Last crappie fishing outings w/B-n-L as he's headed back to Idaho next week. Thursday things started off good fishing lake Harney, till bout noon when the bite slowed. Blue/white plastics on jigs saw the most action, put the fish on ice &
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Thursday "squeezed" in a trip before starting a home water softener install, behind me now & online[emoji108]. Went back to a first luv= Long- lining a local lake. Motor out to a 1st spot & the depth finder is showing 3 vertical
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Couple crazy weather days Thursday, think the mercury hit 86F & the wind put us on the hunt Friday....even soaked some minnows [emoji50]. Couple different lakes, creeks, & river. Jigged, trolled, & cork...no takers on the minnows,
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Well have the B-n-L coming to town, so I'd thought I would scout some other waters. Thursday went to a old favorite Harney & for the 1st time in memory /no trolling poles, just 2 jigging. Caught 9 or so in 10 fow @ the 46 bridge, only 1
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Seamed like the card game yesterday, drop your line & find a pair.... they're going into stage 2 of the spawn where the bigger males will eat their own fry (1/2"-3/4).... downsized my baits & it was game on. Single poled 50 or
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Had another good outing in the shallow water thumping specks a few days back (table pic) with no monsters, just solid 11"-13" fish on BG baby shad Mo-glow baits. So decided to change things up & long- line troll the St. John's
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Had so much fun snatching specks w/ jigging pole yesterday, went back too see if it wasn't a fluke. Well the males are dressed up & doing their part, with this recent cooler weather, the switch appears to be flipped. West point & Zebco
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Often we turn to faith in times of need, however, this post is more for praise as the only way I can explain the fishing Thursday and Friday. My Lord blessed (2) windows of opportunity of low winds & limits by 10:30 each morning. Thursday
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But we had to work for them. Met up w/Andy aka/Crappieday @ daybreak & it didn't take long before a few rods bent, however, I acknowledged to Andy beforehand that this was a scouting trip & I usually don't fish Jesup this time of yr,
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Got the boat out on Monroe 1 more time before a November hiatus due to work schedule. Morning started off calm w/slight breezes & overcast skies. The bite was steady for the most part, however, many more throwbacks today. @ 1 point counted
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Got a call earlier in the week from Bearlake Slab Daddy that Monroe had picked up steam & both our boats needed some run time, so that left a open seat in mine , didn't think twice about who I'd call & as usual he guided my boat to
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Had the pleasure yesterday to be in the boat w/Andy aka/Crappieday for the 1st time since his health issues came upon him last November & was blessed w/slight breezes & plenty of rod bending. Ended up being quite the P/T session for
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With the cooler than normal "May" weather forecasted w/reasonable wind, combined with a road test for the X, after fixing some recent engine codes, I traveled south a couple hrs to test my luck @ Stick Marsh/Farm Pond. The wind started
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To a couple days of fishing, with my visiting brother-n-law, who introduced me to crappie fishing in the early 90's...things are certainly different in our approach=long-lining vs minnows & float, since them earlier days, but the enthusiasm
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Friday & Saturday mornings with quite different conditions in the fish staging....Friday found some with preferred long- lining deployment....many fish seamed spawned out w/ only a couple out of the mess w/roe, which had me thinking the
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Friday got excited to fish w/Marv from Lakeland, as this trip would turn out to be around 2 yrs in the making w/his hip surgery followed up by this whole Co-vid stuff, we've often text on tactics, ect...so as a neutral site to both of our travels
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