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let's say it rains 5 inches in a quick minute
you hit the water a few hours later
the lake is rising FAST
do you pitch to the mudline ?
or into the muddy water ?
or into the clearer water...

depends on the day bro , i am more fickle than any crappie ever was .....:Rofl

went yesterday right after the big storm here ......follow my threads and see what rising muddy water has in store for you "IF" you are without fancy equipment and not of the mindset they dont not...

but here in lies the deal with me , if it looks ridiculous and ketches fish , I might go with something that looks cool and still ketches fish just as well .....it's just not me to have something...

:Rofl:Rofl
used my 4 year old SK handtie yesterday btw , just kuz .....still looking prime and hammering
and still on my rod this morning as I type , when I made jigs back when , some of the jigs...

not being really sure about your current conditions makes it difficult to properly diagnose the situation .
if they are post spawn , we find them in similar conditions to prespawn , around 8 to 12...

Shoot bro I got one SK gave me years ago and way past a thousand fish later it looks like the day he gave it to me ….not kidding
A fella named Skip made me one I used for 3 or 4 years too ….
Life...

One of my friends uses them big stupid umbrella looking plastics on a road runner head and does pretty well and his average fish size is typically nice as well …..
We sure rib him about tossing them...

Prolly need bigger hooks ….:Rofl

Our #&@/$&@ neighbor invited 2 fellas to hunt his Bermuda field literally right beside us at night for hogs,
They set a feeder 30 feet from my fence and a spy lock cam ON my fence , they then...

H been giving them out lately ....
mostly in the dark , it is different to hunt in the wee light for sure ....
not near as easy as daylight ....
cams show us daylight pigs
hunts show us daytime...

was outstanding my friend , my friend gave us some of his grass fed beef patties , not venison this go around , but pretty tasty grub for silly sure ...

or some other tragic event has happened , but to be sure the big bulls and hens are not in the mix currently ,,,,,darnit I say :banghead
struggling to EVEN ketch them currently at one spot , but 100...

the ONLY good news is that it was only a micro crappie ......:Rofl:Rofl:Rofl

that particular day last week was the stuff you need on video ....
the crappie were tight to the dock walkway and you needed about 2 to 3 foot of line out and traveling parallel to the main walkway ...

yes sir , but fork was never intended to be a crappie lake either ....
fork was dink festival when it opened back when , heck sometimes we would ketch 300 or more before we had a single limit of...

I think it will need time to be a great fishery , most lakes new ain't all that ...
when fork was new it was dink festival back when ...
we would just hammer the fire out them and none were big...

Actually "fished" an event with ole Wally back when ....just saying

it more about the folks putting the bait in the water than the bait in most cases my friend ....
crappie are kind of dumb and easy once you get to know them "reel" well .....:crazy:

for straight down dipping they work fine , not as good for some other presentations though ....my thoughts

YEP , with a some sauteed toppers and a few ruffles and some burnt sweet corn on the side , if you burn it just right over an open fire made of pecan wood, it might eat well ....
of course the...

Some 20 or more years ago ,this was my specialty , a split loaf of French bread and some marinara and garlic and cheese and whatever else got in my way and for SURE KABOOM !
in my circles I was...

the cracked black pepper was the only seasoning and a lil lite dunk in some soy sauce made it just about go bananas in your mouth , the salt in the soy coupled with the pepper made it just ,,,,,mmmmm...

I was 165 give or take it seemed like forever , but to be sure my frame made me look more like 95 ......:Rofl

p.s. sorry about the whisker fish , but it seemed it had to be in on the joke as well :Rofl

It has been said color don't matter ...
But , has it been said , profile don't matter ? :dono
Keep this in mind , I DO NOT typically care for store bought baits , More often than not, my artificial...

JUST WOW BRO < KABOOM

I got one from about 50 years ago , sure was skinny back then, will see if I can find it

Was pouring rain when I went at lunchtime Friday .
Fish were already wet , so they really didn’t care one way or the other :Rofl
Nice bro , KABOOM is the word :highfive

Sandies ruin plastics and hand ties too , we used to have a fella in these parts that tied some bucktail jigs just for sand bass , used some kind of indestructible white stuff from a local craft shop...