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Took my first(!) trip this year with the wife to Brookville today, hit the lake early and was suprised to see only 3 trailers at eqypt hollow ramp. I think my plan of the rain keeping people away must have worked!
We pulled cranks just to get some crappie in the boat for supper(s). I ran 6 rods, using the 12' southern crappie rods (my wife hates lol) for the outside, worked pretty well. (I have a couple planer boards but Ive never even got them wet, just seems too big of a hassle for crappie to me) A few passes and we started to find them, then changing depths to the rods running depths that were getting action seemed to pick things up even more. I later tried swapping crank colors on a few rods, but not sure I could tell if it really helped, we were catching some on what seemed like all colors.
The crappie were smaller than in previous years for me, but we did pick up a 12" and a 13". The rest were 9-10 ish, and had half a dozen or so to throw back. We also nabbed a good sized yellow perch, and a few white bass, one being fairly big.
The rain started early and never quit, we only stayed about 3 hours, I had planned to be off the water for lunch anyway. I'll fish in the rain anyday if it keeps the party boaters away.
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Nice report and glad to see you back out fishing. Keep the reports coming!
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Thanks Chuck!
Its good to know the cranking I learned from here puts them in the boat even when I'm rusty.
Now if I could just figure out how to catch them well on a jig, it'd sure be nice. My wife gets bored pretty quickly trolling, and I don't blame her really. Its more of reeling them to the boat than fishing.