Reply With QuoteI would think the same thing as I have experienced it often. Peck, peck, peck goes the Bluegill and setting the hook resulted in a lost minnow that he had already stolen. Glad your story turned out differently.
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Peck Peck Peck ....
thats the bite .....like a little bitty one learning to knock on the door when they can barely walk .
and I told myself no ketchn thats just them pesky bream .....
and it frustrated me so i began setting the hook on the little bitty peck peck peck bites ...AND ....
MAN was they some dandy black crappie yawl
not a bream in the bunch !
i lit them lips on FIRE at lunch break
these fish were deep under a big bait ball up on the surface
really close to the bottom
in 16 to 18 foot of water
small fork tail in chart on my little short lews speed stick
good times it was
noon to one ...managed 17 keepers
let em all go ....
and KABOOM is the word yawl
sum kawl me tha outlaw ketchn whales
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I would think the same thing as I have experienced it often. Peck, peck, peck goes the Bluegill and setting the hook resulted in a lost minnow that he had already stolen. Glad your story turned out differently.
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That fish with the scar was right at 16 inches long my friend , probably didn't make 2 due to it's obvious age and the summer typical not as fat as fall and spring ritual , none the less I did not try to swing it up , I gently lifted that one for sure .Originally Posted by cellis
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Same thing at my lake last weekend.
I was really surprised when I started setting the hook on good fish!
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Had a similar experience one Spring down in Tenn at Watts Bar Lake. Catching good fish from under a bridge, around the pillars. Then the bite kinda petered out close to the pillars and we let the boat drift away and cast back to the open water. Several times our Road Runners would come back to the boat with 2 or 3 Shad following along. I kept getting this "vibration" feel in my rod on several retrieves, that kinda felt like what it would feel like if you were dragging your jig down a sidewalk. At first I thought maybe it was the Shad bumping into it as they swam with it, then thought maybe it was dink Bluegills nipping at the tail feathers of the Road Runners. I got kinda "aggravated" about it and decided to make the Shad or Bluegill pay for getting in my way, and when I set the hook my rod bent like I'd just set the hook into the bridge pillar. As it turned out, that was Crappie doing all that "nipping" and I'd probably missed out on catching half a dozen good fish by not setting the hook on them earlier.
I've never had Crappie bite like that since, but you can bet your best pair of cowboy boots that if it does happen again ... they gettin' a hook set that'll make my line "twang" like a guitar string !!
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I encounter the peck peck bite more often than I like for sure in the summer months . The good news is I often employ the ole I dont care if it bites hard or not, i am gunna SET the hook !
Does it result in ketchn bream , yep sometimes , but quite often some of the teenest tiniest pecks are real big ole slabs
that spot has alot of deep summer bream so i was hesitant at first because of my i want crappie focus , silly me right
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