Flatbottom Boy Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 I got home for a little vacation last week and I've been chomping at the bit to get the boat in the water after being gone for 7 months. I got to the boat ramp around 8am and it took some serious convincing to back it into the water. The temp in the truck was 23 degrees and the wind was blowing pretty good. After getting all the normal problems taken care of...leaking plug..cobwebs out of the motor, I was well on my way. I stuck to the windy banks in and around McCubbins and right off the bat found a decent bank full of whites. I couldn't believe how aggressively they were feeding. I was casting a purple blue fox spinner and honestly I didn't really get to try much else the first hour. The crappies seemed kinda slow but I did manage a couple really nice ones and a couple brush piles held hungry schools of dinks. The black bass started blasting the spinner later in the morning so I transitioned over to a suspending jerk bait and picked up numerous keeps and more than enough bucks to keep me smiling. It's great to be back home I hope this crappie bite fires up soon!
fishinwrench Posted November 14, 2014 Posted November 14, 2014 Hell Yes! Glad you are back home, Bro.
Flatbottom Boy Posted November 15, 2014 Author Posted November 15, 2014 Just till the 3rd of December Wrench, I'll be back permanently in April. Let me know if you want to take a break working on motors...I have a few mid week days I can break away from the family.
fishinwrench Posted November 15, 2014 Posted November 15, 2014 Work is dead slow around here at the moment, so even with a minimum of notice I'm likely good to go.
Flatbottom Boy Posted November 30, 2014 Author Posted November 30, 2014 I got back out with my oldest two to chase some crappies on Wednesday. Before the high winds and rain we were able to get a dozen really nice ones. We hunkered down on some docks for a few hours when the weather got bad. Mostly dinks in the docks...but the girls toughed it out better than some grown men I know.
Flatbottom Boy Posted December 1, 2014 Author Posted December 1, 2014 I havnt gotten to installing electronics yet but I would say 15-20 fow suspended down about 8ft. They wanted blue and white tube moving pretty slow. I got the girls some minnows and they managed quite a few but there were a lot of small ones hitting them and dink bass. Sucks I couldnt get up your way this time Wrench but Ill hit you up for sure in April. It was hard to pull away from the family.
fishinwrench Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 No problem man, glad you got to have some family time. Much more important. Stay safe and stay in touch.
WHARFRAT Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 ...but the girls toughed it out better than some grown men I know. HA! I think you're talking about me!!!!! Great for them. I only lasted a short while on our docks. And by looking at the pic,,,, they did WAY better than me! I did get out in my boat on Friday. Seemed like my deep water spots were right where the wind was blowing the hardest. I had to put my trolling motor on '80' to even move it. Didn't last too long there, plus nothing to show for it. Found a couple of area's that usually produce this time of the year that was out of most of the wind. Caught a few, but for the time I spent, it wasn't too productive. Saturday was slightly better. And Sunday was about the same as Saturday. I've been hearing people say that they've been picking them up on Minnows 7-10 feet down on slip-corks, but, not sure if my lack of patience, or just not finding them led me to go back to my jigs. Caught very few on minnows, most of the fish I caught were right on the bottom with jigs. All in all, it was pretty poor. I caught only a couple over 11"s, the others were probably pushing 9". Oh well, I'll be ready to punish myself by the weekend again! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! @lozcrappie
Old plug Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 Warfrat------Lot of people say minnows are the thing to use in the cold water. I have not used a monnow in many years. I used to just set over the deep beds and drop a jig down into it and make a ultra slow stop and go retrieve. I like to tip my jig with crappie candy. That stuff will catch you alot of tight lipped crappie. I do not git out into that cold weather anymore. All I do is set at the window with my coffee and wonder how in the hell I used to do it.
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