Thread: Solo again 11/09/20

All my fishing buddies are trying to kill Bambi and leaving me alone with the crappie. The crappie are glad that Cuonthelake is busy painting the inside of her house or we would be putting a hurting on them. I’m not doing too badly by myself.

Candi, you are going to waste your vacation working on that house. Take 5 and let’s go fishing. I promise to take it easy on you and won’t front end you again.

I was out from about 9:30 until 1 pm. I fished brush in a bay but only caught short fish and quit quickly. Caught one keeper under a dock in there before going to the river and catching 4 quality keepers in that current. 55,000 FPS. I looked at another spot but no takers there and ended up on a roadbed and landed 5 more nice keepers. I was 5 fish short of a 15 limit. I added a yellow bass to the creel.

Bass Assassin Pro Tiny 2” Shads in Albino and Blue Ice. Albino was hotter today but Blue Ice was hotter yesterday. Go figure? I only took one pic. My bad but you have seen my ugly face enough. Grin. Don’t shout me down cause I’m preaching real good.

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Originally Posted by drumking

Yes and yes. I need some pointers. Lolol. You can paint all winter when the weather is bad. I have to fish while the bite is going on. You know that I could catch more fish if I just did the same old thing all the time, but I’m constantly pushing the envelope by trying to figure out how to catch crappie under difficult weather and water conditions.

I am working on presentation techniques that aren’t the “normal” thing to do. This is why I only catch 5-10 keepers on a 3-4 hour trip. I fish without Livescope. I will never buy a Livescope. I’m not knocking guys who do and enjoy watching the screen on their graphs when presenting the lure instead of watching the line to detect the subtle bite that you get more times than not with a crappie. I know that people want to catch fish when they go. If using TV monitor to zero in on the fish, and see their lure drop to the depth the fish are in and see the bite on the graph instead of seeing the line bite, then go for it guys. That isn’t my cup of tea.

Candi, one of our trolling friends wanted to teach me planer board fishing and I appreciate the fact that he is a master at trolling, but I had rather kiss my sister than to troll. It is a very effective technique at certain times of the year, but I don’t want my boat hooking the fish and me just reeling it in. He said that he can’t troll when it is very windy which is common around here.

The thrill of fishing and why I do what I do is to present an artificial lure into the fish’s environment, and present it in such a way that he will bite the lure. This is where the thrill is, in detecting the bite. The size of the fish is secondary to me. I love catching 8” crappie because I have already had my initial thrill. Grin. And sometimes, you can hook and land a 28.66 pound Flathead catfish on 4 lb test line with a friend that you have taught to fish and who beats me on a regular basis when she isn’t painting. Lolol.

NICE. Going to the exact same 3 or 4 spots and catching fish doing the exact same thing, day in and day out gets boring. I like to find a different puzzle to figure out from time to time.

...although I'm nowhere near as good at it, and usually end up back at the same 3 or 4 spots ...but 3 of those spots were found looking for a different puzzle