Thread: Celebrity spinoff

Fur lite and myself fished amongst the celebrities yesterday too. Always good to see Mitch, Coach and Mr Moss. If I make it to be 90, I sure hope I can get out and fish like he does. It was also good to see Brent (bill collector) yesterday and also to meet Eric (Crappieseeker, I hope I got that right) Brent don't post much, but he's good people too. He and Mitch talked all day. I don't know how they ever caught a fish. LOL

It was a long, long day starting at 5:00 am to get ready for the hour drive. We dropped in the water around 7:15 and fished until dark. The day started out great with 2 fish in the first 15 minutes, then it slowed down. We rode the waves until just after noon then after what seemed like a 30 mile boat ride, we caught some more, then finished up the day back where we started with a fantastic hour and a half. At 5:30 we had 14 keepers and right after 7:00 we had 44 in the livewell. We released 9 fish that were between 9 and 9 1/2. I'm not taking a chance and paying a short fish ticket. I'm guessing we boated somewhere around 65-70 total fish yesterday. We had a good meal with good company after the fishing. We ended up with 2 1/2 gallon bags of fillets. Throughout the size range, over half the fish were males. For reference the cutting board is 11 3/8" wide.

All fish were caught pulling jigs. Pink and chartreuse ended up being a big color for us.

I failed to mention that numbers wise, this was our best day to date. That made it even better. It was also a big confidence booster for me. Being able to hang in there numbers wise with the folks fishing in the other boats boosted my confidence. I’ve been pretty discouraged lately. We haven’t been catching any crappie. At least now I’m more confident that I can catch them I just have to find them.