Storming with Arkies this morning!

**cevans** · 05-19-2017, 05:21 PM

As I drove to the lake to fish this morning, I could see the heat lightning lighting up the sky west, north, and east of me and I was constantly checking the Spark Lightning app on the weather bug and could see the lighning was 25 miles north so at 6:30 am I launched ahead of 3 other boaters and motored to mid lake to check out the creek channel that had been good to me in the past. I got the 3 rods out loaded with Arkie crankbaits, water temp was 73, very light breeze, stars to south of me as dawn was breaking and clouds to the north. In 20 minutes I had 5 keepers already in the box all 10-13.5 inches and all of the sudden, couple bolts of lightning cracked and weather bug said 1.5 miles away. I waited and trolled on as that was the end of it, and the fish kept on slamming my crank baits, speed was 1.7 to 1.8 as I cranked it up from my previous times of cranking and I was in a hurry anyhow as the weather bug showed storms eventually hitting me. About 30 minutes later it rained but the fish didn't care and neither did I as I kept catching keepers running the creek channel as I was catching them 8-9 ft down over 10-14' of water next to the channel. In 2.5 hrs, had a limit and had released about 30 as I kept measuring them and if they didn't hit the 10" mark, back in the lake they went. Hot colors again was purple/chartruese and this time Mad Clown as the crome was the hottie of the morning. I couln't run but 2 rods on Mad Clown as I couldn't keep up with the rods going off. Beat it back to the launch and loaded up and was back on the road at 10:45am and the rain broke loose with a dash of pea sized hail as there had to be 18 or more boaters getting slammed by the storms. You can sometimes get lucky as these fronts move thru and the fish are in a feeding mode. This time in cleaning the catch, 7 were males. Eggs still aren't ready for the fish to spawn. Sorry about the pic being sideways. Keep on fishing.

**Locator79** · 05-19-2017, 08:07 PM

Looking good, my absolute favorite time to fish is in rain or snow. I've had many banner days when some stayed home and wished for fair weather. Sounds like you came south with those water temps.

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**cevans** · 05-19-2017, 08:20 PM

Same goes for deer hunting. The crappier the weather, big ones will move. Make the most of miserable weather!

**binfordw** · 05-20-2017, 03:45 PM

Just curious, what made you run arkies instead of bandits?

**cevans** · 05-20-2017, 04:06 PM

I have about 70 of each in 300 and 350 each, but no mad clowns in bandits, so just for the heck of it, ran all arkies yesterday. I mix them sometimes and they both work the same. Stagger the depth till you find them, then set everything the same and hammer away. and last nite ordered 8 more arkies in mad clown and purple with chartreuse belly. And I have maybe 40-50 200 series bandits also as well as a dozen 100 series for shallow water river smallmouth fishing.

**Locator79** · 05-20-2017, 07:23 PM

Hey cevans, where are you getting the best price on those?

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**cevans** · 05-20-2017, 07:48 PM

Originally Posted by Locator79

Hey cevans, where are you getting the best price on those?

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I have been looking all over the internet for the purple/chartreuse as I am down to 2,,and kept looking for bandits of that color,,and finally realized it was a Arkie..color is CD3-62 Purple Dawn,,and so I didn't shop and went to Arkie and ordered 4 of them and 4 of the Mad Clown and just paid the price off their website. Didn't want to take any more time looking and they should be here this coming week. CD3-35 is the Mad Clown color,,and its also a hottie in pretty clean water. They have been slamming the heck out those 2 baits for me. And I have been trying every color imaginable,,other colors do catch fish..these they devour. Last year,,the purple/chartreuse got to be the hot color and its still hot this year. I will tell you this also..I ordered some twister tail jigs..off Bob's jigs,,http://www.crappie.com/crappie/-memb...lable-website/ as I still use the heck out of them, and some of my fav. colors,,again are chartreuse, yellow orange and he has some very nice ones,,a hottie the other day on Monroe,,was his purple/chartreuse tail. It burnt them up even tho the crappies were only 9" to 7". There again,,I have every Arkie Jig they make as well as every imaginable hair jig, tube jig as I like to inject the tubes with crappie nibbles. Good luck fishing your jigs,,they look awesome and I love your color selections.

**Locator79** · 05-20-2017, 08:03 PM

The blue and purple and pink and shad have been all I've been trolling for months. I quit buying store bought jigs. My jigs were out fishing anything I had 5 to 1.

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