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First time out this year, too many obstacles during past weekends has prevented me to wet a line... today I took my new Freedom Hawk 12 Stand up kayak for her maiden voyage.... and I am very pleased...

I bet they have some real big slabs up in heaven... and Billy is catching a mess of them about now... God bless him and his family

Gillbuster

I like to fish UL tackle also, but over the last several years I have gone to UL fly rod 9' 2-3-4 wt fly rod and sinking line and mini buggers or small muddler minnow... get the fly down deep 6-8...

Reflecting over the past 15 years my best fish memories are with my most loyal fishing pal,... my Golden Retriever, Scarlet..... here is a write up I did....some of you may identify with a loss of...

It always amazed me how these famous TV deer hunters today on "Versus & North American Whitetail" travel and can go out week after week and get these huge trophy class deer in a new state or area...

I apologize for my rant...I have Deer hunted all over this country for 30 + years (15 States, military service) Granted, yes, these deer may have come from private farms, and IL does have a great...

Very nice Bucks, but I bet they all were harvested from private High $$ deer farms, these deer are well manged by hired biologists and watched year round to know exactly their home range is so, they...

With the size of those Brama Bluegills, lucky they didn't snap the 4wt... if they grew to 5 pounds.... no one would go swimming:)...nice pictures. is the first picture, a copper head???

I use floating line or sink tip fly line when I want to go deeper.... 6-8 lbs tippet most of the time.... to make it sink more slowly I use 10-12 lbs tippet... I call it a dummy fly because any dummy...

I was using mostly goldies, and a new family of goldie flies, "black gold, blue gold, pink gold" I will post some pictures of the flies later

Tenn Tom,
Where do you fish at? I fished for many years around the West Point Area of the Tenn Tom, Also fished Davis lake and several lakes along the Natchez Trace. Have some friends from Cedar...

For Crappies and Bluegills there isn't a bag limit...I am not sure how the Wild-life biologists monitor the ponds and how often, but the majority of them are very good fishing....for panfish, not...

The majority of ponds in Mass, we fish in are public (in the thousands), some ponds are private, but I don't fish them... for example from the Cape Cod Canal to Provincetown there over 900 ponds or...

Spent the weekend fly fishing several ponds in the local area... Crappie must be in full spawning mode here in Massachusettts... beautiful colors and good size from 11"-15" specimens...plus a picture...

This is why the crappie get big in some of the ponds... if the crappie can live long enough to get away from these toothy critters, they get to be good size, the small Crappie are pickerel's LUNCH!!!...

See if this helps... trying a new fly that Dick Empie gave me to try called "Black Gold"

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Don't stick your fingers in these guy's mouth... will be miss some fingers!!!! ....3 to 4+ pounds of some of the meanest, ill-mannnered, teeth slashing and pole bending action one can handle......

With the numerous ponds and small lakes in Massachusetts, Float tubing is one of the best ways to get in a bed of spawning bluegills and crappie. Fly fished this past weekend wiht my good friend...

I am a Wally Marshall fan..like his 7 to 9' spin cast rod with zebco 11 reels... caught thousands of fish on this combo

very very nice...good way to bring up your boy, chip off the ol'block

Those are some nice shellcrackers

That one nice BG!!!

Let us know how the fishing results are...excellent video and efforts

Here is the fly that catches everything, especially crappie, I tie these Goldies up witha #8 hook and Watch out!!!

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Had the pleasure of fishing with Tyler today & he took the Crappie to school today on the lessons of the deadly semi-seal leech fly. He was practically catching a crappie on every cast for 1/2 hour...

Went out last weekend and tried out some new jigs I made... worked great

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Webster lake has huge crappie

CJ,
Could you post the tournament again next time you have it. I would love to attend and get together with other Crappie fisherman...I bet you all had a blast

She was hung up on the crappie's lip

Here is some pictures of some healthy 17-17.5" Massachusetts Crappie taken on a yellow streamer by my fly fishing buddy, Alec. Over the course of the camping weekend 12 crappie of this size were...