• Crankin Bandits in the heat today.

    Got on the lake at 7:30 am and after 20-30 minutes of crankin in 10-12' of water near banks like last week,,no go,,so went to river channel,,and cranked down along it in 10-12' of water and after another 30 minutes, figured that if I zig zaged across the channel back and forth, fish were on the breaks of the channel and next 4 hours culled and measured out 10.5 to 14" limit. Also caught 6 yellow ringed perch of which one was 13.5" that I kept and you will see that fat sucker in the pic of the cooler. Caught 1 lg. mouth bass, and 6 yellow bass also as well as 40-50 other crappies below 10.5 were released. Long day so didn't take a pic of the fish all layed out. Water temp started at 76.5 and ended up at 1:30, 83.5. Very light wind out of the east. Temp cracked 90 by the time I got the boat on the trailer and road. Umbrella was used to break the high noon sun. In cleaning the fish, all but 2 of the largest females had spawned!!!!! I think that was why it was kind of a hit and miss day till I started the zig zagging across the creek channel in mid lake. Post Spawn crappies!

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    Comments 12 Comments
    1. scrat's Avatar
      scrat -
      Wow! Nice catch. Thanks for sharing the Cranking Bandits report and pictures.
    1. Speckanator's Avatar
      Speckanator -
      Send the head goober a video or something.....he needs some instructional help with dem cranks
    1. RetiredRR's Avatar
      RetiredRR -
      I'm impressed and congrats.
    1. Ketchn's Avatar
      Ketchn -
      thats a nice perch right there for sure ...good read and nice fish as well ...
    1. Billbob's Avatar
      Billbob -
      good fish
    1. Anchor Man's Avatar
      Anchor Man -
      Nice going, yes some times they want it coming from a different direction. I always do circles ans figure 8's.
    1. brucec's Avatar
      brucec -
      Good catch.
    1. "G"'s Avatar
      "G" -
      Way to go Chuck
    1. Dave and Lynn's Avatar
      Dave and Lynn -
      Very nice catch and report
    1. Speck Detector's Avatar
      Speck Detector -
      Persistence pays off, nice haul of cooler...
    1. "D"'s Avatar
      "D" -
      Super catch.
    1. Muskrat's Avatar
      Muskrat -
      Nice - way to go !
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