10-15-06 Crappie Report

Made it out today for possibly my last outing of the year with the boat. Got on the lake about 8:45am and was on fish right away. I don’t know for sure how many I caught but can tell you it was a BUNCH! I ended the day with my limit of crappie with all but 3 being over 10″. The 3 were bleeding pretty good so I kept them instead of letting them die. Most of them ranged from 8-14″. I caught a few dinks but not as many as I thought I would catch. Caught them with a variety of methods. Caught some dipping shallow brush, vertical jigging, casting jigs, and a jig under a bobber all worked well. I had my limit by noon and then went after walleye and caught 4 shorts on 1/4 once jigs working a drop-off. Fish are really putting the feed bag on for winter as most that I cleaned were FULL of shad.

Hope to maybe make it back out but with the cold temps coming, I might just winterize.

Nice Fish. “limit of crappie” sounds funny to me. In our state, we dont have limits on crappies or bluegills.

That’s cause you don’t have any lakes!! (Couldn’t resist).

It doesn’t look like you should put the boat away yet!!!
Nice catch.

I am just going to drain and fill lower units for now. That way I will still be able to go if it stays nice. I have older motors and have enough problems with them to worry about. Just precaution!

I am going to try and get out again!

You… and Fish Hunter are the Masters.

T

You better get that boat out a few more times, Greg….we gotta break ice with it!

And thanks, Todd….although Greg is real hard to outfish when it comes to crappie! I’ve only done it once or twice…he’s the man.

Way to go!

Walleye & FM

You guys ever ice fish for those crappies out there?? I’d be up to try that this winter!!!

I bet they would be tastee out of some cold clean water!!!

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Walleye & FM

You guys ever ice fish for those crappies out there?? I’d be up to try that this winter!!!

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Boy do we like to ICE FISH!!!!!! With colder temps comes the urge to break out the ice gear, fire up the auger, and set up the shanty. We generally do our best in Northern KS if they get ice. Here is a couple pics from KS trips.

As for the tasty part from COLD water……..They are the best fish you’ll eat. Big difference from some caught in warm water. Meat is really firm. In fact, here is a pic of fishhunter while cleaning our catch of 12-15″ Slabs from KS. I have yet to this day been able to figure out if he is just really hungry or just MAD cause I out-fished
him again!

I GOT A KNIFE!!! EVERYONE GET BACK!!!!

Me thinks I have to make two good friends. And since I went to HS in Smith Center. I have wheat head status.

Wowza, do I miss panfishing!!!

Have strikemaster, marcum, and aquaview – willing to travel!

Todd

You guys got to stop posting these pictures! You are making me very jealous. I’m going on day 20 in a row for work with finally a day off this Sunday. Of course, I’ll have to work the following 13 days By the way, I got a sneak peak of the new Cabellas and it’s 135,000 square feet of heaven

Come ONE, come ALL!

I am always looking for some company on the weekends when Hard Water gets here.

Ya, and fat friends like me are good to have during hard water.

“Yo, Todd, walk out there with your auger and clam. If you’re all right, we’ll come out too.”

Trust me, I feel your pain!!!

How did you do today brian, I had to stay home and watch my kid

Didn’t do too bad at all. I plan on getting a report up online later on today. We caught some real nice crappie, and caught good numbers too. Always a blast!