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Kansas
Ive been hitting a lot of walleye but most dont take a ride home with me. They suffer from that disease where the tip of the nose is too close to their tail.
Short in shorts on shorts
I decent one from Wilson.
Good one Kyle, just glad there isn't any evidence of me taking a leak of the side of the boat! ;-)
Hit the Chikaskia this morning, caught 20-30 this size and smaller. One big boy, 5#'s or so, but lost my grip on him trying to get his pic.
Work on your grip strength, good eatin.
Beautiful spot Kyle! Get that grease hot….some good eats!
Went out in Long Island Sound today in a friend's boat. Loaded up on bluefish for the baking dish and smoker. Between 9-12 lbs. Kept 6.
Pretty cool, don't think I've had Bluefish, what's it comparable to?
It's a realitivily strong oily fish. It acts like Salmon when you smoke it. Some people hate it, we love it. To each their own I guess. Smoked fillets freeze good too. I will be making some smoked fish dip this weekend.
Bug-eyed short at ElDo yesterday, caught a 19 and a 20...but no 21's
Kept a nice mess of fish yesterday. Before you guys give me crap about eating bass, I had orders from the boss to fill the freezer for the church fish fry. Walleye sounds MUCH better!
Nice mess, and Warsteiner is one of my faves!
Working the dog this morning at Augusta Lake, somebody caught up with a nice cat!
Jason: Nothing wrong with eating bass. I fried up a couple of meals of bass last night. I am not quite as fond of them as Crappie or Walleye, but they are close in my book. I will eat the second meal tonight. In order to maintain a healthy fishery, some bass need to be removed.
I can’t believe Dave didn’t show us a pic of that Cat before he took the filets off.
Yeah Bass is good eating but I’ve never had walleye to compare it too though.
You must have great taste in beer Sito!
Don't get me wrong... bass is way better than most other things you can eat, but it isn't walleye. I need to find a way to cook it (other than fried) that is kind of healthy.
BeStill, how's running going for ya?
Took some of the staff to have some fun with Capt Bryan of Whiskers and he killed it. Put us on a mess of Blues. Boated 26 by noon.
That’s a lot of fish Matt.
What was that Cat? Didn’t quite hear ya…naw running ran away from me again. I went just earlier since you said something and it was downright pitiful. I had to pull up after just 2 laps. Can’t believe I went from 3 miles just a year or 2 ago to this.
I’m up to close to 180 so I need to lose around 20lbs as well. I’ll try and do better
I'm ribbing ya Bestill. If I was you I'd be trying to use that energy to shoot pigs and grey foxes every night. Or catch some big yellowcats.
Big Yellas sounds fun. What I need to do is to get this boat on the water. Haven’t used it in so long I probably need to drain the fuel and put some fresh gas in it.
Thought you were going to sell that thing? But if it's protected by that buck with it's ears laid back like that nobody would risk trying to take it. Always liked those center consoles!
Cat...ole "Pip-Squeak" ain't gonna hurt nobody or anything else. BTW, nice look'in bass and filets.
Mike....let's see a pic. of that beard. Down to your waistline yet?
I was Cat but I got distracted and then thought what if…what if I start finding the time to go fishing.
Crested it’s doing well. Erica keeps threatening to cut a swipe out of it so me and Ella are sleeping in another room. She has a lot better ears than me and she’ll let me know if anybody is creeping up on me.
Again....let's see a pic of that beard. Is it as impressive as this one?
Ummm Crested I ain’t about to take a selfie and no it’s not as long as that fella’s:?)
This thing has went from fishing, to running, to decoys, to a man wanting to see my beard. Will somebody hurry and post some pics of fish please.
Caught a few crappie @ QSR today
My wife and I went out this morning to our favorite watershed. Bass and crappie were a bit slow, but the channel cats made up for it. We kept 7 to filet for the, 4 for landowner and 3 for us. We released another 7 or 8 of the same size. All caught on 3” shad body with #2 Colorado spinner blade.
Picture with spinner. Used both silver and gold spinners.
Nice mess of channels! I catch the occasion cat on a jig or spinner but not usually a mess of them. Were you dragging it across the bottom?
Not uncommon to catch some bullheads while jigging for crappie.
We have fished this watershed for a number of years now, and it was never unusual to catch 1 to maybe 3 channels on spinners while bass fishing. I have never had a day like today where we caught 14 or 15, 3# to 6#.
Jason, we were in about 5’ of water, throwing to the bank, and I using just enough speed to keep from snagging the bottom. I caught 2 that nailed the spinner as soon as it hit the water, rolled on the surface and then went deep as soon as I set the hook. I missed 2 that tried to hit the same way, and I tried to set the hook to quick and missed them as they rolled on the surface. Others hit on the retrieve in 2’ to 4’ of water just above the bottom and they all hit hard.
It’s normally about a 35 acre watershed, but it’s probably 8’ low looking at the spillway. This is the 1st time I have seen it where all vegetation around the shoreline was out of the water with 3’ of bare bank showing all around the perimeter. I checked the stomachs on 3 to see what they were eating and their stomachs were empty. Im hoping they’re not running out of forage after seeing how aggressive they were today.
I hope you just caught the perfect timing and hit a feeding frenzy, rather than they've eaten all the forage. Sounds like a blast of a trip!
I had the same fears this year. The watershed I fish was low for a long time. Last Feb I started catching a lot big and fat bass. This summer I started catching small and very skinny bass. I was afraid that with it so low they had eaten all the bait fish. I'm seeing little ones in the shallows now, but have caught very few bluegill this summer compared to normal. Hopefully everything bounces back.
I got early this morning and got nice mess of Crappie.
Looks like a couple of nice ones Lee.
A couple of them are about 14 inches. Ones that size are few and far between in the little state lake where I caught these.
Saguaro Lake this morning, E of Scottsdale. Probably the neatest freshwater I've fished.
Beautiful scenery and nice fish. No reason not to enjoy that.
Ft Lauderdale this morning, the sea was angry!
Nice!! If my wife was on that boat in that water she'd be leaning over side turning green
Nice Kyle!! Looks like some good eats!
Can't really see the swells in those pics, but 6-8 ' or better. Not as bad as my Kauai trip a few years back.
Wow, that looks like some awesome fishing sit0! I'm envious!
I went halibut fishing once in Oregon. I was on one of only a few charters that went out that morning. 56 foot long boat. When we were in a trough you couldn't see anything other than walls of water around you, and when it was on a crest it would rock/shutter/crash coming down off it. I puked a lot that morning, a whole lot! Most everyone else did too, even a guy who had made a living on a salmon boat for 20yrs who said he'd never been sea-sick a day in his life. I'd do it again!
Great fishing this afternoon. 24 fish with 25 casts. Only stopped so I'd have time to clean them before the football game this evening. Not much prettier than cold water crappie!
Cat....My mouth is watering????
Firmer filets too, the best!
Oh sure. I was going hunting tomorrow, but now I want to go fishing. Damn you Jason. ;) Then rub it in with 24 fish in 25 casts. What an afternoon.
Looked like a couple stickin bass pollutin the string, maybe the dog can eat it?
He'll ya I kept them. If I'm getting a knife dirty I'm cleaning everything! Anyway, I got bored catching crappie on every cast so I switched a bettlespin. Still caught crappie but added 4 bass.
Dang man. That REALLY makes me want to go fishing. Bass are good eatin. We eat several thru the summer. How deep were the crappie?
Feather jigs 3'-4' under a bobber. Fishing over brush in 8' of water. Windy side of the lake.
Come over. We'll send the boys on a long run while we fish. :)
Nice bunch of fish. I hope to get out this weekend between Deet hunts.
I need to start fishing more myself in the summer but I don’t see how y’all do it during deer season:?) I’ll eat em though.
I will have to take you up on that offer sometime.
We just got off the lake. It was slow. 0745-1215. We caught 9. 7 were keepers though.
I showed Ely your fish pics. He got all excited and wanting to go. So we ended up going out to shoot a rifle at the place my dad lives at. There are fish ponds there. He caught 10 bass and 1 bluegill
Nice job Ely! The kid can run AND catch fish. Well done!
The wife got to talking last night that we hadn't had fish in months. So we went out this afternoon to catch supper. The bass were biting good. Each kid kept 4 and threw several more back
Nice catch and great picture
No pics of dinner? Fresh fried fish... just to rub it in! Nice job getting the whole family out!
I am jealous of those fish. My freezer is lacking fish, so yesterday afternoon, I decided to go to a pond that usually produces Crappie for me. As it turns out I should have gone hunting. I had a flat tire and my pickup is at the service station getting two new tires as the flat was ruined. I did catch about 50 Crappie, but they were only about 6 inches long. Hopefully, they will be good sized in a couple of years.
Hit a lake I have never fished before. It was slow. Slow last weekend on the home lake too. Im ready for water temps to get right.
I have never been a winter time fisherman. But after seeing Aaron post up his winter crappie pics. I am going to take the boat out this winter. When do the crappie start to pile up on the deeper structures? And what depths do you generally fishing for them at?
You don't have to go deep. Even in the heart of winter I will find some schools on top of brush that are only 6-10 feet down. Find structure close to drop offs and you will get on some fish. Once my buck fever goes away I'll start fishing again and give some better tips. I haven't been on the water for six weeks now. I'm not sure which is worse, buck fever or fishing withdrawals...
Great! Thanks. I am itching to do some fishing. But have dad's elk hunt and sons deer hunt to work on first
Our best in the winter is usually structure in 15-20 ft. I love the water temp in the 30s.
It wouldnt let me edit to add a pic so here is one. That is a giant school of crappie on the graph. We followed them from piece of brush to piece of brush all morning. Water temp 35. We fish all winter long.
That graph is cool as hell ksgobbler!
Had to kicked the ducks off the pond to fish this afternoon. LOTS of action. Crappie galore!
Catch a lot of beat up and scared fish. Assume turtles but don't know. You guys see much of this?
I've not see it, but I've seen some beat up channels
Cat…whatever you do…don’t eat that one! PM me and I’ll explain why.
Will do crested!
Ps- I caught 2 like that the other day. Threw them both back.
Great crappie fishing today! Several 14-16 inchers. I threw back anything over 14 but kept all of the smaller ones (except for a few fat ones).
Man, your killing me. I wanted to go BAD. And also wanted to go bird hunting. Didn't get to do either. Clearing snow and unpacking from Colorado. I got the boat out 2 weeks ago and got it all ready. So whenever it works, I am going
Slow today but not as bad as it has been. Kept 10. Hard to get on fish, but once the fog left and we got wind it turned out okay. Took this pic of the graph. We see it often that fish will leave the brush and use the boat as cover.
Will the crappie be constantly changing depth and structure all year? Or will they settle into "winter spot" and pretty well stay. The lake I am planning on hitting for crappie has several (around 7) sunken trees scattered over a 400yd stretch in 12-20ft of water. I have never fished in the winter. But if they do go there, will they be there all the time? Or do they roam?
^^^ I'm curious as to the answer of KsRancher's question too. I fish brush in the winter and catch a lot of crappie, but if I don't catch anything I assume they weren't biting. Could be they had just moved and aren't there at that moment? With that said I catch them very regularly in the winter on brush so I'd guess they do spend a lot of time there. I'm not an electronics guy so I only know where they are if I'm catching them.
They roam some. Yesterday my cousin was catching crappie in open water. He caught 28 including a 15" and 16" fish. The other day we checked alot of brush looking for fish. Some had none. Some had a few. None of them had what I like to see this time of year. The maddening thing is when you can see them down there, thump em in the head with a jig, and they still won't bite.
Lakes vary depending on how much structure it has and the quality of shad. I've found they become more stationary after the lake freezes over for a few weeks. As Ksgobbler stated it can be frustrating when you can see them and they wont even think about looking at your jig. Or even worse when they come up and swipe at it but you wont feel a thing. Walleye are notorious for that!
Today was a day that you could hit them in the head with a jig and they dont care. I caught 1 fish in 4 hours. Missed a couple others. Partner caught 4.
Good day today. We kept 30 . Caught well into the triple digits but alot of shorts. Cajun cricket was the color of the day. This graph pic is a single upright tree with fish stacked along the sides. We caught multiple keepers on it.
Not sure whose boot pic that is but it aint mine.
