Thread: Chickamauga Lake Crappie report 6/26/17

My good friend, Ernie Biddy aka Gator, took me crappie fishing this morning in his new to me boat. He bought this boat 3 years ago and I can't believe that it has been 3 years since we last fished together. He paid me one of the best compliments that I could ever get. He said that he would rather fish with me than Bill Dance. We did what cuonthelake loves to do and that is dock shoot jigs for crappie.
Our weapons of mass crappie destruction were Bass Assassin Pro Tiny 2" jigs and Bobby Garland Slab Slayers and Baby Shads. Gator stuck with 1/16 jigs all morning and I fished 1/24 oz under docks and 3/32 oz on the vertical structure that we did fish at the very last to try to fill a double limit. We ended up with either 29 or 30 keepers and only one short fish. In addition to crappie, we did catch a couple of Bullhead catfish and one channel catfish. We might have caught the same Bullhead catfish. I caught it first, took pics, released it, and 10 minutes later, Gator caught what looked like the same fish. It might have been a mate to the one that I caught but who knows for sure? One trashy green fish completed our catch this morning.

Ours colors that worked were: BA Chicken on a Chain, S&P Phantom. BG Gumdrop, Green Thunder, Roly Poly, Cajun Cricket, and Lovebug. That is all that we tried unless Gator used one that I didn't know about. We fished from 7 to 11 and the solunar movement period on my watch peaked at 9:30 so the bite was good from 8 to 10:15 or so. Then it slowed down a lot.

Thanks for taking me fishing today, Gator. I'm taking my trolling motor to Swafford Trolling Motor in Lenoir City this afternoon. He has a steering head in stock. Great news. I'll have the G3 back on the water by the weekend. Yippee.

Congratulations on the catch and those are some nice bull heads.