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Bill Babler

4-22-19 Kind of Nuts Today

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Started at the dam early and it was just not what I wanted it to be.  Had several fish with a 4.52 jaw but not many bites.  Loaded u.p the rig and headed for Baxter.  Temps at the dam were 56 when I launched at 6.

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Relaunch at Baxter at 11 and the temps were 60 and it was just flat on.  I caught them on a Keitech 3.3 and a jerkbait with the boat in 30 ft.  Fish seemed to be in that 15 ft. range suspended and moving up.  Fished from 11 to 5 and did not go 10 minutes without a bite.  Wind was just perfect.  Had 2 keeper walleye one 19 inches and one 22 inches and I released them.  Had 10 crappie, the biggest I have ever caught.

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  One here and one there.  They were monsters. Biggest at 3.08 and 18 inches.  Next biggest at 3.02 and 17.75 inches.  The 10 weighed in at a little under 24 pounds.  Smallest was a shade under 17 inches.

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I have fished in my 65 yrs. on Lake of the Ozarks, Lake Barclay, Kentucky Lake and Toledo Bend and never had a 2 pound crappie let alone a 3 pound crappie and for gosh sakes catching them on Table Rock is just unreal, I'm in a fog.  Knife is 15.5 inches long.

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Every crappie came on a suspending jerkbait.  Color did not matter as long as it was Blue.  They were not schooled, one here and one there.   Pole timber was always present.  Best 5 bass would have pushed 17 pounds, all the best being jaws.

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Champ188 said:

You've got to do that stringer mount … that's just one incredible day of fishing. It's not every day a 17-pound string of smallmouth takes a back seat to anything, but multiple 3-pound crappie trump just about anything.

Congrats, my friend, and well done. 

No kidding.

Heck, I think I'm gonna get a replica stringer mount made of that replica stringer mount!

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well, i was going to put a post up, but i can just put my two cents in here.  the night bite has faded and it sure seems that many fish are suspended, many out in the lake.  your fishing report just proved what i thought to be going on.

we fished the k.c. cow creek area last night and did not have a bite after dark.  guess we will have to wait for the moon to get smaller before the night bite picks back up unless you want to fish from 2 am to daylight.

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Friend caught these yesterday while i was lucking into mine, he and his son were fishing for them.  Caught them all suspended in pole timber about 12 feet down over 30 ft.  Pretty much the same thing we did.  They were using  swimming minnows.

 

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He also caught these and gave them to us.  Becky severed them up tonight.  Said there were 80 in one patch.

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14 hours ago, Bill Babler said:

Friend caught these yesterday while i was lucking into mine, he and his son were fishing for them.  Caught them all suspended in pole timber about 12 feet down over 30 ft.  Pretty much the same thing we did.  They were using  swimming minnows.

 

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He also caught these and gave them to us.  Becky severed them up tonight.  Said there were 80 in one patch.

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Now I'm really jealous! Sign me up!

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