Dr Phillip Gawthrop and I had an early morning crappie trip and we’re meeting friends to fish together. Different boats though. Grin. The fishing was slow to begin the day with, but picked up a little after daylight.
I fished both days from dawn until 10:00 am, it was already 90° and the yahoos were thick by the shift change so I was more than happy to give them the water at quittin time.
Sat- Jigs only ( only other time
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Made a run south to Lake Sibley in Natchitoches on Sunday and had a good trip pulling bandit 300's. Caught 28 crappie, 4 catfish, and 1 bass and the crappie were eating the baits. Even lost a few baits to larger catfish . Had a nice trip
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Jim was a great help as a coach. Had a great morning out little breeze and some cloud cover held the heat off for a good part of the morning too. Bottom bouncer and spinner rig with 1/2 crawler.
Took my son and a buddy to Eufaula yesterday. WT 80s. Fished the lake 5 times in the past and only have caught small crappies, like 6-10". Only once during the spawn this year I did ok with 10-12 inchers. It's kinda discouraging to see
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My buddy and I hit our local lake this morning but decided to stop at lunchtime because of the heat. We got to ramp and there was a boat in front of us at ramp but my buddy snuck out of lake quickly before they came with truck. There was a
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Been off the water for about 10-12 days due to working on our grounds at hunting camp. Had today off due to some mechanical issues so thought I’d go fish a little while.
It took me about 3 hours to find the fish I was looking
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This morning before daylight, Biofisher and I hit the lake for Gary’s last trip until mid October. It was nearly a copy of yesterday’s trip. Better fish today and we landed 13 out of 16 crappie hookups. I did catch a yellow bass and a big Skipjack.
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My friend, Biofisher aka Gary Fomby, and I hit the crappie before daylight. We doubled with keepers on our first casts. It was game on until about 6:16 am when the fish decided that they had played with us enough. We were spot locked in 20
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Had an opportunity to do some research yesterday. Was testing plastic, hair, & feather jigs in 1/32 oz. Got an early start and caught a couple on different color jigs (my Ghost pattern & one other). Tried a new jig combo I just come
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I hadn't fished one of the local lakes in a few months, so I tried it again on Saturday. Got a late start (8:30 a.m.), but the fish weren't going anywhere. In paddling across a main arm of the lake, I noticed most of the fish on the depthfinder
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The past 3 Sundays have been very good for Dr Phillip, and friends. We have been launching the boat before daylight (5:30) and stopping at 9 am before it gets too hot. We have had 15, 17, 16 keepers the past 3 weeks.
Packed up the gear and headed out after work. Air temperature at a humid 84, water temp at 81! Launched about 5:15 and called it a night just short of 8. Wind was down and I figured I'd be in for a decent evening of catching. Nope!
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Let’s get real. There are only four types of reels you can use when you go crappie fishing. You can use a spincast, baitcasting, spinning, and fly fishing reel.
The reel deal is crappie anglers use multiple rods and need lots of fishing reels to put on their rods. Which reel they use depends on what technique and fishing rod they are using although there are some techniques that allow crappie anglers to use whatever reel they
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This one small lake I fish has shorelines with trees overhanging 2-3' of depth. Crappie, bass and sunfish hang out there in the middle of the day and can be caught the same way you would when flipping under docks which this lake has none.
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Dr Phillip and I took our friend Randy fishing with us again this morning and had a great day of catching quality crappie topped by a 14” TARP black and no keepers under 11”. Three short crappie, 7 yellow bass and one nice 18.25” Largemouth
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