Favorite pond day two.

[BilletHead]

  This time took the little 12 foot duck boat without the mud motor . Put in the two seats we use just to fish this craft. Tight quarters but we have fly fished this way for years. Use trolling motor for this boat pond hopping. The wind was down early but got crazy later on. We each strung up a rod each and put on what worked yesterday. Grinch bug sculpins. Pat used the last purple and I put on a crawfish orange one. We would fish a section anchored then move and repeat the bank. Had to weed through those stinkin green bass to get to the crappie. Bass averaged two to three pounds plus and we caught a bunch. Lots of big bluegill also. In four set ups were kept 31 crappie that beat 12 inches. Even those 12 inch fish with deep bodies are thick shoulders would not go into a crappie measure device. They would get stuck before bottoming out.

Have you ever gotten a crappie thumb?

  It was getting really windy so we loaded the bank and drove along the dam and fished the shore where we caught yesterday. Kept another 9 fish giving us a total of 40. 

We had ice in a cooler and loaded the fish in it. Close to town we got more and dumped on top of those, got a drink and snack and headed home to fillet.  Pat and I have a good system. Using an ironing board I fillet them and pass her the sides and she cuts off the ribs. We completed that task in 39 minutes for 40 fish. Not bad at all. Pat washed and dried those fillets and weighed them. 13 pounds of boneless fillets. 

  Good eats!

[kjackson]

That is more fun than I had today.  Perhaps tomorrow I'll be able to work on my little boat--assuming it doesn't rain. I am getting tired of not fishing...to put it mildly. On the Grinch Bug--what size zonked strips are you using/where did you get them?

[BilletHead]

20 minutes ago, kjackson said:

That is more fun than I had today.  Perhaps tomorrow I'll be able to work on my little boat--assuming it doesn't rain. I am getting tired of not fishing...to put it mildly. On the Grinch Bug--what size zonked strips are you using/where did you get them?

                  I ordered five skins yesterday evening from the ugly bug fly shop in Casper Wyoming. I think 1/8th to a bit smaller strip.   These things are getting really pricy.  Many, many moons ago I was able to get them for 10.99.   They were shipped today. Free shipping and no tax being out of state. Cheapest I can find now.       I have two purple, one each of crawdad orange, light olive, sculpin olive, and olive. 

WAPSI PINE SQUIRREL SKIN ZONKED

      You can get just a few here,

Wapsi Pine Squirrel Zonkers | FishUSA

[jdmidwest]

Nice catch.  I dealt with numbnuts all day and looking at rain for my 3 day weekend.  Yeah.....

[fishinwrench]

Look at those slabs !   😀👍 

 

I need to get out and get a mess. 

[tjm]

14 hours ago, BilletHead said:

crappie measure device.

Something that I'd never heard of. I used to use paint marks on my fly rod for fish measuring. 

[BilletHead]

20 minutes ago, tjm said:

Something that I'd never heard of. I used to use paint marks on my fly rod for fish measuring. 

  They are quite useful for a quick slide them in and out. Inch markings. It actually goes to 12 inches but as you can see those crappie won't go in. And get stuck. 

[Quillback]

Same place where you get the big gills?

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, Quillback said:

Same place where you get the big gills?

Yeah it is. Had to mess with them getting into the way. 

[Quillback]

Man, I like gills better as far as eating than crappie.