Tried A Little Crappie Fishing In The James River Arm This Afternoon.

[duckydoty]

Got done working early and on the water at Bridgeport by 3. Started trolling some flats with flicker shad and only caught on short crappie near point 15. Headed up Flat Creek to see what I could find and I did not find too much. Caught a few shorts in the brush along the bluff above the bridge and decided to check out Peach Orchard. Stopped short of Peach Orchard and fished some Timber shallow on Stones Flat. Caught 3 short crappies in 13 feet of water and one big sow white. Decided to head down past Virgin bluff and try some of the MDC brush piles. Caught 6-7 more shorts and 2 keepers on a brush pile in 28 feet of water. The fish were suspended in the brush at about 16 feet. Beautiful afternoon to be out there and lots of big pretty boats roaring around. Though I might want to fish TR this weekend for whites and crappie, but I'm thinking I may head over to Taney to stay out of the way of them big guys.

[Sac River Jim]

ducky it might be a good time to ck out blunks and taylor shoal too i guess it depends how much rain they get up towards springfield next couple of days.

[duckydoty]

Yeah, they have been tearing them up at Blunks and Tayor Shoals should really get good with this rain were gonna get. I would rather chase crappie to eat than the whites though.

[Bitethis]

Yeah, they have been tearing them up at Blunks and Tayor Shoals should really get good with this rain were gonna get. I would rather chase crappie to eat than the whites though.

I am familiar with Blunks, but not Taylor Shoals and I keep hearing reference to it. Is it up river, or down river of Blunks?

[duckydoty]

up river about 3/4 of a mile

[Bitethis]

thanks Ducky!

[ozarkgunner]

Can I put my boat in at blunk or is the water too low?

[Sam]

I won't start a new thread with my fishing story since it happened at about the same place at the same time.

We did a little better than that. You all got to talking about Flicker Shads here, which I didn't know about, so I picked a few up at Bass Pro a few days ago. Don't do that - they want $4.97 for them at the store! I'll order mine online, and from somewhere else, from now on.

My partner and I fished from Bridgeport up to McCord Bend in all the spots I know from previous years and didn't find much. We finally settled on trolling a bluff bank in 30-35 feet of water where there's deep flooded timber, and we started picking up keeper crappie. They weren't biting too fast, just once in awhile - and my partner was trolling with roostertails, swimming minnows, and such, and wasn't getting any bites. Finally, I reluctantly loaned him one of my $5. Flicker Shads (he tends to troll right through brushpiles, and he breaks off a lot).

Sure enough, first pass it's "Uh oh, I'm hung up!" - about what I figured. We decided he had enough line on his reel I could turn the boat around and go back bow-forward. I mentioned that he wouldn't have much chance of getting that plug back, what with it having two trebles and hung up on deep timber.

We got back to where he was hung, and had good luck - he got the plug up to the top of the water and found that he had snagged a fishing line. I put the motor in neutral and went to the back deck to hold the line he had snagged, while he tried to untangle it from his lure. I grabbed ahold of the line and tried to pull it tight - and it pulled back! We got it in and got the tangle straightened out, and there was a big white bass hooked on a good chrome Rattletrap on the end of that line. So my partner caught the biggest fish of the day, but in a pretty unusual way.

Did any of you guys lose such a rig, along with a bunch of bright PINK monofilament? If you did, well, thanks for the fish and the plug!

[jmes]

Now that's something that doesn't happen everyday

and Good Job

[murphdog]

Sam- I had to laugh out loud when I read about your friend getting the big white and finding a silver rattle trap and line attached. My friend is the one who lost that fish and lure yesterday! He had a pair of clippers around his neck while trolling. He hooked the fish and when he was playing it his clippers flung around and cut the line. How could that even happen? We laughed so hard at work today. Glad someone got the fish...and lure. Good fishing!