Sunday morning crappie fishing with Candi

Published on 07-26-2017 04:19 AM

Candi and I got out at daylight this morning in our quest for crappie. We had a fair morning as we caught one limit of keepers and a couple of short fish. Also, one small trashy green fish and two yellow bass tried to eat the lure that Candi was throwing this morning. As usual, she caught the two biggest fish today including a 14" Black Crappie and a 13.5" Black crappie. I did manage a couple of 13's. Grin.

Water temp when we started was a little over 84 degrees and had risen to 86.3 when we stopped at 9:45. Our productive lures were by Bobby Garland in Bluegrass Slab Slayers, Black Night Baby Shads and in the Minnow Mind'R Glacier colors. Candi also caught a couple on Outlaw Special color. I tried Green Thunder but to no avail. All our fish were released this morning. We got some pretty good pics today.

TVA running over 14,000 CFS and there was a nice cool breeze blowing all morning which kept the sun from being too hot. We fished one bluff area and several off shore areas and caught a few fish at every stop but one. I hope that you enjoy the pics. I had a fishing machine fishing with me this morning. Grin.

Candi posted:

Thanks for a great early am for catching some great size slabs. I appreciate you teaching me more details on catching those deep crappie! Let's do it again real soon!

Donuts for a crappie trip, doesn't get much better than that!

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11 Comments

Ketchn - 07-26-2017, 06:59 AM
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Very nice .... I love black crappie .....and those are some nice ones ....congrats to both of yawl .....and then donuts make for a great day almost every time as well

darcie1 - 07-26-2017, 07:17 AM
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Great fish and great pic's.

GoTennTitans - 07-26-2017, 09:02 AM
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Looks like a great morning.......including the Krispy Kremes! Betcha didn't throw them back. . GTT

Nutbush - 07-26-2017, 09:12 AM
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I love reading your posts. You are one of the few that I read about that uses one pole and cast and retrieve. May I ask how do you go about knowing where to fish?

hdhntr - 07-26-2017, 11:19 AM
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thanks for bringing us along on our delightful morning.

scrat - 07-26-2017, 01:14 PM
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Wow! Nice crappie. Those great big smiles said it it all. Thanks for sharing the report and pictures.

drumking - 07-26-2017, 01:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Nutbush

I love reading your posts. You are one of the few that I read about that uses one pole and cast and retrieve. May I ask how do you go about knowing where to fish?

If you read my post on 7/25/2017 in the Tennessee section, I go into greater detail on what I look for and how I determine where to fish. Thank you for your kind comments. DK