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    Default A pleasant evening trip, 8-19


    Today's weather was very nice for mid-August; upper 70's, low humidity, partly cloudy with a variable breeze. So nice in fact that I felt obligated to finish it off with a fishing trip. I headed up to the "new pond" again to see what I could find. What I found was a pretty stiff breeze directly out of the north, right down the lake making my trip a bit more difficult than I'd hoped. Launched just after 5, with water temp at 76. I rowed up the lake against the wind without trolling until I got near the area I wanted to both fish and map. I clipped on a Southern Pro bleeding shad minnow tube, a SP crappie shad in black and silver and the silver/black/chartreuse Slabilicious I used the other day. Only took a few minutes to land the first crappie, had 3 in the boat in the first 8-10 minutes, all about 8-9" and very skinny. I kept moving along and soon hooked a double, this nice 12" crappie and the LMB, perhaps an inch longer, maybe 1 1/2 lbs. or so.

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    I pretty much kept these baits on all night as they were on heavier jig heads and I was mainly fishing the deeper waters of the basin, out away from the edges. I had lots of takers there, all crappie. Here are a couple more nice ones.

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    Walt and Rich, you'll be pleased to know that I FINALLY had some good action drifting with the wind over the basin! Had a spell where the wind picked up pretty good for a while and since I was pretty far up the lake, decided to let it push me back down and did pretty well for once with your favorite technique. Picked up 6-7 fish over that drift, probably 20-25 minutes worth of it, all crappie.
    Oddly, it wasn't until the sun got buried behind the clouds and the hill that the bluegill decided to turn on; hadn't hooked one all evening then suddenly, every fish was a bluegill. I don't think I hooked another crappie once that happened but hey, they are all fun to catch.
    Totals tonight would be about 15-16 crappie, the one bass, and probably half a dozen bluegill.

    I had to stop on the way home and snap a picture of the sunset over the hill, too.
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    Awesome report! You did GOOD! The quality of the crappie you are getting is much better than what we're seeing. Congrats!
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    Outstanding report and great Crappie. Keep up the good times. Glad to see you tried our way of drifting deeper water and hope you continue trying it.

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    Good job and beautiful pictures as usual. Thanks for sharing.
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    Nice job. Those are some good looking fish.

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