Hit the bank on t hill with a couple buddies. Very slow compared to last time. Mostly dinks not many of them. After while friends had other places to go so mac and I kept dipping. Finally got into some goods ones and we ended up w 16 11.5 down
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Time to head back as bymo and his wife were coming over for dinner. Wanted to have some truly FRESH filets for dinner. Started slow and buds had said it was after sun was up on water only picked up few dinks after 7. Then one of my buds showed
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After doing all that ketchn in the spring I just stopped fishing. Now I have given away most I f the ketch so always motivated by empty freezer shelves.
My buds at my country place told me things were slow. So didn't fish much.
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Back at it in morning. Crappie guru buddy came who has worked this lake a lot and man he put on a show. Ketchn one after another and were using same color but he caught 6 or 7 for every one of mine. When he stopped w his limit I had 2. But
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Joined the Lake Stl Anglers who primarily are green carp C &R tourney guys but do do great work improving the two main lakes. Don't live there as we r seasonal weekend folks so don't make meetings but do show up for community service stuff
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After rain and recovery from heat stroke which took couple weeks right in middle of spawn finally had a couple days of perfect weather and no Papa daycare. As they went to FL. So I beat it up to see if the lake which had incredible late spawn
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My buddy Doug had been doing maintenance on his place on MTL and hasn't been out fishing and NEEDED a crappie fix so he came to my place and we got to work. He is part of the minnow boy crew and no one had any on his short trip to the mound
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Doug left and Charlie wanted to go out and yes occasionally I do fish on a boat. We launched and went to the area I had been bank fishing and yes they were still there in numbers. Bobber and one of junglejimjigs in chartreuse and other colors
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After 3 fabulous days o ketchn faced the fishing quandary. Do you leave great fishing to go where your fishing guru's are telling you they are on the banks and big? Well these guys are reliable and bymo is up from FL and wanted to get back
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Junglejimjigs and I had been wanting to get together as he had some bags of his fantastic hand tied jigs i wanted to buy. WE finally did again at a local city park and got that out of way and started ketchn. After wading thru the usual sunfish
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Went to private lake known for 3 lb ers and big bg. My bud who is ate up w numbers and had been k8lling them on bigger lakes kept apologizing but I caught a 15 + inch crappie, several 12 to 13+ and couple big bg. So I was fine. First time I
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Junglejimjigs posted pics of some cool feather jigs he tied this morning. We had fished together in spring and wanted to buy some from so we agreed to meet up. He lives half hour from me so I went to local lake and look what greeted me when
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Got out early but too late as spot I wanted had several locals. Went to second choice where have had some success and couple of local regulars there already. U want best spots u have to get there before daylight.
Always love getting out in October when so many seasons open and great time to go to my cabin. My buddy took a friend and hit my favorite fishing spot on t hill got there late after leaving LSL after cooling new recipe for crappie I saw and
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Finally had a chance for a road trip with 2 great couples. We did this 2 years before a charter lake Michigan excursion w 1 of dumper Dan's boat. We love to have our wives jump up first and do most of ketchn and they did great.