The Crappie Are Getting Ready For Fall Crappie Camp - Are You?!?!?

The crappie are finally starting to settle in on our Bamboo Crappie Condos and biting a bit better.

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Our average size was a lot better today than it has been lately and we caught several on jigs without tipping them with minnows so that's a good sign.

Darryl's crew had a great trip too!

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All we need now is some cooler weather. Surface temp got up to 81-degrees by 1:00 and it felt a lot more like July than October out on the water. The extended forecast is looking good - hope they are right:
http://www.weather.com/weather/tenda...nav_undeclared

Jerry,

Glad yall did better than us today, we took a zero but had a good time any way. Kaetcin Katie the Pan Fish Princess managed to kill a few Cokes in glass bottles and catch a few dink perch. We did graph fish but they were tight lipped suckers, I think the bassers had them spooked.


King Big

Boy, am I ready. Glad to see that it's pickin up. Hope to see y'all soon.

The way this year has gone I need to book a week with you and Darryl.

lookin forward to the weekend....Looks like it's gonna cool downa little for the CC. I think I'm just going to bring a tent..

I had a great time fishing with my good friend Keith "Catfish" Sutton (http://www.catfishsutton.com/), his wife and another couple this morning.

We fished for bass with live crawfish and Kastmaster spoons early and then went after the crappie. We had several periods of real good action.

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I guess the bigger crappie got their bellies full while we were chasing bass but the 8 to 12-inchers were still real hungry. We (I let Keith clean most of them) cleaned 49 fish and estimated we released at least 20 small crappie and bass.

It looks like they had a pretty darn good trip Jerry.WTG

<Bobberwatcher slaps his hands together and rubs them back and forth while grinning from ear to ear thinking "Only a couple more days!!!">

They were a bit slower today with a strong cold front passing through but we still got a decent mess.

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Same crew tomorrow and we're going after the biguns!

Outstanding pics Jerry!
I took Russ and Jeff fishing from Midwest Crappie. They were a class act and a blast to fish with! They had nothing but nice things to say about you! We managed to catch 20 crappie most over 13", it should make a good show! It will be shown in o9'.

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Originally Posted by J.T. Crappie Guide

Outstanding pics Jerry!
I took Russ and Jeff fishing from Midwest Crappie. They were a class act and a blast to fish with! They had nothing but nice things to say about you! We managed to catch 20 crappie most over 13", it should make a good show! It will be shown in o9'.

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Hey Jason:

Thanks!

Russ and Jeff are a lot of fun to fish with and Russ puts out a real good show that you'll be proud of.

The smaller crappie have turned on here and I'm hoping the better ones will start real soon.

I've been noticing the good stringers you've been bringing in so I now things will pick up here soon. I'm ready for this cool-down the Weather Guessers are promising.

on good days we'll catch 30 or so 10" to 12" crappie, on bad days we will catch 15 13" or larger crappie. It dosen't make much sence why the little ones bite one day and the big ones bite better the next and the little ones shut off. I love the big fish but it's nice to catch a couple few limits of fish with customers! Like you said it will all come together soon!
I am going to try and get down there this winter and hang out with you guys again. I encourage you and Darryl to come up and fish SWEPCO with me this winter also.

I think we finally picked a good weekend to have Crappie Camp. The extended forcast is looking great and the crappie are cooperating every day so things are shaping up for a fun and productive weekend. The lake is low but holding steady and we have plenty of cover to fish around that's at the right depth.

We left the bass alone today and went looking for better quality crappie than we found yesterday and it paid off:

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looks like a Great trip there Jerry. Hope they keep it up for this weekend.

Lookin' good, Jerry. It figures that since this CC is gonna have some good weather...I'm not gonna make it down. I hope y'all have a fun and safe time this weekend. Be sure to eat a fillet or two or a dozen for me...

Glad that the fish are doing good some places. Lake Nimrod is near it's low point and muddy on the west end. Crappie fishing has been mostly slow and few fishermen out. We need some fresh water to cool off those 80+water temps.

Crappie Camp pictures -- http://www.familyfishingtrips.com/Cr...mp2007Fall.htm

Great looking pictures wish I could come!!!!!!!!

my family & I really enjoyed the camp this fall. the weather was absolutely fabulous. my youngest daughter made a new friend in cameron, tj adams son. they had a great time playing in the fire during the fish fry. we had a pretty good time on the fishing too. we wound up making it more of a spotted bass camp than crappie camp. we couldn't get the crappie to cooperate with us. The only regret that i have is that i lost a big fish, and more importantly a good grappler shad on something huge off of a rocky bank. now i've got to replace it.

On a note, the temps were still in the mid-70's this weekend w/ all of the sunshine. Today, after all of the rain, the temps on the lake here at home are 68 degrees. I know they will pop back up some with some sun, but we're not far from those consistent 60's that we need for the fall frenzy here at the house. I'm ready for the cool weather.

Jill and I arrived home at about 6:30 last night. We had a great time at Fall Crappie Camp, even though the bite was tough. Many thanks go out to Darryl & Jerry for the hospitality and tips they provided to us over the weekend. Many thanks also to Jason and Grubby(?) for their pointers and guidance on Sunday morning.

It was nice to meet everyone, and hopefully I can remember the names for future reference. Jill and I plan on coming back down for Spring Crappie Camp, and look forward to getting to know all of you a bit better.

Thanks again for a great time!!

Skeeter Jeff & Skeeter Jill

AKA Jeff & Jill from Indianapolis, IN (Not Minneapolis. <G>)

glad you and jill had agood time it was nice meeting yall.

Jeff and Jill it was a pleasure to meet ya'll. when ya'll come back in the spring mabey we will have better luck all the tops we tried will hopefully be in deeper water by then and have crappie stacked up on them. I really enjoyed ya'lls company Sunday hope to do it again soon.