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Cranking Lemon 5-2-24
launched at 7 and fished till 11:30 am. PICO Chrome Clown, Mud Bug, Killer Bee, and Fire Tiger were best colors. Chrome Clown even nailed around a 10lb flat head cat and ended up bending the hooks getting him released. Kept 23 crappie from 10” to 13.5” with all but 3 were males and the rest were females full of eggs not quite ready to spawn. Water temp was 70.5 so I have to think some are spawning. Speed was 1.8 to 2 mph if you went any slower you were slammed with small fish as i must have released 50-60 keeping my 3 rods busy as couple times I used only 2. Not alot of boats on Lemon so I also had main lake hot spots to my self. Lake was mirror calm till 11 am and slight breeze finally rippled the surface. Air temp when I loaded the boat was a hot sunny 84.
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Knats are getting really bad and I spray and use Bug Soother from Amazon. Seems to really work great for about 6 hrs. Not that expensive either in Amazon.
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Nice cooler of groceries. Good job
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Thanks for the report. Good looking crappies.
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Sweet! Never fished lemon but you and a few others on here convinced me to try cranks...it's been a blast but hadn't gotten them out much this year. Thanks for the photo inspiration! Hoping to stick a few tomorrow at Monroe. Jigging plastic has been good so far this year. Cheers!
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Tried pulling some Pico's yesterday on the St. Joe at Mishawaka. No success, but got one about 12" on a jig in the shallows. She was full of eggs. Water temps were in the 67-68 range.
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Best way to tell you at what depth to run the crankbaits, is check your electronics and where your seeing fish at the depth, run the cranks. With Lemon, I like running them about a foot or 2 above the bottom at this time of the year. I will stagger one at a medium depth of where I am seeing fish depth on electronics.
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One of the friends of the wife sent me this pic of a Timber Ratttler in driveway of house at Lake Lemon. For his size, he is a big boy for Indiana size Timber Rattle Snakes.
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/blob...0-d4f9e5102738
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:Rofl WOW that's a big one for sure! :Rofl Sorry pic didn't post
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Tea Tree Oil works on Knats too. Chrome Clown is a magnet for just about everything.