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My 3 kids and I went out Saturday night and fished under lights anchored up on the river channel. We caught approximately 90 crappie from 9"-14" and about 30 more short fish using minnows. We brought...

What I call Spring for Logan Martin is long gone..... February and March is Spring to those fish.

Here are a couple of Logan Martin fish I caught back in the spring.161502

One other thing I have noticed about Weiss thru the years. The black Crappie will spawn earlier than the White Crappie. The Black Crappie Spawn typically starts the 1st or 2nd week of April and the...

Despite what most people will tell you, water temp is only a small portion of the recipe for the crappie spawn. Waer clarity, water level stability, and length of the days are all a big part of...

I used to hold the head like picture #2 until I had 1 slip and the hook burried up in my finger. I now hold it like Picture #2 except I hold the hook. It is a lot sfer in my opinion.

After reading all the posts on this topic I feel the need to make some comments.
On the subject of raising out of state liscense fees: This would be a big hit to the local economy.
Lowering the...

Out I-20 toward Atlanta.

Years ago before the vegetation started in the lake you very rarely caught a black crappie, unless you were fishing in Town Creek or South Sauty. White Crappie thrive in a little murky to slightly...

The good thing about fshing in the fall on the Coosa River chain of lakes is, depending on the timing of your trip, you can catch fish using just about any technique you want to. Finding the baitfish...

I have found that if you put a concrete block on the ground and stick the bamboo in the open cells and fan them out to your liking sticking up and then pour some sakrete in around the stalks. What...

I usually troll with my rod tips down in the water a few inches to keep the trash from running down the line.

I have borrowed one a few times from a friend and used it to look at some structure/cover. It is a toy that has limited applications for catching fish. It is an exspenive toy and it it just that, "a...

I use 6 lb. clear easy cast in super clear water, 6 lb. Mr. Crappie hi-vis, or 6 lb. Cabela's hi-vis most of the time. I have noticed thru the years that the weight of the 6 lb. line allows the shot...

The last I heard, there were no charges brought up on either brother. One has offered to buy the other out, but I have not heard how that has gone.

I grew up fishing Guntersville, Weiss, Neely Henry, and Logan Martin the most. I fished competively for 21 years all over the country and in my opinion these are probably the best all around lakes...

Here are a couple of web sites

Driftmaster-Black River Tools

This one has a lot of different types of rod holders.

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I think it was a very fast spawn and probably not a very good one. If every one remembers it the way I do, we went from the lake being ice water to bath water in about a 10-14 day period. Usually...

I'm not watching anyone catch "Trash Fish" either. Maybe on TV if I'm not on the lake somewhere when it is aired.

Do any of you guys out there have reports from Neely Henry lately?

I don't know exactly how the laws read, but a game officer told me a couple of years ago, that if a jet ski is close enough to you for you to read his registration #'s he is too close, write it down...

Spider rigging is a good way to catch crappie during the hot and cold months. As stated above river or big creek ledges are a good place to look, as well as using the thermocline as a depth control...

I understand your philosophy totally. I don't fish tourneys anymore. I still have some of the old habits that were developed thru the years. My philosophy now is to catch as many big fish as I can...

You develope a feel for each lake and each day over the years for the base colors. I am constantly changes colors if I am not catching bigger fish to see if I can find that magic color that will...

Man, you guys are fishing with a lot less colors than me. I carry over 400 different color combos in my boat when I am Crappie fishing. I have found that every color has a time and place. I have...

Here are a few pictures from last week at Guntersville.

Has anyone else noticed that it appears that some of the crappie look as though they are cross breeding? Some of the fish have random spots but only have 6 dorsal spines and some have 7 or 8 dorsal...

I'm OK, after the people at the hospital got thru laughing and they figured out how to get the hooks seperated so they could push them thru and then remove them life was good. The hooks were in my...

My 12 year old son had the biggest catch of a week long Spring Break fishing trip. A 230 lb. "BIG MOUTH". It took a trip to the hospital to get 2 hooks of a #2 treble buried to the shank out of my...