Fish are Biting Aggressive After Deep Freeze

Fished for 6 hours today in Jourdan river boating a pile of Crappie. Almost every one needed long nose pliers to remove the jig. Red Thunder BGBS with a Chrome jighead just delivered. I had some nice ones rise up to beat the shorts to the jig. Fun Times. Walmart here was closing out these coolers, 38 quarts I think. Anyway I didn't both with ice till I got home but just holding the bait still at 12-14ft deep over structure got numerous hookups. I was doing my 2 poles at a time and twice as I was unhooking a fish off one pole a Crappie hit the other pole laying on the deck. Not a lot of rocket science today just fish the deep structure with your jig motionless. 3 shorts are in the cooler that were bleeding bad after the hook removal. I would rather clean them and test my grease with the little fillets then just let the fish die. The cook has to have a snack while frying them up right!

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Gotta love launching 1/4 mile from the house and not planing the boat off before hooking the first one.

Nice find on the cooler. I’d love to get a good one sometime. Sounds like a fun day. Wonder what wonderful good eats those will become?

Nice mess of crappie. The plated jigs work here as well, always have some in my tackle bag.

Good lookin box of fish. I love spending the day and not burning a pint of gas. Easier for me with a 25 horse but I get it. Lethargic winter fish can be easy sometimes when they go deep like that. Standing timber and brush piles are good fun.

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Nice find on the cooler. I’d love to get a good one sometime. Sounds like a fun day. Wonder what wonderful good eats those will become?

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Can anyone say TACO!
Got to try Ketchn's 4 Taco Hold for the camera.

Great post. We had the same reactions from deep crappie yesterday on Lacombe. Very aggressive on pretty much motionless baits. Seems like they are feeding heavily before getting ready to move up.

Then lil fillets are just right for feeeesh tacos! Good share my friend.

Very nice. I’m looking forward to some of that.

I'm jealous didn't get out today. God willing after a couple errands in the morning, I'm gonna fire up the ole Nitro and try to get at em.

Sometimes them short boat rides are the best ,,,,, KABOOM bro

Man, that is a great report and picture. Thanks for sharing!

Nice catch brother and thanks for tips. One of my many flaws even at almost [emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] years of age sitting and holding something dead still. Was the females close or spraying eggs?
Slow response due to work in Houston. But will be wackin them again Friday evening or Saturday if it ain’t flooding.


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Nice catch brother and thanks for tips. One of my many flaws even at almost [emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]] years of age sitting and holding something dead still. Was the females close or spraying eggs?
Slow response due to work in Houston. But will be wackin them again Friday evening or Saturday if it ain’t flooding.

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I'm going to warm the river up here for you today. I will let them know you're on the way.

Key anytime is finding fish . Looks like you found them .
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[emoji640][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]][emoji[emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji640][emoji640]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji637]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]][emoji6[emoji640][emoji638]]]I'm going to warm the river up here for you today. I will let them know you're on the way.

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Appreciate it, leave a few for me or at least their lips don’t hurt too bad. I know you and I do a lot of catch and realeasing. Let me know how you do.


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Nice feeling those fish are so close to the house, heck I couldn’t sleep, I would have to be out there.

I took CDC member P-nut and we did well for all the wind. Got a nice lunch at the Kiln Mexican restaurant after. Small ones are really moving so the bigger fish should not be far behind.