10-30-2013, 03:30 PM
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Good start to crappie fishing.
Kicked off my fall crappie fishing today with limit of 15 crappie at Nickajack. Most of the fish were 11-12 inches with a few at the 13 mark. Had to work hard getting them....meaning it took me 5 hours. I used a Bison colored Trout Magnet with 2# test line and 3# test fluorocarbon leader. The water temp there was 61 degrees....which surprised me. The crappie were holding tight to cover right up next to a wall that drops 23 feet but the fish were holding about 4 feet deep. My nephew and I will hit it again Friday.
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10-30-2013, 03:49 PM
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Nice catch. Water temp on priest last night was 61.
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10-30-2013, 03:59 PM
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I am hoping the bite gets better and the fish get bigger when it drops to 58.
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10-30-2013, 04:07 PM
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Nice solid limit there Alpha!!, water temp was 62 deg at Normandy last Sunday, caught on hoss 16 inch Crappie at about 6 feet deep an a brush pile, only fish caught all day!!! in ten hours of fishing so I have a road ahead before I can be as good as you are to catch these slabs!!
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10-30-2013, 04:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Transplanted Sportsman
Nice solid limit there Alpha!!, water temp was 62 deg at Normandy last Sunday, caught on hoss 16 inch Crappie at about 6 feet deep an a brush pile, only fish caught all day!!! in ten hours of fishing so I have a road ahead before I can be as good as you are to catch these slabs!!
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Thanks....the key for me to catching crappie is to have locations that you are pretty sure they are there in the same place year after year. Through a lot of time and gasoline I have found those places....LOL. I have a place on Normandy that I need to check out that I have been told holds big slabs.....I just need to get over there and see if it is so.
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10-30-2013, 07:08 PM
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Nice work Alpha!!
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10-31-2013, 06:14 AM
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Pretty fish Alpha.
I fished my crappie holes hard earlier in the year but around Thanksgiving will start back again.
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10-31-2013, 09:17 AM
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Alpha, did you use a bobber or just cast and reel?
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10-31-2013, 09:45 AM
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Master Trout Magnet
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Alpha, did you use a bobber or just cast and reel?
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No float yesterday...just casting and jigging it in. There are days where I use the float there but they didn't want that yesterday. They were in a finicky mood and since I got up at 3:30 to get down there I was wanting to leave after about 3 hours and only 8 fish. But I kept at it and when I got that 15th one I hit the road. My nephew is taking every Friday off in November so he can go down there with me. He has a love affair with the place after taking 6 trips down with me and we limited out every time....but I told him that don't always happen and we are over due for some not so good days down there. Hope he don't burn his vaction time for no fish...LOL.
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10-31-2013, 10:42 AM
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Yup, it seems you have to experiment every day to see what mood the fish are in. Some days it's a stationary presentation other days is a moving target.
Glad you caught your limit. Adds more fun to the trip.
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10-31-2013, 11:48 AM
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Was down that way on a sales trip about 3 weeks ago. didn't catch a fish above the dam on the lake but a boater said he heard they were catching crappie below the dam in the eddies during generation, I tried it and caught three over about an hour, they were all quality fish. When a nice crappie gets in current, its a whole different ball game when it comes to a fight with 2# test. Glad to hear they are starting to bite on the lake side, need to make more sales calls down that way. 
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10-31-2013, 01:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hotwielen65
Was down that way on a sales trip about 3 weeks ago. didn't catch a fish above the dam on the lake but a boater said he heard they were catching crappie below the dam in the eddies during generation, I tried it and caught three over about an hour, they were all quality fish. When a nice crappie gets in current, its a whole different ball game when it comes to a fight with 2# test. Glad to hear they are starting to bite on the lake side, need to make more sales calls down that way. |
If one does not filet crappie that tail race can give you 30 fish a lot of times. But I have never caught any slabs down there like in the lake. But I haven't fished it that much either.....but there are plenty of 9-10 inch fish there....just right for eating whole.
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