Winter update 2024

[top_dollar]

                    Looks like crappie fishing up here is done for a few weeks as I'm sure everything is froze up.  Fishing has been the same as it always is.  Lots of dinks, with the occasional big one out of lake 33.  All the lakes are low, but 33 is about 1/3 empty.  I have never seen so many snagged bobbers on all the brush lol.  I have a love/hate relationship with lake 33, but I did catch my personal best there just before Christmas, it was 16" inches at least.  I caught it on a 1/32oz jig with about 1.5 inches of keitech tail.   

                  The other lakes have been a bit of a crap shoot, but when you find them they are generally eater sized fish.  Jigs under a cork 1-5 feet deep.  Generally muddier lakes have shallower fish, clearer lakes they will be a bit deeper.  I haven't done any bass fishing, or any other species.  I did have a successful managed crossbow hunt to add to my grocery haul.  Real bow hunting takes too much skill for me, and I cant believe Missouri lets you use a crossbow during archery season, but they do, so I'm gonna use one.  I shot that one at 60 yards through a scope 🤣. 

                 That is kind of how I feel about FFS, of course it is cheating, but since they are legal, as soon as they make one cheap enough for a bum like me, I'm gonna get one.  Since I don't currently have one though, I do reserve the right to complain about how everyone currently using one is cheating.

 

[JUNGLE JIM 1]

That's a big crappie, Congratulations.