CUonthelake couldn’t go this morning and Phil is in Idaho, so I had to go by myself today. It was a perfect day weather wise. The crappie wanted to play and I had a ball catching all these fish. I ended up with 10 keepers and 33 short fish
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I met Candi at Food City parking lot at 9:30 and we drove to Skull Island ramp and crappie fished until 12:00. We fished docks in the mid lake area and had fair success for the short time that we fished. 9 keepers and several short fish. Candi
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Jay and I got on the water about a quarter to 8 am with hopes of bass fishing with top water lures, but a strong South wind quickly nixed that idea and our backup plan was to crappie fish. We caught a ton of crappie this morning, probably 50
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I think that I have finally figured out why Cuonthelake has been beating me so badly at crappie fishing the past three trips. She won today 5-0 on keepers, plus she caught a channel catfish but I had to hold it for the pic. She won’t touch
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Dr Phillip Gawthrop met me in the parking lot of Food City at 6 am and 15-20 minutes later, we were on our way to an offshore structure that has been good lately. By 7:30 we had 14 keepers in the live well and decided to move. We ran to a bluff
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It seems that Biofisher brings out the best in the crappie bite. We had a before daylight start and fished until 8:30 with 12 keepers landed and 3 other big crappie pulling off at the net. Bummer. One looked tarp sized. The first one that I
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Somebody forgot to tell the fish that crappie don’t bite in the summer time. Gary and I had a great 4 hours of fishing although from the 6:15 start, it was slow to almost nonexistent as the first three places were void of any fish activity.
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My wife, Wanda, told me that we were in dog days. She didn’t say that I was a dog for fishing so much. Big Grin. I made her happy by bringing home 4 keeper sized bass, 15.5-17” and they are destined for the dinner plate tonight. Boss Lady has
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Biofisher and I got July off to a hot start. The bigger crappie stayed away, but the little fish wore us out. We ended up with 25 keepers 10.25-11.5”. But we must have caught over 100 short crappie. Gary was keeping count at the beginning and
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A quick report of crappie fishing with two of my fishing buddies. Jay W and Gary, aka Biofisher. Both days we quit before 9:30 because of the heat and that is just how we roll in July and August.
I had a routine dental appointment this morning so Candi and I got out later than we would normally this time of year, but what we lacked in numbers, we more than made up for in quality fish. We had 2.5 hrs of fishing time and 20-30 minutes
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You would think with the current moon phase, the north wind blowing hard enough to create small white caps, tva flowing 13,000 at 6 am up to 20,000 at 10 when we stopped fishing, water temp at 79.9 surface and not a cloud in the sky that fishing
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Cuonthelake and I got out early enough to get a beautiful sunrise type pic. The fish that we found were all deep and most offshore structure. Candi really showed out by spanking her mentor badly. Not only caught the most, but the biggest fish
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My wife and I drove up to the Cumberland Plateau to visit with and fish with brother in law, Leon, and Wanda’s sister, Joan. Unfortunately, Leon had to go to the hospital in Knoxville because his knee locked up and he couldn’t walk. So I fished
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Stats first. Water temp 51 degrees. Water flow 75,000 cfs. Weather, cloudy with short periods of rain showers. Company, only one guide boat and he stayed away from us. I like it like that. Grin.
Today my friend Mr S helped me out by sinking a the last crappie hotel that JayW built for me. I’m thinking that the area will be perfect for post spawning and summer time crappie fishing. Possibly pre spawn as well. I will keep checking on
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