Opening Day Snagging Report

[Seth]

We boated nine fish between 12am-5am and then two more later that afternoon. Two of them had tags. Our numbers should have been more, but we had a terrible time with rolling fish and not burying the hooks in to them. Everything we caught was up around the Walnut Springs area. The 72 pounder was caught while three of us were fishing a big tree for crappie. One of the guys decided to make a few cast with the snagging rod and ended up hitting it. I've got it all on GoPro, which I am working on editing right now. I'll try to remember to post the video on here as well once I have it done and uploaded to YouTube.nThe difference in the number of fish I graphed before daylight and after we got back out there that afternoon was staggering. Boat traffic and daylight really scatter those fish in a hurry.

We also did some crappie fishing Wednesday and Thursday afternoon. The only way we could get bit was fishing big wads of brush and trees in water 20-25' deep. The fish were about 10' down. Wednesday produced 8 keepers and Thursday produced 9 for us with plenty of shorts.

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[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Thats pretty good, I only saw one boat with a fish tied to the side all day yesterday

[Gavin]

Something you like to do,& looks like the folks had fun! Not my speed but good to you guys!

[Seth]

2 hours ago, Gavin said:

Something you like to do,& looks like the folks had fun! Not my speed but good to you guys!

I have more fun putting others on these big fish than catching the myself anymore. A lot of people I take haven't caught anything that weighs 1/4 of what a big spoonbill weighs. It's fun, but I would rather chase crappie, whites or trout this time of year. Come late May, it's pretty well nothing but river bass till mid October. I try to avoid fishing for bass outside of that time simply because I like to fish for too many other species.

[Johnsfolly]

Congrats Seth on a nice bunch of spoonbill! Catching a big one while fishing for crappie is pretty amazing knowing how spread out they cam be once there are boats chasing them. Can't wait to see the video.

They are still a bucket list species for me and I did not have any luck last year.