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Whats up with the rez. Tuesday, my best friend and I caught 3 total in 2 1/2 hours. Wednesday, wife and I got 1 fish and got a report from someone that fished from 5:30 at several places and only caught a couple. MAN, I have no idea what to do this afternoon to try and catch some.
I talked to a guy that fished yesterday. He and his partner kept 53! He said it was slow for the most part but they hit a spot in the grass where they caught 20 fast. I'm hitting it in the morning!
I was kinda about to talk myself out of going after work this evening after all the bad reports I've been getting. I figured sawdust would be slamming about right now but with the wind and waves, guess it's got them spooked. How far back in were they fishing? I hit the pad stems and trolled around for over an hour wednesday for that 1 fish. lso went just into the grass as far as I could but with that 18 1/2 foot Nitro, I didn't make it to far. LOL Guess I geed a flat bottom boat to get way back in there
Don - I'm no grass expert! In my experience the grass is hit or miss. They will be there one day and gone the next. The sawdust pile should be good if the wind will let you fish. I'm actually planning on fishing the old Natchez Trace road bed. I just feel like with the south winds we have been having the Rankin county side of the lake has been pounded. I'm ready for all this spawning mess to be done with and the summer pattern to begin. Not to mention ready for all the extra boats to pack it up for the year.
Tired of all these Spawn only guys. Alot are not very considerate to us year round folks. We were at the cause way the other day and one came under the bridge and ran the length of the causeway by about 15 or so boats doing 15 MPH. Bad thing is they weren't but about 20 yards away from us all. Talk about a butthead. Wife and I tried to get in the grass the other day and with me having a fish/ski boat, I bottomed out before I cold get back in three where I wanted to. On smelling them out, do they smell like bream when the spawn? I thought I smelled Honeysuckle the other day in some wind.
I have always heard to look for a watermelon smell but I bet the sweat smell you describe was them. Yeah I bet it is hard to get the fish/ski in the 18 inches of water you need to get in. It want be long before the fish move to the summer pattern which is my favorite!
I agree 100% on wanting this spawning to be over....
Big fat ditto!
to be on them so this ought to be interesting. LOL I started around October really fishing year round and HOPE I can learn the summer patterns like I did the winter patterns. Know I've heard alot about the thermalclines or something like that. Where the oxygen is at is where they stay
don, in the summer, do you troll barnett, or do you jig/minnow fish single pole in the old lake beds, three prong, rice, mcmillan, etc.
I am gonna try trolling them though. I picked up about a dozen 200 series cranks on Ebay the other day so I'll have some to try it with. I found a chart somewhere on here that shows the 100, 200 and 300 series bandits and how much line is let out and how deep they'll run at the line length so we'll see how that goes
I started to ask where u got the chart, then found this:
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/archi...pth-chart.html
This the one you are using?
Aint but one way to fish barnett in the summer and thats with one jig one pole!
jig pole with 2 jigs 18 inches apart is mainly what I'm gonna try. Deep water around stumps for suspended fish. How deep they run usually in the summer? 10-12 or deeper. Know this winter I was getting them pretty good in 25-30 foot of water (Channel) and fishing from 12-18 feet deep
thats the one I found and plan on using. GOT to try it atleast
9-12 deep is the norm. on the Rez. for myself. I'm with you Slab, can't wait to fish them trees. When are you hitting Wolf?
I've been bank fishing the Rez for the last few years with some pretty good success. I haven't had much action this spring for some reason. My last try last week produced one small perch and an abundant supply of little cats. Moved to another spot behind the old Dock and the snakes weren't cooperating. Got a boat in December, but I haven't been able to find fish on the main lake and the wind has been too strong to keep looking. I'd be the happiest man on this side of the Mississippi if someone could show or tell me how to get some fish on my boat.:(
just the opposite off what I do. LOL If this wind will lay down and cooperate, I'll show ya where to catch a mess anyways
I'll be happy to do the opposite of whatever you do if it gets me a bite! Thanks for the reply. I guess we'll have to wait this wind out
Well DonDon I guess I should have listened to all of you about the rez. Fished from 7 - 3 today, mainly behind Gilligan, and ended up with 14 fish. Most of the fish were pretty good averaging around the 12-13" mark so at least I had that going for me. The wind was not bad all day either, I guess pstone or torch did not go fishing today...hehehe
I believe the Fallen Fire Fighters tourney (bass) is this weekend on the Rez, if so, there is always a cold front with 20+mph winds to go with it. Seems like every year the weather turns to crap the weekend of this tourney.
from 5 to dark 30. Darn things are biting so soft that you feel one bump and one bump only so you better be ready when they do bite. Lost several at the boat from not being able to get a good hook set on them. Couple of the fish were black males and I do mean jet black. My buddie did good yesterday. He's got lets say a REAL BAD temper and the last 2 trips, he's gotten hung up in the weeds and slammed his rod on my boat shattering it into pieces. I laid the law down yesterday and told him he wasn't going with me again if if broke another rod. He got hung on the rocks atleast 8-10 times and broke off but didn't break one rod, THANK GOD. I was gonna join up the the crappie club with him as a partner but he won't listen to me when I try and help him out. 6 trips and he's caught 5 fish to my no telling how many. He Wants to throw his line out 20-30 feet and let it drag behind the boat under a cork. Not bad if you're staying in a straight line but fishing around curves, rocks and pad stems, NO, you can't do that. Told him to just put them in the holders or better yet, in your hands and I'll put the boat on the fish. He won't listen so I'm gonna have to find me a partner for when I join up that can actually catch a few fish. Anyways, whats up with the light bites? I thought they'd be slamming it
DonDon, the ones yearlier yesterday at Gilligan were about 50/50 seems the few females I caught hammered and the males would be the light bite. Maybe after this whole spawning thing the males are just give out (reminds me of me after spawming)
LOL but I know what ya mean. Time for a cig and a nap hehe
to fill that spot. I have no problems listening and learning. I’ve been looking for a knowledgeable boat fishing partner myself. I'll be happy to show you plenty bank techniques as soon as the pesky snakes go back into their holes