Crappie Afternoon

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Crappie Afternoon

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Today was my first day of Christmas vacation & what a start! Between coaching hockey & home renovations fishing had to take a back seat for a few months. The initial plan was to jig for some BOQ walleye but after several debates my buddy said let's go fish a back lake for some Gators, Gills & Crappie. I'm all in!
Unsure of the ice levels we decided to head out in the light & hope for safe ice. After an 1.5hr drive through the backwoods we arrived at the little lake to find 5" of solid black ice covered in 2" of snow. We set up in 20-26' of water, the flashers were glowing as soon as the transducer hit the water. It wasn't long before we easily iced 50 Gills some true brutes along with 10 OOS Largies! Around 3:30pm we decided to head shallower & search for some Crappies my buddy E already had 4 giants in a bag with about 20 giant Gills. Again the same thing as soon as the transducer hit the water it was covered in blobs. From first drop till the last drop we pounded Crappie 46 between 2 of us in about 2.5hrs, I've never experienced so much Crappie action with such size. We ended having one hell of a Crappie afternoon!
Green frosted glow jigs tipped with Gulp alive minnows frys was the winning combo!

The only gator of the day
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E Man with a couple Slobo Slabs
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Me with a couple,
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My half of the of the haul,
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Best early Christmas present in awhile!
MERRY CHRISTMAS to All!
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Now that's a pre X-Mas gift for anyone!!!!! Wicked going lads, glad you guys found safe ice and some serious slabs!!!

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Nice! Hope the rest of the holiday goes as well :)
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im dieing for a good crappie bite..
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Right on guy's! You put on a clinic!!! Holy Crap .....Lol and thanks for sharing you're choice of baits that you had success with.

Happy Holidays
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Nice outing brotha
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Nice bag of fish Justin , congrats great way to start ice season
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Congrats on the slab Crappie and great pics
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and here I am, regretting the end of deer season and thinking it MIGHT be time to start thinking about ice fishing...............

and HOLY CATS!!!! I am late!!!!!

Nice catch!

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Nice shootin boys! Calico's galore.

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That's a great start. So few are posting 'em up like that I'm guessing you got it figured out first. :wink: Solid slabbin!
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Crappie dreams right there! A little bit of first ice magic for ya.
Walleye'm fishing, you're sleeping.
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Nice!! Finding the flat buggers under the ice can be tough... and you got that figured out!!
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Very Nice
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