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    Dropped down to visit one of my favorite winter lunch break spots Monday . Thought I was going to whoop them pretty good . Tried a little larger bait and NOTHING ! Tried a little smaller bait and again NOTHING ! I had my depth set where it has been good and tried several different presentations , Still NOTHING ? So I decided to go a foot deeper knowing full well I was likely to get hung up in the cover , but one must try don't ya know ....
    Well all the sudden the float goes down and I found me a potato chip crappie
    and then another and then the size got better . Then it dawned on me , they are here in numbers and I went a bit deeper , but the presentation wasn't just right and I struggled a bit . Got frustrated and decided to jig the living you know what out of it and began popping my float like a sand bass fisherman . Then by golly it turned into the ketchn show and a lip ripping to beat the band adventure ensued . All the fish were released and I was all alone down there .
    So if you are without electronics and are pretty sure there are crappie to be had don't be afraid to go right out of the box on presentations , the shad were there in numbers getting blown up on the surface in lots of spots and I suppose the crappie wanted a FRANTIC bait ? probably landed at least 50 fish in an hour and a half and I imagine about half of them were keepers .
    anyway stay tuned ,but don't stay thirsty
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    Gooderns ! Great job figuring em out!

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    You’re killing me! Great report!

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    You were to wore out, to go back to work!

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    You hit the nail on the head, Ketchn. Presentation quite often makes the difference between getting blanked (or getting just a couple) and hammerin' 'em. Sometimes they want 'em bouncing and sometimes they won't hit anything but a deadstick presentation. Yesterday, they hit a cast and let it just swing back to a vertical position, hitting it as the jig got about 4 feet from being vertical. Dropping it to the right depth and swimming it didn't work. Experimentation with technique is the key to being successful when your "normal" technique isn't working.
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    Nice catch.

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    Nice catch.

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    Good job sticking with it and catching a bunch

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    Lemon Pie looked like it was working. Can't tell whose chartreuse, but it was good too.

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    Good job, congrats on the Ketch!

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