April "Fools" Day - shell knob

[Chris Musick]

Had to go fishing this mornin. Couldn't take t any longer. So I got to my crappie dock hoping to catch lunch (crappie or bass). So I rigged up minnows and put em to my depth on one pole and bass lures on the other. Cast the bass pole a few times and nothing. After about 5 minutes I hear my crappie pole. Reeled in a stupid sunfish. Then, every time my hook hit the water, another stupid sunfish. All morning this happened. Everything I put in the water got bit by one. Flicker shad, small hooks, big hooks...... I hate sun fish.

No crappie, no bass. Fished from 730 to 1030. Stupid sun fish!

[MOPanfisher]

The sunfish are delicious by the way.  If they are big enough to make a tater chip sized fillet or go old school and scale and fry whole.

[chi0082]

 

Had to go fishing this mornin. Couldn't take t any longer. So I got to my crappie dock hoping to catch lunch (crappie or bass). So I rigged up minnows and put em to my depth on one pole and bass lures on the other. Cast the bass pole a few times and nothing. After about 5 minutes I hear my crappie pole. Reeled in a stupid sunfish. Then, every time my hook hit the water, another stupid sunfish. All morning this happened. Everything I put in the water got bit by one. Flicker shad, small hooks, big hooks...... I hate sun fish.

No crappie, no bass. Fished from 730 to 1030. Stupid sun fish!

How big were they? If they were small, I'd hook one up to a 5/0 hook and toss it back out there a little deeper and hold on. I've had some big surprises in the past when doing that out of the same frustration you were having.

[marcus]

did you hear any turkeys gobbling around shell knob?

[fshndoug]

go fishing on a cloudy day,you won't get as many sunfish

[Bill Babler]

Pretty Windy this morning at Shell Knob. We caught them good on the main Lake. My boat had 28. Ned and a Tim Hughes jerker . Tim Paige had one client and was with me. They had 18 all on a home made underspins 1/4 oz and a 2.8 Keitech in Electric Shad. Mostly gravel chunk mix. 5 to 10 ft of water

[Hammer time]

In my opinion nothing better eating than big gills even better than crappie and walleye.