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Post by Buckrub on Jul 12, 2009 9:13:57 GMT -5
I went back yesterday in the OPPRESSIVE HEAT (quit at noon, should have quit at 10:00) and the big ones had left the country and the frenzy was over. I had to catch 5 for every one I kept, and the ones I kept I was ashamed of (and will be till I eat 'em). I did catch a 4 lb catfish on a crappie pole, alone, and it took me over 10 minutes to get him into the net. So, I had enough meat to clean and it was worth the trip. But it's a good spot, and y'all have been on my case for not telling y'all where it's at, so my guilty crappie conscience has gotten the best of me and I'm gonna show you persackly where it is. In fact, I'm gonna show you the exact, specific location! RIGHT HERE:  Now, don't tell me I ain't a nice guy no' mo'..........I'm showin' y'all the exact spot I have been going to. So there! |
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Post by KerryB on Jul 12, 2009 9:24:02 GMT -5
Yes sir! I know exactly where that is! Now that is shallow..........i hardly ever even try that spot because it's so shallow! I got my boat stuck in the mud there this morning.................... ;D ;D
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Post by Buckrub on Jul 12, 2009 9:34:03 GMT -5
The outside edge of the treetop is in about 6.5 feet of water. Two months ago it was in THIRTY feet of water (and you had to have a GPS to find it). The entire bay that this is in isn't more than 8 feet deep at the deepest channel spot. It's actually an old oxbow of a river that makes a lake (all connected) about 1 mile downstream. You can traverse the entire oxbow, hit the river and go up and down it, and boat out into the main lake also. Lots of different structure. Long way from civilization. Fewer people here than at most 'pretty' lakes. NO Sea Doos! NO Skiing. Big plus. Just a bunch of old snaggletoothed fishermen.
The fish are being caught about 3-4 feet deep. This defies every bit of logic I have ever learned in 40 years of crappie fishing. The water temp is 90 degrees or more. Fish should be laying on their side sunbathing, or sitting on the bottom trying to catch their breath. Even right up next to shore at the base of the tree, it's still 4 feet deep. That's where I caught the big old catfish.
The water clarity is really turbid because the level has fluctuated with the floods so much in the last few months. It's never clear, but it is usually much clearer than this. It took the fish a bit to find the minnows, but they found 'em somehow.
Other crazy thing...........this spot (and there are about 3 more similar ones within 1/2 mile of there) is that all spring when the weather was great, this spot produced nothing. Not one fish. Not a bite.
Now that it's a million degrees centigrade outside, they start hitting. I give up trying to figure out fish.
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Post by boarhog on Jul 12, 2009 17:15:30 GMT -5
And wimmin!
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Post by Buckrub on Jul 19, 2009 8:41:52 GMT -5
Wimmin are impossible. Fish are just unlikely.
They're still on the tree, though the fervor and the size are both gone. Caught close to two limits there yesterday, but only about 1/3 of that came from 'the tree'. Had to move around and find other trees, mostly much smaller, which had 1 or 2 or 3 fish each.....but we found 'em, till we ran out of minnows and went home. Also caught 2 more big catfish on crappie pole, big enough that you just hang on and hope!
Good day.
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Post by Buckrub on Jul 27, 2009 7:59:36 GMT -5
Caught 100, kept 25 more last Saturday, but now they're scattered in similar blowdowns all over the area. And yes, I'm rubbing it in, in case you haven't noticed!  Reason? Cause this is ONE RARE EVENT, I'll tell ya for sure! |
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Reason? Cause this is ONE RARE EVENT, I'll tell ya for sure!