Bay Springs Lake

[Papermouth62]

Hi All, Just Wanted To Know If Anyone Has Been Crappie
Fishing On Bay Springs Lately?
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[J White]

Hi All, Just Wanted To Know If Anyone Has Been Crappie
Fishing On Bay Springs Lately?
:

Sorry to say, I haven't got to fish anywhere for the past three weekends,
but plans are to camp at Piney Grove this Thurs-Sun, so if you are up that
way, look me up. Should be able to catch enough to make the grease stink,
anyway. White Dodge dually w/slide in camper, on the water it'll be the
od green SeaArk w/Honda, trolling no doubt!

[Papermouth62]

Sorry to say, I haven't got to fish anywhere for the past three weekends,
but plans are to camp at Piney Grove this Thurs-Sun, so if you are up that
way, look me up. Should be able to catch enough to make the grease stink,
anyway. White Dodge dually w/slide in camper, on the water it'll be the
od green SeaArk w/Honda, trolling no doubt!

THANKS J, FOR THE REPLY, IF EVERYTHING GOES WELL I WILL BE ON THE LAKE FRIDAY EVENING LATE , GONNA TRY MY HAND FOR SOME NIGHT CRAPPIES
I WILL BE THE ONE IN THE G3 175PF WITH A 60 YAMAHA,
AROUND MCDOUGLE BRANCH AND THE OLD LEVIE . I FOUND SEVERAL GOOD SCHOOLS OUT THERE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WHILE CHASING BASS..
GOOD LUCK .

[ShilohRed]

Sorry to say, I haven't got to fish anywhere for the past three weekends,
but plans are to camp at Piney Grove this Thurs-Sun, so if you are up that
way, look me up. Should be able to catch enough to make the grease stink,
anyway. White Dodge dually w/slide in camper, on the water it'll be the
od green SeaArk w/Honda, trolling no doubt!

J White what kind of camper do you have?
Had my wife talked into a truck camper, We bought a 04 chevy crew cab short bed duramax 4x4 to haul a truck camper in. Then found out it was a lot easer to find campers for a long bed. So we are still looking. OR shoud I say I'm still looking. She is trying to talk me into a fifth wheel camper. And the tow a 20 ft boat behind that . So look out 65 ft long.. Train..
Unless I find a nice used short bed truck camper with a bath. I told her if I ran across a angler that would fit our truck we may still have a truck camper.

How do you like yours?

Pete

[J White]

Pete, we've got an older ('92) Coachmen 115SD. It has the queen bed
long-ways above the cab. It is fairly heavy - about 3200 lbs with the
TV and microwave and all. I hauled it on a 3/4 ton Chevy for a couple
of years, but never felt safe doing it. The Dodge dually I got now, you
hardly know it's on there. It hangs about 3 1/2 feet out the back of a
8 foot bed, so I still have to have a 18" hitch extension to pull the boat.
I probably would have just got a fifth wheel, but at the time everybody
discouraged me from towing a boat behind one. Since then I've seen a
lot of people doing just that, and they say its not to bad as long as you
don't get caught in a situation where you have to back up - you can't!
I wanted a Lance slide-in, but sticker shock on a new one bout killed me-
they asked me $27,000 for the top of the line with a propane gen set!
After owning big mama for several years, my take is that if you are just
wanting a place to sleep and store stuff, a smaller slide-in is great, but
if you have kids and are really into camping, a big one will drive you crazy.
You get a lot more for your money with a fiver or TT, the slide-in is so
high off the ground, even with the fold out steps that my legs ache after
a weekend climbing in and out of it, and the bathroon is so small and
uncomfortable, about all we try to do is pee in it. If the kids get wild with
the water taking a shower, as kids will, it leaks into places it shoudn't.
I've had enough practice I can load/unload in about 15 minutes, but it
would be SO much easier to just unhook from a pull-type. Some of the
newer slide-ins are so heavy they aren't even legally within what most
duallys can carry. I've heard numbers pushing 5,000 on some of them!
As you can find used fivers at such good bargains sometimes, thats probably
the direction we are headed. Jeff

[ShilohRed]

We have been looking for a 5th wheel that is no longer then 25 ft from the pin to the back bumper. Even with that were 65 ft. And thats not counting the motor sticking out 2 1/2 ft.
WE are going next weekend and looking at a Glendale Titanium 25E30. Its 25ft from the pin to the back bumper. But over all its 30 ft. part of the front bed sticks over the cab of the truck.
That one or a Ameria- Camp 25 with 2 slides. And the one above also has 2 slides.
WE went to East Tn and looked at Truck campers. And they has plenty of lances. But the one we loved ( Until the price hit us) was a Okanagan 811SL it has a slide out also. Man its nice. but he $25000. Was not.
Its hard to pay the kind of money they ask for these truck campers. When you can get so much more camper for about the same $$ or less.
I still think the truck camper would be easy to get around with the boat behind it. but guess we will be towing 2 at at time. Just can't go to AL. There it can be a car but not a trailer behind one. Also everything I have read it has to be a fifth wheel camper to tow behind . And in Tn it has to be for personal use. to tow the boat behind it.

Pete

[J White]

Another thing I forgot to mention is with either set up it would be
impossible to see my boat out the mirrors - your wider boat it wouldn't
be such a problem. I have the camper mirrors and can see around the
8 foot wide camper, but seeing a 6 foot wide boat is another story!
I didn't have camper mirrors at first on my previous Chevy, and it was
a nightmare trying to change lanes on the 4 lane - just put your signal
on and eeeeease over, listening for the honking horn... What scared me
was the thoughts of pulling over in front of a big rig. Was pure hell backing
down a boat ramp too! I have got a old car antenna and big orange bobber
I plan to mount on the side of my boat trailer to look at and make sure it
is still back there, but haven't got around to putting it on yet.

[SteveJ]

http://www.deweysautosupply.com/trkcampers.htm

Have never bought from him but when I was looking he had the best price on truck camper's I could find.