Thread: Ole Dead

Originally Posted by Ketchn

I ketched some off the bank last week ….but I turned em lose ….does that count ?

Counts X2....... Nice'un.....

Originally Posted by LittleStick

Brother, I haven’t been able to wet a line in a looong time. Don’t know any good dead of summer spots close by and I haven’t had the time to make longer trips. I’m hoping things will slow down in the next week or two and I can start beating these banks again. Real nice catches you got there.

the bank bite is on right now …..where ever you got em before in the fall , they are likely there now

Well my boat is high and dry until we get about 5 feet more water in the lake as they are making repairs to the spillway so no new pics from me until then. However here are a few from the past.

Skip

With my neighbor


With my wife

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Well my boat is high and dry until we get about 5 feet more water in the lake as they are making repairs to the spillway so no new pics from me until then. However here are a few from the past.

Skip

With my neighbor


With my wife

OOOHHHH YEAH...... Very Nice Skip..... I'll bet those were some fun trips......

Nice Skip. Hopefully you can get your boat out soon.

Thanks guys! SK I have to say that the number of great trips on this lake is huge, really! I started fishing Toledo Bend about the time hit pend in the lake 60's. Of course that was mostly bass, but we didn't let bass keep us from some great crappie fishing. Use to have a fall hole that we averaged 60-70 per hour fishing (with self and one more person) them little Roadrunners long lining all the way back in 1979. I came up with long lining for my self by accident really, I was fishing a well know hole here that is a large flat known as Community Hole, lol! Anyway it was windy and I just got frustrated and took out a Roadrunner and started drifting and not expecting anything at this point, but then as Ketchn would say Kaboom, a big black crappie, then another and another until I got excited, lol! So I started thinking this is great stuff, but then I knew this wind is not always going to do this and maybe not even the right direction, but then it hit me, I could just use my troll motor to pull the jig along slow and see what happens. That was my first thought of what we now call long lining, I just called it trolling back then. You should have seen the faces of some of my clients when I was guiding back then and I would tell them we were going to troll for crappie, lol!

So thats how long I have been long lining!

Skip

Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Thanks guys! SK I have to say that the number of great trips on this lake is huge, really! I started fishing Toledo Bend about the time hit pend in the lake 60's. Of course that was mostly bass, but we didn't let bass keep us from some great crappie fishing. Use to have a fall hole that we averaged 60-70 per hour fishing (with self and one more person) them little Roadrunners long lining all the way back in 1979. I came up with long lining for my self by accident really, I was fishing a well know hole here that is a large flat known as Community Hole, lol! Anyway it was windy and I just got frustrated and took out a Roadrunner and started drifting and not expecting anything at this point, but then as Ketchn would say Kaboom, a big black crappie, then another and another until I got excited, lol! So I started thinking this is great stuff, but then I knew this wind is not always going to do this and maybe not even the right direction, but then it hit me, I could just use my troll motor to pull the jig along slow and see what happens. That was my first thought of what we now call long lining, I just called it trolling back then. You should have seen the faces of some of my clients when I was guiding back then and I would tell them we were going to troll for crappie, lol!

So thats how long I have been long lining!

Skip

That's cool..... Long lining is fun I just don't do much of it..... While fishn in the summer I always think about it to just have a little wind when it's hot.....

Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures

That's cool..... Long lining is fun I just don't do much of it..... While fishn in the summer I always think about it to just have a little wind when it's hot.....

Let me tell you one other little thing about my old spot. The length of my run back and forth at that spot was very short, maybe 25 yards long so really small area over a fairly shallow ridge like structure that had Hydrilla all over it and the water on each size was super deep and the top of my ridge was like 14' deep. It was the very best fishing spot I even used no matter what kind of fish!

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