Huh? What is up with all the Moon names nowadays? Growing up I do not remember all these different names for the our nearest celestial neighbor; Super Moon, Blood Moon, Blue Moon, Harvest Moon, Strawberry Moon, now Black Moon or Super Dark Moon. What does it all mean, not sure here but I do believe it affects the way the fish behave and bite. Sure they have to eat , but the darn devils were sort of uncooperative this afternoon, the eve of the Black Moon. I located lots of bait, marked a pile of fish on several known Crappie hideouts just had to basically talk the rascals in to biting my offerings. Bobby Garland Baby Shad fished on a 1/32oz jig head in the Blue Ice and Monkey Milk were the colors of the baits presented after being doused in Slab sauce. Fishing depths ranged from 17-22ft and they were sitting dead on the bottom of the 89 degree water. Lightning and distant thunder may not have helped either, but the fish were just in a negative mood. The bite was light, and all the fish I was marking had to be just turning their noses away from the bait, there were just so many showing up on the electronics and just not biting. From 5-9pm I put 17 fish in the boat with only 10 making the trip home for freezer filling.
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Slimy rascals they were, they left me a nice present in the livewell that I will have to hose out tomorrow.
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The size of the keepers was respectable, most were right out the 12in mark, perfect eating size.
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I do believe the Dark Moon affected the bite tonight, and I think we are going to have another one at the end of August. If you got out there today or are going tomorrow, hopefully they will be a little more cooperative. Yes, they are biting, but you may have to work at getting them to commit, I know I did.


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