So, lets start with the food... We had fried crappie filets, and whole bream, seasoned fries and hushpuppies, coleslaw, a big pot of season greens, and a table full of desserts, including some awesome homemade ice cream!
Locked thru and started out fishing tops in 14 fow at 9 ft deep until 11 am. Then I had about 8 and changed to a slow troll in 16 fow fishing 8-10 ft deep and started picking up more and bigger fish. Grey hair jig early and Electric Chicken
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With the temperatures in the 90's and heat indexes near 100 for the next several days, thought I'd do a little night fishing. Fished Friday & Saturday nights, and surface temp was 86 Friday & 88.5 Saturday. Jumped 2.5 degrees in a day-
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We arrived at Houghton Lake Michigan Crappie Camp and had to find us some food for camp.
Got to camp and Billbob felt good because of all the Patriotism being displayed in front of all the sites. Was very nice. Almost every site had a flag waving in front.
Found Rich cleaning some fish. He had Perch, Crappie and Walleye.
Oh, oh, lookie what Billbob found, the cakelady! lol
Water temp 81, air temp reached 91 with it feeling like 94 with high humidity, little to no breeze and after a light shower at 6 am, it was pure sunny. Caught 60 and kept 18 from 10” to 14.5. 3 of the biggest females still had eggs all the
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I admit it. I know pushers. Yes, I know pushers get a bad rap, but these pushers aren’t pushing drugs instead they are pushing crankbaits and more specifically lipless crankbaits.
It all started with a trip out on the water with PICO Lures owner Mitch Glenn. Utilizing several rods, Glenn was able to present different lures at different depths to crappie along with other game fish. One of the lures happened to
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Went to area we had done so well at trolling cranks and all is different one or two here and there but not showing up on ff as before and not making the poles bend either. Thinking it may have something to do with a lack of wind lately.
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Went a while this morning but man it got hot early. Managed 7, some on cranks, the rest on single pole. Had three that went 15" though. Pretty good on my ole fishin hole!!
Happy Fathers Day everyone!!
Last week our neighbors went out of town for daughters softball tournament. Their 11 year old son Peyton didn't want to go so they asked if he could hangout with Mr Scotty until the Grandpa got home. I said sure he can if I could take him fishing.
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Daylight till around 11....kept 15 sacs and one bass....most on shiners....some on white curly tail jig....3 ft deep in 7 fow.......north of I10.....gar are everywhere....trying out some of that "Slab Sauce" spray....it stays on the
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My niece Adrienne and I always spend one day fishing when she visits, usually my wife Judy is working so she can’t go, but this time it worked out on a Saturday so Judy was able to go. I told them both they would catch the fish today, I would
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the graph quit on us at launch yesterday ....OH NO mister bill whatever will we do .....
we will never find them ,it is over before we even drop a jig ....
no docks to pitch under
no standing timber
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I have tried many scents over the past 65 years that I have been fishing. I remember my dad and I making our own scents as far back in 1953 when I was only eight. He would experiment with different oils and anise and I guess
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I really only usually get to fish on Sunday mornings. Two Sunday's ago I was sidelined due to a boat issue. Last Sunday my buddy and I tried a new pond and struck out on Crappie. This week we decided we needed to get on some fish and went
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The weather folks have predictably mis-forecasted the weather for the past couple of weeks. No foolin'? Last night a big cold front came through, which made fishing today speculative at best. However, it's been way too long for Walt & I
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To scent, or not to scent, that is the question? For anglers it’s not a question of why scent products work, but that they do increase the number of crappie they can catch. Lucky for anglers several companies have easy to apply crappie specific scent products in different formulas.
North Alabama crappie fishing guide Lee Pitts spends countless hours on the
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