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MNfisher
05-18-2014, 08:19 PM
Had a great day of fishing yesterday. I worked until 10:45, brought the boat to work and was on the water by about 12:30. I was up in the pond area of the Caney. They had no water moving at all. It was the lowest I have ever seen it and crystal clear water. So I just started out by driving the area. I went to many of my favorite spots to catch fish, and it was neat to see why they were good spots. And every spot I like in the pond area, had a clear indicator why there were fish there. Very cool. I found an area where it was shallow all around it, but about a 30' by 20' area where i couldn't see bottom in the middle of the shallow area. I tossed a TM in there and it never made it to the bottom. I anchored right there and for the next 3 hours caught or missed a fish just about every cast. I caught 50 or more crappie, most in the 8-9", but several over 10, including a few over 12". 50 or more bluegill. 5 stripers 12-14", 7 white bass 13-14", 2 drum, about 20 skipjack and 3 rainbows, one stocker and 2 at 14 1/2". Also broke off on a bow that was in the 16-17" range. It jumped and my line snapped, due to me not retying at all.

Then at 4:00 they kicked the generator on, I headed over to the boils. I managed about 10 more skipjack, and an 18" brown. I didn't get a pic of the brown due to the current and being alone. Then the bite died and i started to head down river. Managed 2 14" browns and a nice fat 22 7/8" brown. Missed a few other great hits.

Had a lot of fun. Its good to just get out all alone sometimes and catch fish:)

Alphahawk
05-18-2014, 08:26 PM
Beautiful fish and pics Mike! That's quite an impressive haul. Congrats!


Regards

SAMBOLIE
05-18-2014, 10:06 PM
beautiful fish and pics mike! That's quite an impressive haul. Congrats!

Regards


+1

creekcrappie
05-18-2014, 10:14 PM
Those are some nice fish right there!

tcintn
05-19-2014, 04:48 AM
You the man Mike.That Brown looked awesome.Do't catch to many,I will be back some day.:)

jad2t
05-19-2014, 07:37 AM
Wow that's quite a good day on the Caney. Congrats!!

Saltwaterwalt
05-19-2014, 07:49 AM
All I can say is, you must be living right Mike ... you sure can catch 'em!

browntrout
05-19-2014, 08:32 AM
Awesome trip!!! Congrats.

Roy

Reel Tune
05-19-2014, 10:11 AM
Nice mix of fish

Transplanted Sportsman
05-19-2014, 10:23 AM
Awsome mixed bag there Mike!!, congrats!, very nice pics as always!!

fisher01
05-19-2014, 11:35 AM
Congrats on your super day!!

nomad60
05-19-2014, 12:52 PM
Way to go, Mike!

CreekWalker
05-19-2014, 12:57 PM
Nice to meet you Mike! We ended up seeing some monster blowups a good ways downstream. I have more bird stories than fish stories. There was a crane trying to steal from a big fish that was trashing some bait which was pretty cool to see. I tried throwing topwater for a bit and a darn hawk or something big and mean looking dropped down very near it before I yelled at it. It wasn't shy.

This is our best fish of the evening.

MNfisher
05-19-2014, 01:06 PM
Great to meet you too. Next time we will have to hit it together.


Mike

tsuggs
05-21-2014, 03:55 PM
great report and pics.