Hit the usual pond today, started out with a 2" berkley power swimmer, I started another thread on how it wasn't good, but I realized I had a loop knot tied, with paddletails you want a direct tie for better action, so after direct tying I realized it's a deadly bait. Caught one on my second cast with it, but with the water getting colder may not be the best option. So I tried the atomic tube casting without a float for the first time, and I lost count of how many crappie's I caught just slowly swimming the tube. Had many distinct thumps, one of the addictive aspects of crappie fishing. I will definitely be slangin some tubes from now on. As for durability, the same tube is still good after numerous catches. The highlight of the day though was when I was swimming the power swimmer along the top of the water and a bluegill was following it, and out of nowhere a 9+ lb bass inhales the gill. I was nervously shaking in anticipation of getting a live gill tied on my zebco slingshot, lol, caught one gipp that was a little big but couldnt get another bite from a gill. Next time Ill take bacon
Oh yes, my hook ups are actually much better with jigs than live minnows under a float, go figure. I was missing at least 1 out of 5 fish using eagle claw #4 aberdeens, tried some Gamakatsu #8 circles and still the same. With the jig's I'd say I've caught at least 100 black crappies out of this pond and lost maybe 5 that I saw come off, not counting missed strikes
Nice looking fish. By the way that last one swallowed it, I'd say he had some friends down there with him and there was a bit of competition going on as to who was going to get it. Congrats.
Most of the fish I caught were like clones, around 8 inches. I believe this pond is infested with black crappie's and needs a good cleaning, filleting and eating, haha