polo-dog
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We drove home from St. Louis today and it snowed on us off and on the whole way home. I had seen that the weather channel showed a front moving slowly Eastward and we went right through it today. It was snowing hard and 23 degrees in Nashville when we went through and when we got home today at 5:30 it was 32 degrees here and no snow. The wife had something that she had to get to tonight and I figured that the crappie might turn on like crazy with the front just behind us and I was right. I got to my spot at about 6pm and fished as long as I could stand it. I caught a fish on the first 5 casts even though I never saw the bites because of the huge bow in my line from the wind. The only indication of a fish was the line being too tight when I started reeling after a pause. The wind was so hard and cold that my fingers, even though I wore my winter gloves over Nitrile gloves, became so cold that I couldn't feel the tips other than terrible pain. What a wimp, huh? Ice was forming on my winter gloves told me that the wind chill was pretty bad. I finally quit after 40 minutes as I could no longer reposition the bait on the hook with my gloves on as my fingers wouldn't do what I wanted them to do. I ended up with 10 good slabs and had 3 or 4 pull off and one broke the line as I hauled him/her into the boat. Retying and trying to keep the boat in position was keeping me from getting good casts into the prime areas but I know the fish were just stacked there. The fish have been active from time to time at the hole that I went to but not nearly so active as today. I just looked at the weather channel again and the edge of the front has just gotten to us. If you remember, a couple of weeks ago, before the big snow we had, I went right before the snow hit and the bite was just the same, crazy! Today I had both the front coming and dusk and that really turned them on. I wish that I could have fished the area better but the wind was so bad and my fingers so numb that I just couldn't get good casts and presentations in. I think that a fish a minute could have been possible if the conditions for me had been better. It was a painful 30 minutes or so but I just didn't want to stop until I just had to. Once my hands thaw out I will go down and get a pic. I did have 3 over 13 inches and most all but one was over 12 inches. Spring will be here soon and fair weather will be nice for a change!
