Thread: Solo today. 11/19/18

It feels like it has been a month since I last fished, but it was the last day of October. Dr Phillip was in the woods trying to kill Bambi and Candi was buying groceries, a girl has to eat, so I did a solo trip this am.

I launched the Tracker around 9:30 give or take a few minutes. I eased out to the edge of the Wolftever creek channel and noticed a lot of bait in the channel near the edges and I was marking a lot of fish deep.

With the color of the water being a greenish sandy brown because of the recent hard rains, I chose a Pennyback colored Bobby Garland Slab Slayer in 1/16 oz Litewire hook painted Chartreuse, and never had to change colors or lures all day.

I caught 12 keeper Black crappie in about an hour or so and decided to check out some different structures. So I left biting fish to go look for fish. I do that a lot. Grin. I checked a deep off shore hump, a deep pond, a bluff, and two bamboo crappie hotels. Only two short fish came off the bluff. I marked fish on the other structures but no takers.

So I came back to the creek channel after a couple of hours and finished my limit and quit fishing at 1:45 pm. The fish are on ice and will be cleaned in the morning. Fish were 11:25-13.5”.

The technique that I used to coax these fish into biting was a very slow roll retrieve with an occasional “palsy” twitch. I cast my lure out and used the countdown method to determine what depth the fish would bite. Most came on a 17-20 second drop. Most fish that I was marking were at 20’ deep. I used a braided line and the fish were taking the lure deep in their throat.

I want to give a shout-out to B&M Sharpshooter rods, Slab Sauce, and Curtis Hobbs litewire hooks. Great tools to work with.

Good looking mess of Crappie! Beautiful day to be out.