Friday night Blackshear Report
Got there at 7 pm and fished the docks with trees inbetween going down the creek towards the main lake on your right...past Smoake bridge. Caught 10 nice ones before it even got dark. Some of the docks and some on trees. Fished the slough on the right going towards the main lake once the lights came on and the sun went down. Had my Friday limit of 30 by 11pm... :D .....dropped those off at the truck back at the ramp and went back out at 12. Caught some shiners at the landing with the cast net. Oh...during the daylight hours the crappie would only hit the black and chartreuse slider. Once the lights came on....they wouldn't touch anything but the Acid Rain kalins curly tail. Man they love that color. It was every cast pretty much. Very little time when they weren't biting.
Anyhow....since they were hitting so well....this time around I decided to keep only the largest and take my time. Well by 5 am I had a 30 fish limit of nice crappie. Let go about 40. Now for my excitement for the night. They were three and this is how they be. One of the docks in the slough has a big round pvc pipe that lays on top of the water under the light. Don't know what this is for. Crappie can be caught in it and pulled over it. I threw a shiner in there with a cork. After I catch a few nice crappie, it goes under again and this time its got weight on the other end. I frantically try to pull up anchor with one hand and holding the rod with the other, so I could get to the hoop to get to the fish. I thought it was a big hybrid or striper, until it jumped. It was about a four to five pound largemouth. He broke the line, and left me wanting....oh well.
I toss another one back in there because I haven't learned my lesson. Five minutes later the cork goes under then comes back up. I leave it for a few...then real in. There is weight. I pull up anchor and go over and proceed to land about a three foot gar. Pretty cool. Had him hooked perfectly. He didn't know he was hooked and was sitting there waiting for more shiners. Well since I had to paddle in there and cause all that noise, I went to another dock back in the creek. First couple of casts...couple crappie. Third cast...wham! Felt like a brick hit the lure. Then it bulldogs out into the cove. I knew it was a flathead after about five seconds. Sure enough ten minutes later I get a 20 pound flathead in the canoe. :) He hit that Acid Rain curly tail. He's going to taste goooooood. What a fight though. Not fast but really strong. I kind of cheated though. It was an ultralight rod....but 10 and 2 power pro...hehe. No worries about breaking the line, but the fight is still there because the small rod.
So......the night fishing is awesome right now on Blackshear. The crappie are on the shallow docks and there were quite a few larger ones this time around as many of the females have already dropped their baggage off and returned to feeding. If you didn't have the right color you wouldn't know they were there though. I tried 20 other colors of plastics....and the only thing that caught a few, was a red back/green belly baby shad assassin. They really weren't even interested in shiners....I caught about five on them. I guess its just the way that color looks under the lights. They wouldn't touch it during the day...black and treuse only. Crazy crappie. Well I'm hitting the hay for awhile, and then cleaning all those fish!