Members Bream Posted April 13, 2015 Members Posted April 13, 2015 Me and the wife put in at Cedar Ridge around 8:30am on 4-11. We wanted to catch crappie and started out throwing jigs and flicker shads of different colors for a couple of hours with not even a nibble. Went to motor across the cove and couldn’t get the motor to fire off…finally realized the kill switch had been pulled. Made it to the other side went to drop the trolling motor and heard “crunch” I had stepped on the end of a rod and broke about 9 inches off the end. About an hour later ran across something and knocked a chuck out of the prop. Beached the boat to eat lunch and found the cause of all the bad luck…I had put 2 bananas in the sack with our lunch. They were the first things we ate and got rid of them. A stripper guide in South Carolina told me about bananas on a fishing boat were bad luck and had forgot about it until Saturday. We fished for crappie up till about three with no luck. Changed over to green pumpkin finesse worms rigged texas and caught 7 keeper large mouths on main lake points before having to leave for home. Will never make the mistake of bringing bananas on the boat again!!! Off to buy a new prop and rod! Aggressor1988long, David Unnerstall, Lifes2Short and 2 others 5
LoweSTX175 Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 Is beer good luck? I always assumed if the fish heard one crack open they'd want to come to the boat to have one with me. Lifes2Short 1
Justin Spencer Posted April 13, 2015 Posted April 13, 2015 That's my 1 superstition. "The problem with a politician’s quote on Facebook is you don’t know whether or not they really said it." –Abraham Lincoln Tales of an Ozark Campground Proprietor Dead Drift Fly Shop
slab slinger Posted April 14, 2015 Posted April 14, 2015 Bream...Sorry bout you BAD luck. Gotta laugh outta reading your post though. On the crappie you were in a good location but dont know how to help ya unless i was there. I have been doing well fishing spawning coves look for pea gravel banks in backs of coves or a rock/gravel bank close to a channel swing those are text book spawning locations this time of year. I would start out fishing minnows under float 1.5 to 2.5 feet deep Guaranteed youll get them if they are there. If you dont want to mess with live bait or just like jigs like i do then use your fav crappie jig the same depths. Cast to bank and play around with depth and retreave till you find what they want. Alot of poeple overthink fishing the spawn its not hard to find the fish and develop a pattern that will pay over and over year after year. Just keep it simple and have fun. PM me if you need more advice on crappie. Would be glad to help ya any questions welcome. packersooner and Aggressor1988long 2
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