Jmax, Chick, Bass, 1/16/17, Strato-G

[Jmax]

Jerry and I have known each other for years and never fished together. He had mentioned his boat was out of order and being worked on so I gave him a holler to see if he would like to fill the back of mine. He was like, "Where we meeting and what time." emoBigsmile Hit the water at the Chick and was amazed at how many folks were there. emoEek I had forgot about so many people being off since it was MLK day. It was crowded like a Saturday in April. emoCrazy

One thing good about it is everyone had a different idea on where to go and how deep to fish. No one area or place we went was all that packed. emoThumbsup Temp was great, mid 60s on us and mid 50s in the water. I did wish for a change we had a little wind. It was so calm I think it was hurting the bite. We had a decent day, no one place did we load the boat but we had nine large mouth, one crappie, one white, two yellows and a shad. emoBigsmile Had three shorts and six keepers. Best five would have been around 14 to 15 pounds. Had one a little over four, two a little over three and the other three keepers were in the two pound range. All our fish were caught on traps, that was the only thing we could get them to hit.

Great company today, thanks for tagging along Jerry. emoToast Jmax

Here are a couple of our better ones.

 

[Captain Hazmat]

Great report

 

[Strato-G]

emoThumbsup Great day, only woulda been better if some bigguns wulda played. emoDoh They didn't so we played with the ones that would...u know, some friends just wanna not play

It was slow, little testy trying to get something to find our lures... emoPlease Some finally latched on ,as JMax said...some keeeprs & some not. That makes a good day better.

emoThanks JMax, I enjoyed a long time coming day of your company, look to do it again sometime..... emoGeezer emoUSA

 

[Henderson1976]

Good day, thx for the report!

 

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You sure have a nack for figuring those fish out Jim. Congrads

 

[occasionalfisher]

A good day in January to go glad you guys had fun.

 

[Allison2002]

good report and a day of fishing I didn't catch a lot today but had fun.

 

[porkchop-xb]

good report and nice fish

 

[Creekrunner6]

Looks like a good day, Thanks for the report

 

[jones]

What kind of crankbait rod do you use for the 6xd and up. I thought about the medium heavy duckett rod at academy for 100 bucks

 

[Jmax]

Good choice, I use a med/heavy ghost duckett rod. I believe it is a seven footer.

 

[jones]

Ok thanks

 

[porthos33]

Hey Jones, Duckett site says that rod you are looking at is good for Cb's up to 16ft. It would work but Veritas has one that is the next step up for the 17-20ft range and they are on sale for 79. It is a 7'11 heavy with the moderate taper. Also has a 3 year warranty instead of a one year for the ghost. One other thing is that the handle is 2inches longer so you can get more torque to throw it farther.

 

[Muskrat]

Good trip. emoThumbsup

 

[jones]

Where are they on sale at?

 

[Jmax]

jones - 1/20/2017 5:56 AM

Where are they on sale at?

Those rods are Garcia rods and are carried by Bass Pro, I would bet he is talking about there. emoScratch Jmax