Palisade slabs are in

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:48 am

So last night I get to the spot and as usual for the 7th straight year everything plays out like normal.
I did talk to a local that said the ice went out on tues. so now it's fri.
& the fish are in.
Just like always I could not find them anywhere ,but where the turtles hang out.
We had been work some deeper water & all of a sudden some pike chases a school of crappie across the surface of the water right next to the shore.
Dude I exclaimed,did you see those crappie backs.Ya he said.Pull anchor I ordered and we slid in to them.
It was getting late ,but as the years have shown me I'll get a few & a few I did.
Rolled a couple too,Rick did as well but he caught that pike up there.

So it rained last night & is right now ,but it should taper off.
This is good for the water level plus it will help that water warm up.
Shoot there was still ice on the main lake floating around & piled up on the shore.
As we decided to leave & hit the mouth of the creek I nailed a nice bass that spun my skiff around. Too fun & you should have seen the creek boiling with fish migrating through.
I get freakin excited when I see this movement.
We had to push fish outta the way to get through the dang thing.
I'm not kidding when I say the whole creek was boiling with fish.
It was also loaded with minnows so those fish must follow them in to the other side.
I've seen this 3 years in a row on the 3rd day after ice out right at dusk.
It's like clockwork almost.
I'll be going back in today around 2 bells and this time we will hook up on several fish.
By this time next weekend it'll be one of those 500 fish outttings between 2 guys.
Now where's my advil?
I'm not kidding when I say you can get a sore elbow from the fighting!
This is just the begging with a thousand fish to catch before walleye openers!
Oh,T.H.E. Jig ROCKS!

Hoggie saw this yesterday with guys pulling up and getting one here and there while he was smokin the fish 1 after another.
He has had 2 weeks of open water & the water is warmer so the fish are a tad more agressive.
I'm just getting into open water & the temp is 40 degree water.
Most guys for this 1st week will have a tough time catching 10 while Rick & I will be in constant doubles!

It's all about downsizing for these next 3 weeks.Once that water hits 55-65 you can go bigger ,but not now.
I'll be back with pictures and video from this weekend to show you what I'm talking about.
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Keith"CrappieKeith"Nelson

Post by **Tip-up** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:06 pm

All these reports are getting me a bit exited

Glad to hear Dave did well and got into a few schools too

T.H.E jig will be the first bait to be tossed..Can't wait

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 8:37 am

Where to start.My head is still spinning.
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OK I got it,bagged work at 3 bells .My son and Dad & I hit my hole for what I thought would be good ,but so so.

I was soooooo wrong!

We caught 100's of fish.

The bass were coming..Do I love those fighters,my son does too!

The water was 50 on the nuts and we were work 2-4 feet of water.
You can tell that the water is warming,look at how black the males are getting.

T.H.E. jig was working really well.
Too well ,I caught another bass after I do not know how many I reared on & snapped off.I know I should have retied ,but I had more.
Well anyway I switched to loby's Drag-n Mags & never skipped a beat.

They inhaled that plastic like no tommorow.Like it was there last meal.
I strapped on the Drag-n Mag onto a 32nd oz jig that was white with orange eyes and a collar.

I know the 1st one caught 30 fish and was in the mood for more ,but like earlier I had more & a pike snipped it off.
Well I retied in about 45 seconds and went back to drilling them again.
To be honest I'm glad I sent them home with the 20 we kept &as my arms hurt & this post is draing what I have left.Sure is nice to not have to clean fish.
had to leave a few for seed anyway.

I had Sunday open yet & I asked if those two giggling girls wanted some more abuse.I think you know the answer to that.
I also got a firm handshake and a wink from pops,so cool.

As we drove back across the lake I looked back to say goodnight , this is what she said back.

See ya soon!

Post by **OBD** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:54 pm

Thanks for sharing CrappieKeith! I love that last picture!

Got your message, thanks! Looking foward to try out that jig very soon!

Post by **Abraxus** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:47 pm

Those Crappy are huge!

Post by **SALMON** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:17 am

wow.. you really got some good ones there

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:48 am

I've posted these already ,but maybe you missed them.

I caught a bunch of bulls like this yesterday too.

this was a great 9 hours on the water .
a great treat as we leave.

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Mon May 07, 2007 10:13 pm

Rick & I went back to my honey hole.
It rained lightly all day & the humidity was up.
We both though just maybe the bigger fish would have moved back in today & you know what.
BINGO ,we were right.Sure the little guys were in too.

But so were the bigger fish.
I know we caught 80-100 fish in 3 hours.

We kept just about all males which were turning black.
We had the lake to ourselves and boy was it peacefull yet very exciting.

The blue & yellow was really drilling them.

The Drag-nMag nailed a few mules as well.

Here's Rick with a few.

Here's one happy fisherman.
It was such a joy not having gail force winds to deal with.

We kept a good meal for the both of us and let the rest go.

The geese were dumping in.The ospreys were fishing.There were mallards and woodies buzzing us.We saw 30 some deer on the way home & there were rabbits galore scooting around dodging us on the way out.
Nothing beats being in the middle of heaven.
I'm still pumped from the trip.
Go get em guy's.

Oh we caught some more nice gills over the weekend.
After trying to find them and almost leaving we hit 1 more spot and bingo ,my 1st one.

We really got giddy once we were all drilling them.

Back to today.
As we left I thought this was a nice sight.

See ya ole girl!

Post by **Tip-up** » Tue May 08, 2007 6:13 am

Bulls

Some massive gills out your way for sure Keith

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:05 am

Those are not even the big ones!
I've released some 12-13 inch bull gills in years past.

Post by **Swamp-Donkey** » Fri May 18, 2007 1:38 pm

Nice Bluegills there buddy! That's what I'll be doing this weekend. I've got to open up the cottage, unfortunately there's no Crappy, but there are a pile of huge gills. How about a friendly little big fish wager? I'll post some pics after the weekend.

Tight lines, Cheers!

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Fri May 18, 2007 1:51 pm

I was sorta done chasing them now that the eyes are open to catch ,but I think I could slide in for 1 last go around.
What did you have in mind?

When it comes to a fight,there is no better fight than a blue gill especialy on u.l. gear OMG! Boy do they dig.

I'll have to rig up with 8 test to drag them outta the cabbage.

Post by **wolfe** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:38 pm

Just RIDICULOUSLY big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

W.

Post by **moirariverbandit** » Mon May 21, 2007 9:23 pm

Gotta make a trip down your way at least once in my life to try out some of your waters.

Post by **CrappieKeith** » Tue May 22, 2007 2:59 pm

Anytime!
I'll always get you into them ,even if it kills me.
I just got word about some dandys just to the south of me.I'm thinking about going this weekend.

Fish-Hawk.Net

Palisade slabs are in

Palisade slabs are in

caught 100's

Huge!

Nice "gill report