Brenda and I had the honor of being invited to meet and eat with the Lew's pro staff today thanks to an invite from our pal Wally Marshall. I got a lot of BS'n done. Got to talk to David Fritts and other bassers. I enjoyed it and the pros
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About 12 years ago I asked myself that same question. I’d been to weigh-ins for bass and crappie tournaments. I even watched several blast-offs. I’d convinced myself that I knew enough about crappie fishing at my home lake, Barnett Reservoir near Jackson, to compete with the big boys. At that time I was in my early 40’s and had grown up fishing Barnett and the spillway area. I knew
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Even I can catch fish at Sardis LOl. Ciller, as you can see the scales have batts again! Water is cooling, started at 70 ended at 74. No Thermo. Big fish are spreading out off the edges and into the flats making them more challenging
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Got the itch to go wet a hook about 1330. called big john and with little or no arm twisting he mounted up and headed this way. we got to the lake about 315 and started catching fish around 4 or so. we were spider rigging shiners under an
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The wind was very brisk and at wind chill felt like 32 degrees. No sunshine here. My wife started fishing with my brother and I but it was just to chilly for her. Ran the trolling motor batteries down but we kept 11 crappie over 10". No
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Took some time from Bow Hunting, shot a buck could not recovery him (hate to lose one). Needed some crappie therapy to get over the loss of the Deer. Kept 20 crappie and a Kentucky bass. Not big crappie but thick and healthy. Arkie pearl
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Went on a camping adventure with my boy, and the weekend weather sure was nice. The quality bite has slowed down for me, but still plenty of shorts to keep things fun. Majority came from 12'-15', but had to probe different depths down to
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The weatherman had been wrong 2 days in a row so we decided to take our chances on 60 percent rain.......beautiful day with no wind. We fished the edge of the channel in about 18-24 foot of water using #4 piece of lead and litewirehooks.
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You don't win crappie tournaments by fishing in the wrong pattern or technique. In fact, it takes a team and two perfect days of fishing to win. Kyle Schoenherr and Rodney Neuhaus were able to find the right pattern and technique on Kentucky Lake to win the 2015 Crappie Master National Championship.
The winning pattern Schoenherr and Neuhaus found was a typical fall pattern on a Tennessee
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Taking a crappie fishing trip to a new lake can be the ultimate adventure for a diehard crappie angler. That’s especially true when fishing reports are outstanding, making some anglers think they may have to hide behind a tree to bait their hook the crappie are so prolific and hungry.
But slaying the slabs as soon as you launch your boat is seldom the reality. The information about crappie being prolific and huge can be true. But without a well thought out game plan it
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Fished Lake Seminole Friday with dad. We were longlining 12 poles pulling litewire hooks and an assortment of artificials (mostly southern pro 2" hot grubs).
Fished from around 7-12:30. Probably boated over 60 fish including
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I would like to give a big thanks to Nimrod "C.A." for two great days of fishing. C.A. was a wonderful host and if the pictures show up you will see some of what we did. My son and I had one of the most enjoyable times that we have
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Today was another learning experience in the pursuit of Crappie. I made a trip to Barron Fork this morning. I tried single pole on isolated brush and laydowns with no luck. Then I spent several hours spider rigging with every color combination
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My dad and I made a trip out to Big Lake on Monday afternoon to start the week off and then again on Friday to finish off the week. We caught a limit of shrimp and crabs on Monday and a limit of shrimp and 4 dozen crabs on Friday.
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Wyatt wanted to get Mom out this morning so we put in at Bucksaw. After hearing it has been a slow bite I was a little worried about the amount of catching we would have.
Turned out to be a great morning. Started out front of
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