Nice Priest Hybrid, plus a few extras

[JeffsLowe]

Buddy and I went out this morning for a few hours trolling cranks on JPP. Action was pretty constant - crappie, hybrids, yellow bass, plus a decent channel cat and even a bluegill. This was the biggest, which put up quite a tussle on my light gear - had to chase him with the boat to keep from getting spooled. (yes - released and swam away to fight again another day)
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSCN0524_zpsfybmqygd.jpg

These guys, along with several more of their clan - were not so fortunate.
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSC_3566_zpsmxow9yod.jpg

[JeffsLowe]

And the Extras… - a few pics from my Ontario fly in with my daughter a couple weeks ago…
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSCN0500_zpsbzx7xyin.jpg
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSCN0511_zpsf2utjhie.jpg
http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSCN0481_zpsfzl4sonx.jpghttp://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t669/ConfederateViking/DSCN0460_zpsrg0cxwmk.jpg

[Alphahawk]

Nice fish.

Regards


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[Dakota]

Great pictures from all around, nice catches! Thanks for sharing.

[MNfisher]

Great pics and what a memorable trip with your daughter! I used to do fly-in trips with my dad, I sure miss those!
If you don't mind, what depth have you been trolling, I trolled 17-20 last night, caught several crappie, some in the 13" range, no other fish though.


Mike

[Reel Tune]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

[JeffsLowe]

Great pics and what a memorable trip with your daughter! I used to do fly-in trips with my dad, I sure miss those!
If you don't mind, what depth have you been trolling, I trolled 17-20 last night, caught several crappie, some in the 13" range, no other fish though.


Mike

We were a little bit shallower than that yesterday - maybe 14-18 ft. Using the Academy CRULDS in Ghost Shad with enough line out to get them down to around 12 ft. 1.6 mph.

[ttitan27]

Great pics. Congrats!

[Headhunter]

Nothing like Ontario. Best fishing on the whole planet. What part did you fish? I will be there in a couple weeks.

[Fatpat_33]

Great catch sir! Thanks for sharing

[jad2t]

Those pictures in Ontario are awesome. The scenery is great and evidently the fishing is better. I have several destination fishing trips I want to make and one of them is absolutely in Canada. I'd love to just spend a week in a cabin up there and just live in the wilderness for that week fishing sunup to sundown.

[jad2t]

Great pics and what a memorable trip with your daughter! I used to do fly-in trips with my dad, I sure miss those!
If you don't mind, what depth have you been trolling, I trolled 17-20 last night, caught several crappie, some in the 13" range, no other fish though.


Mike

I'm not the most keen on Summer Crappie patterns but if you're fishing for them at night shouldn't you be looking shallower? I know during the Summer you can do really well in the depth range you were trolling in, Merv taught me that one Summer, but I thought at night they'd move off the deep structure and head shallow. Maybe I'm wrong. I'd like to try it this Summer for them though since I spent all of the hot Spring Crappie action out of town this year.

[MNfisher]

I'm not the most keen on Summer Crappie patterns but if you're fishing for them at night shouldn't you be looking shallower? I know during the Summer you can do really well in the depth range you were trolling in, Merv taught me that one Summer, but I thought at night they'd move off the deep structure and head shallow. Maybe I'm wrong. I'd like to try it this Summer for them though since I spent all of the hot Spring Crappie action out of town this year.


Not sure, I've been fishing during daylight hours. Haven't caught a crappie after dark, just bass n catfish


Mike

[agelesssone]

I talked to two sets of old timers Thursday afternoon. They both had double limits, ie 60 crappies.
Both said they were fishing deeper than twenty feet deep and doing the hit and run thing. Catch a couple here, move, hit a couple there.
I haven't crappie fished since April so I don't know what or where. But if I was going to try it, I'd be looking at deep brush and ledges.

[JeffsLowe]

I talked to two sets of old timers Thursday afternoon. They both had double limits, ie 60 crappies.
Both said they were fishing deeper than twenty feet deep and doing the hit and run thing. Catch a couple here, move, hit a couple there.
I haven't crappie fished since April so I don't know what or where. But if I was going to try it, I'd be looking at deep brush and ledges.

60 crappies x 2 sets of boats is 120 crappies. At the usual count (this season anyway), of roughly 3 dinks per keeper, that is (3x 120) 360 dinks, plus 120 keepers, 480 crappies total.

"Hit and run, a couple here, a couple there," means 2 per spot. 480 crappie divide by 2 per spot equals 240 spots, or 120 spots per boat. Assuming old timers generally fish this time of year only 6Am to noon, thats 6 hours per boat. With each boat covering 120 spots over 6 hours, 20 spots per hour, or 3 minutes per spot.

So with 2 boats of old timer crappie fisherman, moving every 3 minutes, each, to cover all 120 spots each, you guys have no room to complain about bass fisherman or jet skis. :D

[agelesssone]

60 crappies x 2 sets of boats is 120 crappies. At the usual count (this season anyway), of roughly 3 dinks per keeper, that is (3x 120) 360 dinks, plus 120 keepers, 480 crappies total.

"Hit and run, a couple here, a couple there," means 2 per spot. 480 crappie divide by 2 per spot equals 240 spots, or 120 spots per boat. Assuming old timers generally fish this time of year only 6Am to noon, thats 6 hours per boat. With each boat covering 120 spots over 6 hours, 20 spots per hour, or 3 minutes per spot.

So with 2 boats of old timer crappie fisherman, moving every 3 minutes, each, to cover all 120 spots each, you guys have no room to complain about bass fisherman or jet skis. :D
I didn't ask too many questions of the old guys. They were cleaning the crappie at 1PM. said they had caught about 80 fish which is better than a 3/1 ratio. Don't believe you can ASSUME how many times they moved or how long they stayed at any one spot.
I didn't have any reason to doubt them as I watched them clean multiple 13-14 in fish.

[JeffsLowe]

I didn't ask too many questions of the old guys. They were cleaning the crappie at 1PM. said they had caught about 80 fish which is better than a 3/1 ratio. Don't believe you can ASSUME how many times they moved or how long they stayed at any one spot.
I didn't have any reason to doubt them as I watched them clean multiple 13-14 in fish.

It was meant as a joke, in response to all the complaining about boaters zooming around..

Guess I should to stick to my day job. (if I had one)

[SAMBOLIE]

It was meant as a joke, in response to all the complaining about boaters zooming around..

Guess I should to stick to my day job. (if I had one)

Jeffs Slow but Merv is slower. :D

[agelesssone]

Glad I'm better at sumthin than somebody else is!

[Headhunter]

60 crappies x 2 sets of boats is 120 crappies. At the usual count (this season anyway), of roughly 3 dinks per keeper, that is (3x 120) 360 dinks, plus 120 keepers, 480 crappies total.

"Hit and run, a couple here, a couple there," means 2 per spot. 480 crappie divide by 2 per spot equals 240 spots, or 120 spots per boat. Assuming old timers generally fish this time of year only 6Am to noon, thats 6 hours per boat. With each boat covering 120 spots over 6 hours, 20 spots per hour, or 3 minutes per spot.

So with 2 boats of old timer crappie fisherman, moving every 3 minutes, each, to cover all 120 spots each, you guys have no room to complain about bass fisherman or jet skis. :D


Our usual count this year was however many crappie we caught was how many legal fish we had on Priest. The last couple years I have caught very few fish under 10".