Let the Good Times Roll

Very nice congrats!!!!

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Originally Posted by Eatmorecrappie

Congratulation on your 3 day fishing trip! Glad you, Tommy and your guest had a blast. I'm going to have to agree with Tommy on the hair. lol He's a handsome little fella Tim. Oh yea my neighbor gave me some bream sat that they caught at santee on wed, thurs and friday. I'm talking huge! Said they were on fire! I thought about going to santee but a little nervous taking a fiberglass boat, don't feel like patching a hole. Tim as always thanks for the report and pics!

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I fished out of a fiberglass boat for 20 years and never had the first booboo. I recently got an aluminum Tracker, but I would not hesitate to go in a glass boat. I fish the Stumphole area which is named Stumphole for a reason, so I have hit more than a few stumps, but I don't run fast in areas I know there are stumps, and when I do run up on one I usually can just give it a bit of gas and slide right over the stump. If you react to running up on a stump by backing off the gas you will turn into a compass needle until some one pulls you off or you can back it off. Just use caution and you should be fine.

Good report Tim. I took your advice and managed a few crappie off the piles at Jack's on good old RT309s. We also found some nice shellcrackers around the back side of Persanti Is. I was hoping to get back down there this week, but if I do it will be Friday.

I have to confess that when I first got there I saw some folks fishing brush with minnows and slip corks and not doing any good so I tried longlining 4 rods with curly tail jigs tipped with minnows. I had 4 or 5 fish hit but came off at the boat and I never saw them so I am not sure what was going on. I tried the bream around one of the islands but did not do any good and was getting discouraged and was about to leave. Then I said I am going to try this single pole stuff with the Rooty Tootys and see if I can make it work. (I was by fishing by myself, Rick could not make it this year) First pile I hit, solid thump and a nice crappie. I managed 7 off of maybe 10 piles with several throwbacks. It was around noon and the bite slowed so I headed back to Stumphole for more Shellcracker fishing.
Again thanks for the suggestions. Hate I missed you but hope Florida was fun.