Y'all are all over them. I hope to go this weekend and find some
Mr S was willing to go fishing with me this morning. We put in 3 solid hours of offshore and dock shooting and with very good success. We caught in the neighborhood of 45-50 crappie and 2 catfish. About 20 of the crappie were keeper size and I intended to keep a limit to restock, but we miss counted and I had 16 in the livewell when I got home, so Lebron, I got one of your fish. Lolol
I think it was about 20 years ago that I began to take people out and show them how to catch crappies under the docks by shooting a jig way back under a dock where the water was good and dark. Richard Simms or Dr Mark Pollard might remember the year that I took them out and showed this technique. They were one of the early ones that I can remember. At one point in time, I had taken nearly 80 different men and women out and taught them the how to of dock shooting.
I said all of that to say this. I just about quit dock shooting because so many people were doing it that I needed to develop another technique to catch fish. A technique that very few do and that is fishing offshore with jigs. I started thinking yesterday that maybe I should go back to the lures and techniques that I used to do and see what happens. This is what happened today.
I found some old crystal Shad 1.5” Panfish Assassins that I had 1/32 oz jigs glued on and using my 4 lb test line (only line I use) and we proceeded to fish. We found a dock in 15-16 feet of water that no one had fished this morning and stayed with them well over an hour and a half until the fish biting slowed down. We knew that no one had fished the dock because of the spider webs that we broke through with our lines. I think that we caught well over 30-40 fish under this dock. Lots of shorts here but also the biggest keepers of the day as well.
Water flow was 13,600 cfs and surface temp was 81.7 when I first looked about 8 am. Virtually no wind but a very soft gentle North breeze got up before we quit fishing. Thanks for going with me Mr S.
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Y'all are all over them. I hope to go this weekend and find some
The love for fishing is one of the best gifts you can pass alongdrumking thanked you for this post
nice report!
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Col 3:1drumking thanked you for this post
Drumking, it was good seeing you today. We also had a good day on the water. We caught several
shorts and was able to boat 32 keepers between 3 of us.
Of course we were using minnows. Early in the day they were 12-16ft, but after 10 or so they were 20-30 ft.
I saw water temps from start around 81.5 and a little past noon of 84.7.
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Wow, what a great hot, hot, hot & miserable day catch, many congrats!
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Good catch, dock shooting sounds like a great technique, just do not get enough time to do it up here. Our lakes are down 15ft now and falling fast.
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