Muskrat, Chickamauga Lake, mixed bag / 2 TARP crappie, 7-11-13, Debbie

[Muskrat]

After going stir crazy from all of the rain Deb and I squeezed in a few hours of fishing today. I was about out of gas and didn't have my fishfinder so we just fished one rocky bank and point that produced over 30 crappie...4 channel cats...7 yellow bass...9 bream...1 drum. I also lost a nice bass that I almost had in the boat. We fished from 11:30 until 3:30. A lot of shad were on top of the water while it was cloudy and the crappie were hanging around them in about 10-15 feet of water. The bite slowed around 1:30 but really picked up about 2:30 when the shad were all over the top of the water again even in full sunshine. I caught a 14 inch crappie in 8-10 feet and about 10 minutes later caught a 14.25 inch crappie in about the same spot. Most of the crappie caught during that 45 minute span were keeper size. Debbie caught the most crappie and cats but I lucked up with the two TARPS. We used 1/24 and 1/32 oz. BG and curly tail jigs casting toward the bank but over half of the fish were caught vertical fishing over a drop-off with brushpiles on 1/16 oz. jigs tipped with minnows.

 

[the Wolftever Kid]

Wow! Nice fish.

 

[Jammer]

Great Report!!

 

[cuonthelake]

I was wondering where your summer reports where emoPoke ....WTG, now tell the truth, Deb caught those crappie, right? emoBigsmile

 

[drumking]

emoThumbsup emoBigsmile emoGeezer

 

[EricM]

Wow, nice!

 

[BassERT]

Very good!! emoThumbsup

emoCool

 

[Labman]

Deb ALWAYS catches all the big crappie, but is kind enough to let Jeff pose for a picture occasionally. emoToast Nice fish, but you need to work on the pictures, lol. That is a very good catch with the water going up and down every day. Thanks for posting.

Regards, Norman

 

[Kingfish]

Very nice. Congrats on the TARP Crappie. emoThumbsup

 

[takenoprisoners]

Great report. I really need to hit the water with someone with experience so I can learn some stuff. Soon!

 

[Nauticman]

WTG on the TARPs!

 

[Muskrat]

cuonthelake - 7/11/2013 7:49 PM

I was wondering where your summer reports where emoPoke ....WTG, now tell the truth, Deb caught those crappie, right? emoBigsmile

Hi Candi. Jeff wanted me to tell both you and Norman that he caught the two big crappie yesterday. I'm not actually saying he caught them but he wanted me to tell you that. emoPoke I just saw his report and didn't see him mention that I caught 7 crappie before he caught his first one. ~ Debbie

 

[BILL DANTZ]

Congrats to you both, thanks for posting.