Chickamauga Crappie 1-6-2007

[DHaun]

My son and I launched from Chester Frost about 11:30am...we both had a busy week and needed to sleep in late this morning. We fished for 2-1/2 hours focusing on docks in 12-18 ft using red/chart and white/chart 1/16oz jigs. We caught 12 fish, 7 kept. Water temp was 50. We are gonna fry a few up for dinner tonight! emoHungry

It was also nice to see Jmax and his son today. Spotted him jigging a silver buddy in one of his favorite spots. He told me a big fish story (hope to see it posted soon) and then I went back into Wolftever to check things out. Water was muddy but I trolled 6 jigs for a few minutes anyway. That did not work out so we decided to head on home about 2:00 and saw a huge school of 2-3" threadfin at the creek mouth getting hammered by the birds. They covered up the depth finder and it went from 18ft to reading 2-3ft deep. I looked down into the water and saw swarms of bait...They were so thick we were snagging them on our spoon jigs as we reeled them to the boat.

 

[drumking]

Nice looking fish and a great looking boy there Dhaun. I'm glad that you got into them a little bit.emoGeezer

 

[rsimms]

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[crappietime68]

Great Looking catch there...Goodlooking son also!!!!

 

[Fishin Fool]

Nice to hear you got into some of them David. Hope to get out there myself next week.

 

[Guest]

Great report there David. Did you fish any of paulj's holes. I thought about going a couple times today as I was 4 wheeling and the first thought was about a couple of pauls docks and how this weather might have them stacked up.

Cheez

 

[DHaun]

Cheez, After the trip I had with paulJ a few weeks ago you know I had to check his docks for any activity. One of them had several good fish on it and the one upstream had none that I could convince to bite. I was able to find another dock near deep water to pull a couple fish from too. It was around high-noon when we were catching these fish so I was thrilled to get what we got. Just fried up a few and they were good!

 

[WLG]

Those are some mighty fine lookin slabs there!!!emoHungry emoWorthy

 

[Guest]

Those sure are some nice slabs. We are gonna give them a shot in the morning.emoThumbsup

 

[Liveliner]

Yeap! that there is two Slabs.emoThumbsup

 

[Biofisher I]

Good looking partner you got there. The fish aren't either.

 

[Fat Albert]

<font color="#3300ff">David, you gotta get the kid some of them dark shades like you wear so you all will be batman and robin.....   good pictures....and report.</font>

 

[paulj]

Couple of nice crappie Dhaun. The one dock you did not do good on usually does not produce unless it is sunny outside. Congrats. If i can get out of the emergency room long enough i might go again one of these days. After seeing those two slabs i have a big itch to get out there.

Paulj

 

[Guest]

That money changes your fishing priorities don't it Paul. Now you know why I don't fish as much as I used too. It's a vicious cycle,we buy toys to fish and hunt with then we must work to pay for them so wedon't get to use them as much.

Cheez

 

[foodsaver]

good looking fish there! As pretty a day as it was Im glad you guys got out to spend time together.