A tale of 4 baits

[Ketchn]

First and foremost i have not slowed down on ketchn the crappie . I really enjoy it as you might have noticed . I have slowed up a bit on my posts some but not to worry i am still slinging the crappie .
I went to a spot i like the other day and the fish were highly cooperative to say the least . It was a bit crowded at stop one with multiple people dropping minnows . One came and dropped a jig as well about an hour after i got there .
I moved on to my secondary location due to the crowd and my want to have a little more room .
So here in lies the conditions of said outing ....
Big storm passes thru with a good rain , it quit 30 minutes before i hit spot 1 , the wind was pretty calm and slightly easterly . Water clarity was pretty good and the fish were slow at first and the bite was super duper light . The bite got to be more and more frequent as time passed and within the hour i was really slinging some crappie . I started in around 12 fow and went to 14 fow and then all the way back to about 7 fow . The fish all bit in similar fashion no matter the depth . The line would lay up or there would be ever so slight resistance when i tried to move my jig lightly .
I moved to spot 2 and the conditions changed rather sharply with a very strong south wind and the upper end of that lake was quite a bit cloudy and slightly muddy .
I started where i thought they would be at spot 2 and after 2 really small fish I almost said oh well 15 minutes into that stop . They were in around 14 fow and on my way to the truck i thought well let me hit around 10 fow pretty serious just to make sure .
The fish in 10 fow were on like you know what once i figured out they wanted it just above the debris on the bottom and drug really slowly past them . They bit real hard and i left them biting .
the 4 baits i pitched are pictured below and i am not sure what exactly caused the bite to be so hard when it started so light. i only hit that lake about 2 hours before work .
In the end i am not sure exactly what factors drove the significant change in the fishes attitude but to be sure from arrival to departure was a totally different ball game .
Was fun and i did give a bunch to the minnow guys and a large bass and at stop 2 i was alone and set them all free .
every 25 to 30 fish i changed colors due to plastic damage and tied on the pepto bismal to finish the outing as i only had a few plastics in my pocket and the one handtie .
nothing much over 12 inches and nothing much under 10 , managed to not even lose one jig as well ,how nice is that i ask ya .
such is crappie ketchn i suppose but to be sure it was a different game from one end of the lake to other on how they took a bait , numbers of fish were basically the same .
and yes KABOOM is still the word and i only did my thumb photo after the first stop . by the second stop it wasn't looking so good

[skiptomylu]

Man that all Hot Pink hand tie has give me a lot of fun at times. My best day with it was using a 1/8 Oz jig around some bridge pilings just playing pitch swing, they hammered it!

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[ET Fish]

That’s definitely a bait smorgasbord!

[ET Fish]

That’s definitely a bait smorgasbord!

[Ketchn]

That’s definitely a bait smorgasbord!

i was in the pink white , pink ,red white and white mode that day
am going with various charts next visit or maybe oranges as i bet the water gets more muddy
and probably some more with more contrast

[Jamesdean]

It don't seem what the Ketchn throws, he seems to always catch fish... Thanks again for the ride on ketches fishing adventures...

[Ketchn]

It don't seem what the Ketchn throws, he seems to always catch fish... Thanks again for the ride on ketches fishing adventures...

Sometimes I get lucky that way , sometimes not

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Great looking jigs, congratulations

[addictsteel]

Nice catches! Crazy how much the fish's mood can change from hour to hour, even minute to minute or spot to spot.

[Ketchn]

Nice catches! Crazy how much the fish's mood can change from hour to hour, even minute to minute or spot to spot.

This particular outing made me wonder what play all the contributing factors had in these 2 quite different scenarios .
Often times I leave the water and try to remember the combination to the lock .
Sometimes its so i WON'T do that again and other times its so i CAN do that again