Texas, where everything is bigger...... Do we just not want to share?
Post up some pics of you're recent catches, write up that you caught some or just post up that you went and enjoyed it.....
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Texas, where everything is bigger...... Do we just not want to share?
Post up some pics of you're recent catches, write up that you caught some or just post up that you went and enjoyed it.....
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What's up Texas...... REALLY.....
Nice looking rigQuote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
Thanks..... It wasn't designed for crappie fishn but or works ok.....Quote:
Originally Posted by DockShootinJack
That cooler has seen a many a crappie! Bam!
Brother, I haven’t been able to wet a line in a looong time. Don’t know any good dead of summer spots close by and I haven’t had the time to make longer trips. I’m hoping things will slow down in the next week or two and I can start beating these banks again. Real nice catches you got there.
WTG SK, WTG!!!!!
I only ketch on days that end it Y ….
heat cold sun rain sleet or snow ….
you never know when I might go ….
KABOOM is the word my friend :highfive
Nice mess of fish!
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I ketched some off the bank last week ….but I turned em lose ….does that count ? :highfive
Keep a few to eat. Throw the rest back. That's how to old timers did it
Counts X2....... Nice'un.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
the bank bite is on right now …..where ever you got em before in the fall , they are likely there nowQuote:
Originally Posted by LittleStick
Well my boat is high and dry until we get about 5 feet more water in the lake as they are making repairs to the spillway so no new pics from me until then. However here are a few from the past.
Skip
With my neighbor
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With my wife
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OOOHHHH YEAH...... Very Nice Skip..... I'll bet those were some fun trips......Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
Nice Skip. Hopefully you can get your boat out soon.
Thanks guys! SK I have to say that the number of great trips on this lake is huge, really! I started fishing Toledo Bend about the time hit pend in the lake 60's. Of course that was mostly bass, but we didn't let bass keep us from some great crappie fishing. Use to have a fall hole that we averaged 60-70 per hour fishing (with self and one more person) them little Roadrunners long lining all the way back in 1979. I came up with long lining for my self by accident really, I was fishing a well know hole here that is a large flat known as Community Hole, lol! Anyway it was windy and I just got frustrated and took out a Roadrunner and started drifting and not expecting anything at this point, but then as Ketchn would say Kaboom, a big black crappie, then another and another until I got excited, lol! So I started thinking this is great stuff, but then I knew this wind is not always going to do this and maybe not even the right direction, but then it hit me, I could just use my troll motor to pull the jig along slow and see what happens. That was my first thought of what we now call long lining, I just called it trolling back then. You should have seen the faces of some of my clients when I was guiding back then and I would tell them we were going to troll for crappie, lol!
So thats how long I have been long lining!
Skip
That's cool..... Long lining is fun I just don't do much of it..... While fishn in the summer I always think about it to just have a little wind when it's hot.....Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
Let me tell you one other little thing about my old spot. The length of my run back and forth at that spot was very short, maybe 25 yards long so really small area over a fairly shallow ridge like structure that had Hydrilla all over it and the water on each size was super deep and the top of my ridge was like 14' deep. It was the very best fishing spot I even used no matter what kind of fish!Quote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
Skip
my bank fish are being a little uncooperative lately . I haven't been out as much though and will likely find them this next week if I find time to go looking
My best place ever was so close to the bank it was crazy, but I am not sure they let anyone get at that area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Skip
it got lots better in the stupid cold weather yesterday off the bank …..just saying rotfl
and yes I still let all 53 of them big fat crappie go :Rofl
You know they got there feed bag on when they get that yella tone to'um......
53? I thought it was colder than that:Roflrotfl
Nice catchn......
Did your live scope do it......:Rofl
Will tell y'all about the best ever crappie hole since it may never be any good again unless that Hydrilla get back in full go. When they built this lake they built a cofferdam to hold the water back while they built the generator and spillway area. Well right in front the generators was narrow and opened up just a short ways from them and then a rope all the way across to keep boats out of the area. That cofferdam when in a semi circle from one side to the other where that rope went across. Now when the lake is full the top of that cofferdam was like 14' deep. However on the generator side it dropped off to 90' deep and on the other size next to the rock portion of the dam still dropped off to like 35' not so far from the rock. I just fished the one side back and forth pulling them little 1/32 Oz Roadrunners and killing the crappie. They are really good size too, lol! Literally I could take my wife (new to fishing) and the two of us would average 60 to 70 per hour!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
I bet the length of my run was no more than 50 to 70 feet long as when the cofferdam dropped off to 20', I turned around and went back.
Oh and no need to look now as the Hydrilla is void there and our wonderful weed has been hurt a lot the last 3 springs with floods and if the sun doesn't get down there it doesn't grow.
Breaks my heart too!
Skip
That is the way I feel about ALL Hydrilla gone from Lake Austin after the introduction of grass carp so the wealthy dock owners are no longer inconvenienced.
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Well at least ours keep trying to grow back so I have hope when it stops the crazy flooding maybe it will all get back like it should be. We use to have it to the top in 20' of water in the summers.Quote:
Originally Posted by dhaire
This was a strictly structure lake when it was new so when the grass came in we had to change out style, but it just got better.
Skip
Yes definitely counts pm me if you get the chance brotherQuote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
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water temps are in the 50 range yawl . some of the winter locations are doing quite well .
I missed a trip to a "legendary" location Saturday to go play with the deer instead .
but you might want to start looking in them winter dives
I believe I seant you on a lake Fri afternoon. I was in a ranger CC. You were a running with a guy in a job boat.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
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I don't recall seeing ya but yes I was out there....Quote:
Originally Posted by 220cst
Next time I will come over and shake your hand. It will be a pleasure. I grew up fishing lake Houston [emoji16]. Camp Lilly now I'm dating myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
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Yes sir..... Please do.....Quote:
Originally Posted by 220cst