Crappie are on fire!!

[Quillback]

Yeah wind can put the Ki-bosh on that surface deal. 

You guys ever throw those big 6" magnum spoons for stripers? 

[Bird Watcher]

Quill, I don't.  FWIW, I'd still consider myself a striper novice with less than 100 fish caught,  but I do throw a custom made 2.5 ounce spoon at Hybrids on Truman, a lot.  It out produces live bait by a large margin on a lot of days.  It kind of depends on if the fish are positive, neutral, or negative.  If they are suspended and neutral it seems like the spoon produces better than shad for me. 

It gets a reaction bite and a lot of times they like to nip the tail of your shad when they aren't super hungry.  When they do the same to that big spoon they get the feathered treble right in their lips.  I've never fished any of the big flutter spoons though. 

[Quillback]

Thanks for the tip on the 2.5 oz spoon.  I picked a couple of these dudes up, thinking they might work for largemouth, but I think they have striper possibility.  It's a good sized bait, 5 inches or so.

[J-Doc]

That's what I lost overboard when I flipped a rod overboard trying to net a fish.

Hadn't caught anything on it yet but had not fished it that much either.   And no.........I'm not bitter about losing my rod either. (ha)