Deep Crappie

[Jerry Blake]

Found it:

Hush Puppies

1 1/2-cup Self Rising Flour

1 1/2-cup Self Rising White Cornmeal mix

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 can Cream Corn NOTE: MAKE SURE YOUR CREAM CORN IS "CREAMED" REAL WELL BECAUSE ANY WHOLE CORN KERNELS MAY POP AND SPLATTER HOT GREASE ON YOU!!!!

1 Onion - chopped

2 tablespoons Oil

Mix together and add milk until the batter is about the consistency of pancake batter.

Drop by heaping teaspoons into 365-degree oil and fry until dark brown on both sides.

Optional Variations:

Add chopped jalapeños and/or chopped bell peppers and/or minced garlic

[anchorpuller]

This is a great thread! Jerry, as usual, looks like you put on yer crappie thinking cap and made the ambush!

JCJ, great suggestions too! I've never seen the chartreuse hooks. Do you paint them or is this something I just haven't laid my eyes on in the fishing dept? I want to try your suggestions....as soon as Santa Claus comes!

Jerry, you just KNOW I'm eating my heart out here wishin' *I* was fishin'. Then you have to go and make it even worse talking about fresh hushpuppies and fish filets! Danged if you don't have a way to motivate even the shiest of winter fisherfolks. :D

Thanks you guys for the sharing of information, as usual, I really appreciate and enjoy it.

[Jumping Cholla Jigs]

anchorpuller... Eagle Claw sells a pack of hooks with 4 different colors of powder coated hooks in it and thats what I first tried on a lark just to see if they worked any better then red hooks. They DO but the other colors in the pack have not caught a fish so we started just powder coating our own hooks. We now have settled on #4 or 6 black circle hooks. Heat them with a small tourch and dip in the powder in such a way as to not color the point, barb or eye and you are ready to fish...

[Darryl Morris]

Aarg! I'll be back soon. Thanks for the phone call. I know you weren't rubbing it in, just sharing, lol.

[DENNIS BOWERS]

Jerry, Good bunch of Fish!! Crappie here are the same-deep. We too have nice weather,kind of makes ya wonder why there so deep. Surface temp. here is 50*.

[speck chaser]

crappie here in east tn have been deep all fall this is quiet unsuall
shad haven't came up either may be why crappie are so deep just a thought

[Jerry Blake]

crappie here in east tn have been deep all fall this is quiet unsuall
shad haven't came up either may be why crappie are so deep just a thought

Yea, I think the shad have stayed deep here too. We've not seen hardly any whites, stripers, hybrids or black bass surface feeding this year, which is very unusual and the shad are showing up real deep on our graphs. The crappie gotta go where the food is if they are going to beef up for the spawn.

Ole Carlos - "Hushpuppy Man" - on the right - was pretty funny yesterday. He's been fishing Greeson since they filled it up over 50-years ago and about every second or third fish he'd shake his head and say something like, "I ain't never seen such - crappie so deep!"

[titleman]

Jerry,
Thanks for the receipe.
Somehow I missed it on the Crappie camp thread, so you made my day!!
In fact, now you don't have to get me a Christmas present!!

Titleman