My buddy has some strip pits down near Montrose. We got a late start and only caught some small bass. He had put a brush pile out when the ice was thick. When we got there the pile hadn’t even sunk below because the water was only 8-9 FOW.
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not many were ketched , maybe around 25 or so total fish , made us work to get bit ....
pattern was similar it seemed , but just less fish in the area is my guess
some bluegill and crappie and bass were ketched by the 3 of us
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I got out yesterday for some pond fishing. Took two rods, one rigged with a tiny 1/24 duck feather jig and the other with a bigger 1/16 with a #4 hook. Smaller bait was 1.25" long and the other about 2.5" in length. Still snow on
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Had to make an unexpected trip to my Astor Fish Camp with my brother last week due to our Dad being in the Deland hospital with pneumonia. He’s out and better now after a 10 night stay. He insisted we take his boat out a couple times in the
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I just put some Varivas 3# SIGHT EDITION on my Stella and needed a place to try it out so fished a pond where I always do pretty good no matter what time of year. Never had much success in the past with hi vis line but getting older so it's
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Stop it. Stop right now. Put away your small crappie lures and get out the big ones!
“All the years I have been guiding,” Beaver Lake crappie guide Payton Usrey continued, “I think every time this time of year everything starts moving up the river arms. They are coming from miles away to get up into the river arms from the big end of the lake. All of a sudden big fish just appear from nowhere and these are fish that aren't in this area any other time.”
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You pull into the boat ramp and it’s the first question everyone asks you? How much did your big crappie weigh? An honest angler has probably weighed their fish with a digital scale that gives you pounds and ounces of the biggest one while a wise angler asks you what was your biggest one first then answers a few ounces more.
The easiest way of calculating a weight of a crappie is measuring it and using a standard length to weight formula you can find available on the internet. These length weight formulas are based on a growth formula
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Finally big and lil lake open. Hit lil first and nothing for hour deeper w bobber and even minnow trailer on maribou jig. Finally cast closer to bank and brought in slowly and picked up a few. None real big but still fun.
Finally got a win, of sorts, at a RCC tourny. Fish all last year and came close, but no cigar. 7 fish for a 10.40lb bag limit. My big fish was a nice 1.81 but fell short too. Winning bag was 10.87. Big fish was 1.87. 4 teams with
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Well it’s been awhile since I’ve been out, after Guntersville tournament I had a problem with my trim stuck running constantly up and had to get new relays and solved that problem but ran into another white the motor pulsing while getting up
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We’re up in Maine for winter vacation, crazy huh? Nah we just love a real winter sometimes. Went ice fishing today on Unity Pond in Unity Maine. We pulled 9 nice crappies through the holes. Great time up here.
Started out a beautiful morning. As the day progressed clouds increased and the wind picked up out of the south. Enough of the weather reports, now on to the fishing. Over the last couple of trips I have been paying attention to water temperatures.
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Ice is off Kansas and lakes and the crappie are still in there winter haunts. Most all the fish I've caught in Oklahoma and Kansas the last week have been in 18 to 22 FOW. Water temp was 38 when I got off the lake Monday and water was fairly
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