Thats what fishing is all about right there. Sharing spots, sharing rods, don't want your bud going fishless. Thanks for the story Duck
Decided to go try my luck tonight after work at a local spillway we usually fish during the winter and spring months, just needed to get out and do somthing different. Invited along a friends son whos a freshman at Del Tech Community College since he has a break for a few days from baseball practice.
First went and caught some grass shrimp since they are sometimes a good bait around here in our mill ponds. Wow was my little seacret shimp spot loaded with shrimp, caught about 300 in 3 dips, so a good start!
So off to the spillway, Kyle tried some shrimp right away and caught a small perch, I was in the middles of a giant tangle i got on 1st cast, not such a good start? Kyle kept trying the shrimp but no good so when i finally got re rigged with a 2 1/2 fin-s on a 1/32 jig head i whipped it up under the spillway and bam, small crappie, encouraging! Told kyle if i do that again they are probably up underneath, well bam again and another small crappie, 6 to 8 inches. Well bam, bam, bam, etc.... 5 more small crappie pretty much as quick as i could get up under there?
So now im feeling a bit guilty since my friend is not doing so good with his heavier line and pole so I give him my pole and spot and he immediatly starts doing a very good imatation of my preformance. Hey what are friends for? I rig another fin-s and jig in my other pole and move to the other side of the spillway and start getting them there too. So till we leave when it was pretty dark I caught 15 and kyle caught 11 in about 1 1/2 hours of fishing. Think there might be a nice school there? Most all were in the 6 to 8 inch size which is good since we have been a little concerned about the future of this pond since our spring outings there were not as good as they have been in the past, so there is a good batch of crappie coming along I would think
I did get one slab that was 13", seemed like a monster compared to all the smaller fish we caught!
So like I said a great evening adventure, might try again tomarro to see if it was just a fluke?
Thats what fishing is all about right there. Sharing spots, sharing rods, don't want your bud going fishless. Thanks for the story Duck
Stopped by the s plillway with G-duck tonight after supper for an hr. or so got about a dozen each. I been fishing that spot for many years and never caught fish that size they were always fairly big and this past spring was slower then normal there I was wondering if all those big ole crappie died off but it appears we have a new class of fish coming on in there now, probably a good sign for the future.