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I've gotten in the habit of bleeding all of the fish that I keep (mostly walleye, perch and crappie) and they do indeed make much nicer looking fillets. I presume that they also taste cleaner and...

I moved seasonally to an area where Crappie is king and having come from an area and a state where there really were limited options for Crappie, I never had a very good idea how to target them. As...

Assuming that was the guy who was bragging about "close your eyes" because he was going to run full out in the no-wake zone, he belongs in prison for that bull****. They're lucky someone wasn't...

I've been looking for them and haven't seen one in a store yet. You can order online, but it's hard to find them for regular price that aren't on backorder. You can buy them NOW if you're willing...

Wow, that's a nice haul from shore. I used to live in the Shenango Valley, but I was young when the family moved away and never fished the reservoir, maybe I'll have to plan a trip there this...

My wife and I moved seasonally to South Carolina a couple of years ago. I'm retired and she's allowed to work remotely, so I do a LOT more Crappie fishing than I ever had previously. I love being...

I see them now. Looks like they're on dry land after drawdown in several of the cases and I just wasn't looking in the right spot. Thanks for the clarification.

I thought the same thing but presumed that maybe my computer wasn't showing a good detailed image or something.

Unfortunately, my camera doesn't take video and I was too dense to simply ask my brother (who was standing there watching it with me), to pull out his cell phone and take video. I'll find an...

I have fished a boat dock twice this week without getting a bite, the first time while fishing alone and today while fishing with two other guys. Saw an enormous pod of fish (Crappie) on my side...

Not an answer to your question, but I had the strangest thing happen to me the other day. I was fishing 10 pound braid on a spinning reel and I THINK I had 6 pound fluoro for a 5 foot section of...

Good luck, I would think your timing is pretty good for getting on the lake when the fish are pretty active and showing themselves off.

For what it's worth, I traded it for a Lew's Speed Spin reel and tossed in the difference ($20). Seems like a much better reel, although it's not terribly light in hand. Like I said, I'm really...

Nice. I like the look of the Slider grubs and use them occasionally, but only rarely use them on the Slider jigheads. Is that what you were doing? Do you need them for weedless presentations...

I have a LOT of UL spinning reels. In reality, I probably ought to sell 3 or 4 UL rod/reel combos because I'm simply getting more than I can use. Most of my combos are of pretty decent quality...

In your scenario, I'd be more inclined to think that it's the line diameter weight. It's not only what they see, but how the jig reacts and a jig reacts FAR differently on 4 or even 6 pound mono,...

Did you read it? He took it to a sporting goods store, where it weighed 3.73 pounds. The operator of the sporting goods store didn't do the paperwork for a state record, because he knew that it...

Apparently he's a cheat. What's worse, when he was caught, he didn't simply shut his mouth, he went on the attack, which I find to be deplorable. Bad enough to cheat to claim a state record, but...

Yep, I often go just to look around, but it's not that rare for me to go to a BPS, wonder around for an hour and buy nothing. I did have some BPS points on my credit card, so I "took advantage" of...

I have an older Terrova (2013 I think) and mine has never held Spot Lock very accurately. I know that one of these days I'm going to have to replace the trolling motor just from age, but it's one...

That's a remarkable story, and I'd dearly love to have a place like that to fish. I'd likely fish it with a fly rod if it was shallow, just to try something cool that wouldn't be easy to do on a lot...

Not calling you out and I'm sure there's some truth to what you post here, but catching hundreds of 20" Crappie per year on any lake isn't happening in my opinion. Purely out of curiosity, I just...

I just got Active Target this year and have only been using it a few weeks, so it's entirely possible, even probable, that I don't have it tuned in yet and that I'm not getting the best picture and...

Here's a photo. We only fished for 3 hours because neither of us needed or wanted any more fish to clean (I typically release most of them, but we did keep all of them yesterday). It was one of...

I can only guess that perhaps they're eating the fry? I did speak briefly to a DNR biologist about it and he hemmed and hawed a bit and admitted that they'd like to do more studies on the lake, but...

I've posted before about my ambitions and my trials. My wife and I moved seasonally (winter and spring with occasional trips back north to see kids/grandkids) to South Carolina. I've always been a...

I don't longline at all and surely some of the members here know FAR better than I would, but does the average underspin actually run 10-12 feet deep when pulled at 1MPH? I don't know how heavy...

I caught my first 3 pounder last year. In fairness, my scale only reads in 1/10 pound increments and the scale was going back and forth between 2.9 and 3.0, but bounced to 3.0 more than 2.9, so I...

I'm retired now and seasonally (December 1-April 30) I live practically on a nice lake, so I have the wonderful benefit of fishing for a couple of hours anytime I'd like or staying out for a longer...

Yep, I've been having some slip. I've been using "Crappie Cookie" jigheads because they're made locally and because they're one of the few 1/24 ounce heads I've been able to find in shops around...