Truman weekend

[grb22]

Went to Truman Sat and Sun with my son, had a great time. Fished between Bucksaw and Hwy U bridge both days and caught some pretty good fish around the hardwoods. The good depths for us were between 17 and 30 ft, with 17-22 probably being the most productive. Caught most fish 8-15 deep with 10-12 being best; caught our biggest fish of the weekend at 20' +/- in 30 FOW, but didn't catch too many others at that depth. Colors? Pink and white/silver flake won hands down, nothing else even came close. Caught em with pink top silver-flaked skirt till we ran out, then switched to silver-flaked body with pink skirt and kept catching. Tried other color combos and caught some, but the pink/white/silver flake blew em all away for us.

Got there Sat afternoon about 330 or so, so got to watch some of the tournament weigh ins, pretty cool stuff. Saw OSS and a couple other CDC fellers weigh their catch, so that was really cool too. Son met Mr. Crappie, Wally Marshall, so, once again, that was cool.

Here are some pics, my son is the young handsome one, I am the old ugly dude:

Big fish from Saturday evening

A couple from Sunday morning

Getting ready to filet these dudes Sunday before we had to get home


Good fishing all!

[Buckwheat 1]

Smile on that boys face says it all! Glad ya had a good trip

[olesilverside]

man gotta love that diamond plate, going to steal that one of these days, just as soon I run low on some......

[beagle man]

outstanding report, congrats. on the great day fishing.

[bwillaub]

Great report. Good lookin kid there. Looks like you had great time. Memories made.

[grb22]

Thanks all. We didn't catch huge numbers of fish (but we did catch enough numbers to keep us happy), but the ones we did catch had pretty good size to them. We fished an area that we had never fished before so was a plus to catch fish and map a new site for the future. Sunday morning was actually nice, the cloud cover and about a 15 minute downpour actually made the temps pretty nice, started to heat up around noon or so but we were getting ready to leave so it didnt bother us too much. It was fun.

Good fishing all!

[got crappie]

Fishing with your son thats all you have to say the fish are a minor detail.

[Just Jiggin]

Nice fish. I was up Sat & fished between the marina & the cut threw & had a good limit in 2 hrs. Started at 630 am. I was around the weigh in also. Got to see a bunch of CDC members. That son of yours looks pretty happy with those nice big slabs. Thanks for the report.

[DRD]

looks like you guys had a good weekend, nice report

[MarknKC]

Looks like you had a great time that won't be forgotten soon! I let the wind and waves on the flat up from Otter Creek run me off early Sunday morning, so way to stick with it!