Chickamauga Crappie 12-18-06

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I invited Dhaun to go with me and do some winter crappie fishing today. The weather was wonderful. We started fishing today a little after 7 and fished till a little after 12. The day started off kinda slow. We ended up catching 40 keepers today with several really nice slabs. We caught most of our fish from 8-15ft on 1/32 oz red/yellow/yellow jiffy jigs. It was kinda slow till around 11 a.m. when the crappie decided to eat. We where catching them almost every cast it seemed like. There where several times when we both had one on at the same time. I had a physical therapy appointment at 1 that ended up being cancelled. If I would have known they cancelled it we could have stayed longer and probably caught our limit. Thanks for going Dhaun, had a blast.

Paulj
 

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Great catch today, Paulj. 2jigs and I bombed out downriver this morning.

Oh, by the way, the best movement time for this morning according to my casio watch was 10:55. Don't tell Rsimms though, cause he don't believe that this stufff works.emoBigsmile emoGeezer
 
Thanks for the trip PaulJ! You were a great guide and put us right on some great hot spots. Its not hard to tell you have put in the necessary time on the water to locate and understand whats going on with the fish. I can get addicted to this kind of fishing real quick catching them like we did today...lots of line watching involved waiting on that tap...subtle changes in weight and color making a difference. I just cleaned a nice mess and probably going to eat a few tonight or sometime this week when I get my kids! emoThumbsup

Drumking, I mentioned your name after the fish turned on like they did. We had already caught a quite a few from this spot and things had slowed down. It went from barely feeling them hit the lure to some really aggressive feeding with larger fish. One thing I pondered is whether new fish showed up or previously inactive fish started to feed. It seemed like we had almost fished the spot out and then suddenly a whole new school showed up! Either way we had a blast with several double hook-ups.

After that experience I was wondering what the moon times may have been today. I still cannot figure out from the internet how to get the major time (I think it was moon transit) for this time zone...need to look more. I can get moonrise and moonset for our time zone but still looking for the others. Of course being out there on a Monday morning with fewer boats dialed right in on the fish with a great guide helped a bunch too! emoBigsmile
 
drumking - 12/18/2006 5:53 PM Great catch today, Paulj. 2jigs and I bombed out downriver this morning. Oh, by the way, the best movement time for this morning according to my casio watch was 10:55. Don't tell Rsimms though, cause he don't believe that this stufff works.emoBigsmile emoGeezer
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<font color="#6600ff">I have been thinking a great deal about this post...DK and 2jigs bombed???? DK,  he may be a jinx... think about it..  you never miss catching crappie.  you are the king... that's just my .02 worth...hahaha
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<font color="#6600ff">BTW, Paulj and DHaun that is a good report and nice pictures.  yum,yum....</font></p>
 
Congrats fellas! Im just glad that Dhaun is making hte best of his time away from the office! Im off beginning 12 day Wednesday through basically the 4th if yuo want to try to get out PM me. Ill be in Knoxville beginning Saturday through Thursday, other than that I should be game.
 
paulj... you tried to hide it with those monster crappie, but by golly I can still see that "GIA" in GEORGIA. So do you really like them Dawgs, or is that just your official "crappie" shirt? emoBigsmile Good job... if you can put DHaun on fish, you must be good. emoWorthy
 
Great catch!!emoThumbsup I fished this afternoon till dark and never found that feeding frenzee! Caught 3 Bass over 15 and a few yellow bass but NO Crappie. Great report!
 
Drumking, I never paid any attention to the moon thing but after today I am going to try. It was as if someone flipped a light swith on. You say it was 10:55 and it was right around that time when they turned on. I can't say that was it exactly because there was also a little current that started flowing. Richard why don't you like my dawgs? I guess it is kinda dangerous wearing a Georgia shirt fishing in TN. As long as the crappie don't care I will continue to wear them. Richard you never know if you put one on you might catch more fish. I did not mearsure our longest fish and I don't know if Dhaun did either. I can tell you that the slabs we caught where about to bust because they had so many minnows in their stomach.

paulj
 
Fat Albert - 12/18/2006 7:22 PM



drumking - 12/18/2006 5:53 PM Great catch today, Paulj. 2jigs and I bombed out downriver this morning. Oh, by the way, the best movement time for this morning according to my casio watch was 10:55. Don't tell Rsimms though, cause he don't believe that this stufff works.emoBigsmile emoGeezer
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<font color="#6600ff">I have been thinking a great deal about this post...DK and 2jigs bombed???? DK,  he may be a jinx... think about it..  you never miss catching crappie.  you are the king... that's just my .02 worth...

FA, we weren't fishing for Crappie this morning from the riverpark. We were jigging spoons, throwing jigs, etc. We got out late morning and were just looking as neither one of knows anything about fishing below Chick. 2jigs did get his line slimed this morning and caught a small spot. Late in the afternoon, we left and put in the lake and caught a couple more small fish.
 
I figured that paul was slaying the crappie again. He called my cell phone at 12:04 and the only time he calls me is when he wants to rub it in about his fish when he knows I'm working.
Great catch and great report guys.

Cheez
 
What an outstanding morning trip. Way to go. With that many to clean an electric knife would be a must. The weather and wind was good for throwing jigs. Do you guys tie on 2 of them ever?emoThumbsup
 
Nice fish guys! I've went now for the last 2 times and bombed out! Glad to see someone is catching them. Dhaun you are right, he has had to put in some time to find them like that. I'm going to have to give it a shot up that way.
 
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