Late report, a mud run and 30 crappie

[TapOut64]

This past Saturday I was up at 5:30 and it wasn't to go fishing. It was to run in the ASYMCA 8K (5 miles) Mud Run on Little Creek Naval Amphib Base in Virginia Beach. It really should have been called the sand run as half the course was in soft sand and we had to run up numerous sand dunes which was brutal.

This pic is right after crawling through the deepest mud pit and climbing up a 10' mound of sand.



And me running towards the finish line.



Here is one of the shallow mud pits.



There were numerous ones like this, plus we had to run across a 3' deep creek and get over a 5' wall. I finished 9th out of 24 in my age group of 50-54 and 110th out of 279 men. 1,129 runners finished the race. They had divisions for couples, teams, female, male, and under 19. It was a great challenge and my first race ever and I am already motivated to do a lot better next year.

After rinsing off in the ocean and hanging out for a bit, I headed out to Western Branch and put in around 12:30. After roughly 6 hours, I had landed 30 crappie of which just about everyone was 11" except for this guy, who went 1lb 4oz and was closer to 13" caught 17' deep over a submerged tree with a chartreuse/pearl wasshoppah.



All the crappie were caught deep with most caught 20' deep. Not many casting, most vertical jigging. Water temp was 82. Fishing has been lousy for me and 30 is the most I have caught since I got 38 at Burnt Mills back on May 26. Looks like I will be back out there tomorrow and will hopefully catch a few big ones.

[Anchor Man]

Nice catch Tap especially after running in that mess all morning.

[VaCrappieMan]

Nice tap! Good to see you catching em... I need to try me some wasshoppah... I was looking for some of the watsit jigs but those might work better... Also looked like a fun mud run

[tahoe 50]

George its great to see you posting again. Have missed you, and your big red machine out at the river. Was going to drop you a pm to see how you were doing. Hopefully will see you out on the river this fall.

[JET4]

I'd would have went home and fell out after that run, but you keep going and went fishing. Good work and nice fish you caught.

[wasabi]

Darn George. How old are you? I respect your energy level!

[TapOut64]

Darn George. How old are you? I respect your energy level!

I am 50.

[Roy]

Crappie sounds like fun, the mud run not so much. I'm tired just looking at the pictures. Glad you enjoyed both.

[TapOut64]

I spent some morning time on Western Branch yesterday, nothing worth starting a new thread over so I will just add to this one.

Calm winds early.



And after 5.5 hours 20 crappie with the biggest at 1lb 2oz.



This time I got most of them casting although I was getting them 15' to 22' deep on a pearl BGBS. I had one other at 1lb even but most were around 9"-10". Only 3 other boats when I arrived around 7:15.

[boots]

Back when I was only 50 I could have done that! NO SIR! I don't think I could ever had done that run at any age, mud and sand, My hats off to you.