Report: Chickamauga Lake crappie 10/12/2016

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I took my best crappie student out this morning for a 1/2 day fishing trip. First time out for her in quite a long time. She was a little rusty at first, but came on later and did her usual outfish the teacher thing. Grin. I love it. She caught the most fish, but I did have big fish honors today.

We just checked one off shore structure this AM and she ended up catching a blue catfish that I took home for dinner. She hooked up another one, but it pulled off after a 30 second fight. Then we hit the creeks and docks for crappie. We fished deep docks early and found the fish smack dab on the bottom. It was slow fishing for quite a while.

Then we went to docks that were a little more shallow and did really well. We caught several keepers that went home with me to be relocated in Crisco Lake. Or Amana freezer lake. Grin. I think that we are going to do fish for dinner tonight. Yummy. Dinner at 7. If you come, bring a dessert. LOL

We fished with Bass Assassin lures today. The productive colors were 2" Bluegrass, S&P Phantom w/chartreuse tail, Electric Chicken Little Dumpling. We caught a little rock bass, 2 yellow bass, and a few short crappie today as well. The wind went from calm to about 7 mph and then back to calm by the time we stopped fishing. Water temp was 71.2 degrees. The lake is about 2 feet below summer pool.

It was a good day to be out on the water. Candi needed the R&R and she came away refreshed in spirit, mind and body after our trip. Yea!