Thread: Carl Blackwell anyone?

Well this morning was decent fishing... I got out there from 830 to 11 and come home with 14 good size crappie. The others out there seemed to have found the hot spot on the north side of the dock and were pulling in some good ones. I'm just happy the crappie seem to be moving back in! Hopefully Saturday morning will be even better! Now time for me to pan fry my crappie I caught today.. Mmmm!

Nice!

Josh, your a trooper, and my wife said I was crazy. Hope you had better luck today.

Took little brother out today and fished Blackwell and had a lot better luck. Didnt get enough keepers to make a 37 fish limit but we did okay and Alex had fun so that made it worth it. Fished 12' with Arkie tubes in Blue/Silver and solid Chart and Gates Custom Jigs solid yellow hair jigs. Several others were slip corking and having better luck. The bite was very very light today. Will be back at it tomorrow i hope.

Nice job, Josh. I was going to take the grandkids up there, but the boss needed me at work. If the roads aren't really bad, maybe my daughter will allow me to take her little preciouses in the morning (provided bigfishmama lets me use her van).

Apparently the bite was really good early on. We got there about 11 and got 41, but more than half went back into the drink, with instructions to send their grandmas back to "visit" our jigs. At least two of the guys who got there early went home with limits and one nice saugeye. Bright colors and dark colors worked, but they didn't seem to key on any one color. Most of mine came on the nursery jig.
Swollen was there with a technical problem, which he will probably describe in a post.

I missed something Sky- what is the nursery jig?
swollen- looking forward to further light and knowledge re your technical problem.

Well, Cc,
What are the dominant colors in the nursery? Light blue and a bright pink. So a jig with a bright pink head, light blue Estaz for a body blanket, and a little pink hair with a silver ribbon showing HAS to be called the nursery jig. It has caught most of the fish the last four trips, including two trips where the other guys were struggling to get anything in the bucket. I tied a larger one for yesterday, and the son-in-law got a 13 incher on it right away, then fed it (poor use of antecedent, the jig, not the fish) to the brush. Will tie some more big nursery jigs today, with some help from three of the grandkids who have been tying when they come to visit.