Called up a buddy down in Florida that I hadn't spoken to in a while just to see how he was doing. I was almost immediately asked about why he hasn't seen a fishing report posted from me lately. Well I thought... I guess I can
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For the past 11 years we have lived in Gladwin County, on, or within just a couple miles of some outstanding crappie fishing waters. Recently that all changed when we moved north about 45 miles. Although the move wasn't all bad because it landed my family and I just a couple blocks from Houghton Lake, the largest inland lake in Michigan. Houghton Lake also happens to be a lake I grew up fishing and have hit some good numbers of slab crappies in the past few weeks. The down side of the move was that I hadn't been able to fish any
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Tired of the cheap store bought line strippers that never work right. I bought a set of hard plastic shot classes at WalMart. I drilled a hole bottom center of each one and bolted them together with a 1/4 by three bolt and a wing nut. Chucked it up
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As the sun starts sinking into the western sky near Lake Wylie on the North and South Carolina border, nightstalkers begin to prowl. They gather gear, sharpen hooks and prepare for the expected nocturnal onslaught. Rigged and ready at carefully calculated ambush sites, they wait for their victims.
At twilight first victim falls prey. Energized by that first fish slime on their hands, the massacre begins. We’re not talking Jack the Ripper here; we’re talking about night fishing under the lights by crappie fishermen who enjoy nocturnal fishing. This corps of crappie catchers coined the name
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Secret fishing place or location where one can take his Living Honey to catch a few real quick time after time, when the real honey say's... I only want to fish a few hours.... I might be late for my Pedi/Mani, it's getting hot out here, but
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Had a great time with my Grandson passing on an addiction. We kept around 60. Half were over a pound.
A couple well over 2 lbs. remember doing this 50 years ago with my papa
Scott Williams made a very tough decision during the Alabama River Crappie Masters Tournament just this last April (April 29th and 30th to be exact). It was a key decision that got him the win. Scott and Billy Williams took first place on the Alabama River Crappie Masters at Prattville Alabama, and I know the secret about that fateful decision.
They had fished this area many times before, and they had caught some
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I sort of have a skimpy fishing report today. My friend, Ricky W. and I hit the mid lake portion to crappie fish the off shore structures that are good this time of year. Alas, we didn't know that a Big Fish tournament was going on today prior
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Three generations of Watt's (40watt, myself and 10watt) headed out to spank some bream this morning. Didn't do much spanking as the bream were hard to find considering they weren't in the normal spots due to a lack of lilly pads from the
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Didn't catch but 5 on Monday, but they were all dandies. Smallest was 12 1/2" and the big daddy was almost 15 1/2". 1/16 oz. lead head jig with 2" purple and chartreuse softie. 7 ft. deep in 7 1/2 to 9 ft. of water.
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My plate was full this past weekend, but I found a couple hours to sneak back to the water Saturday morning. I had to be home at 9 AM and with the cloudy, overcast conditions, I decided I'd try the bass one more time. I recruited some help
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Finally got around to posting this....lately, I have been icing my fish down and cleaning the next day....much easier....wound up with 9 sacs (big one 14"), 2 small bass, 7 catfish, 2 goo, one gar....shiners of course...18" deep in
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there was clearly a steep ledge that went from 27 ft straight to 42 ft. We wore out some big catfish in this spot. I wish I would've took a pic in structure scan also. I will say that it looked like rock on structure scan but I confirmed that
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Steve Coleman of Tennessee and his partner, Ronnie Capps, are two of the most-successful tournament crappie fishermen in the nation. Coleman will tell us how he finds May crappie in a lake with current.
First, Ronnie and I search for structure and then check
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