Crappie, Morels, and Turkey

[ktjones]

Took my mom crappie fishing this weekend on Table Rock on the King's River arm. Fished from 9:00 to about 15:30 and ended up with 4 keeps. One was 15.5". Headed back to my farm (around Richland) where I had left my truck. Christina and my mom went on home and mu cousin and I went to LOZ where we each ended up about 3 shy of a limit in one shallow cove. We were on the water at about 18:30 and off by 21:00.
I took Monday and half a day off on tuesday to turkey hunt. Monday, I had one of those probably should have taken the shot, probably could have got him, but didn't seem to be the ethical shot kind of situations so I didn't take the shot. He was moving to a clearer area where he was about to become dinner, passed behind a 3' tall cedar tree and I never saw or heard from him again. Tuesday, I set up where they had roosted the day before, of course they had roosted on the other side of a power line cut this time. I was 30yds in and called a tom in as far as the cut. He worked back and forth for about 20 min then I never heard from him again. I got skunked on the turkey hunting, but I ended up with a handfull of nice morels and got in many miles of hiking on some steep hills in full turkey hunting battle rattle. I'll get him next weekend. Sad part is, I have trail cam pics of over 35 turkeys in a flock with more than 8 toms visible from a month ago. You'd think all I'd have to do is swing a dead cat to get one.


All in all, good weekend. got to spend some quality time with my mom and got to enjoy my land.

[vic n]

You did have a good weekend....and shared time with your family. If you got your tom in the first 15 minutes, you would have missed out on all that great exercise!!

[claybuster]

Great report, it's always amazing how dumb a turkey can be ,,,,,,,,,, unless it's turkey season,,,,,,, then they act like they have a college degree in hunter evasion!!!!! Good luck, you'll gettem !

[ktjones]

My cousin just contacted me and it looks like I'm going to get to go snaggin' tomorrow night. I've never been and have always wanted to try it. I'm pretty excited. I hear it's a lot of work, but they have been bringing in some really nice ones. My goal for the weekend is a nice spoony, a turkey, some mushrooms and a mess of crappie this weekend. I could just about die a happy man if I land that quad-fecta. It's gonna be a busy weekend, but the kind of busy I love.

[crappies nightmare]

Sounds like a good time coming this weekend. Good luck.

[ktjones]

Update**
- The snagging trip didn't happen, the guy that was geared up for it had to bail so my cousin and I went crappie fishing instead. Ended up down near Buck's Dock around the corner from McCubbin's. Did ok.
- Didn't get a turkey either day.
- Found about a gallon bucket and a half of nice big morels.
- Went fishing by myself Saturday. I'd never put in at Linn Creek before (probably won't do it again until the water comes up) and I've never fished that area. I idled out from the ramp for what seemed like forever with my motor trimmed way up because the water was only about 2' deep. Then fished a few coves; hit shallow water, deep water, you name it with no luck. Went into a big cove (I forget the name) with some amazing homes and a restaurant called Fishing Company or something like that. I ended up catching 1 keeper in about 4 hours. Then the sun started going down and caught 9 more between 10.5" and 13.5" in the next hour. I don't think I threw back more than 3 during that hour.

*Result* - Having my mom and sister over for crappie and morels tonight.

[usafret99]

sounds like a great weekend