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    Spur of the moment and acting on Speck Detector's recent post history, I teamed up with Pontoon Pappy to fish Jeff's large, vast Crappie candy store lake. Before sending out an SOS for help with our meager l/l results, we were basically but roughly in the area that Jeff would recommend. We made it to an area Jeff had proferred only to find it inundated with a SPIDER WEB of submerged catfish trotlines! After freeing our multitude of snagged lines, we got schooled by a commercial fisherman's "conversation" = up close & personal...some of the trotline floats were meager 1 quart oil bottles! We decided to do the dippity-do in the pads and cypress trees. 1st fish, almost instantly, was a dark, tuxedoed 12" studName:  20210107_065420 (1).jpg
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Size:  86.4 KB(Pic w/Don did not do it proper size proportion justice) We chose to stay with the single-line for the balance of our always fun-filled, weather perfect day. Kept for the cleaning table were 14 specks, 3 cats with a few "hummers"(specks and cats) lost at boatside/LDR. Back @ramp near sunset was approximately 30-40 FWC officers with 2 center consoled FWC rigs pulled up to shoreline. Thankfully the submerged boat in canal was successfully removed. The females are still, I think, mostly staged somewhat offshore awaiting the shallow-water courtship Definitely a great diversion from my salt diet. Both Pontoon Pappy and I have a "minimal" amount of l/l experience on this lake but still made something
    happen. Great diversion to the day's lunacy news only learned on my Westward return home

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    Back in the day when I used to run a few trot lines the law was lines had to be out shortly after daylight. Wondering if that rule is still in effect
    and we also were required to put our names on the floats. What is the rule today?

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    those trout lines can make a mess of your trolling set up real fast. Glad that you found where they were hiding. thanks for a good report.


    another good day at the office !
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    A good trip with enough fish for dinner. Works for me. Glad they got the boat moved.
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    I see the issue in the open water pursuit, too nice of a day= no wind..... Note/never go by them white jugs floating....yrs ago in my older boat I rapped 1 of those trout lines around the prop @ night fall...made good work of that guy's line w/filet knife, he stopped putting out for a while. ....Good to see the dark guys showing up on the shoreline, been waiting, gonna really ramp things up soon....

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    What lake was this, just curious due to the trot lines like that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ranger07 View Post
    What lake was this, just curious due to the trot lines like that?
    lake Jessup ...
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