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#51 | |
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![]() Join Date: Jan 1998
Location: Sulphur Springs, TX
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#52 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Magnolia
Hunt In: The woods
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#53 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Clear Lake Tx
Hunt In: Old Mexico, Centerville Tx
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#54 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Deer Park, TX
Hunt In: Navarro County
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I love this. I grew up on trinity bay/Galveston bay. Fished the surf as often as I could (still my very favorite), walked a million miles flounder gigging, spent countless hours on a shrimp boat but we have had a place on the lake for many years now and I just don’t have the same enthusiasm for salt as I did when I was younger mostly because of all the reasons you listed. I love my lazy days on the pontoon jugging or trolling, when it gets too hot just drop anchor and jump in and drink some beer. I kinda equate salt water fishing to bow hunting and fresh water to rifle hunting. When I just want to really relax I hit the lake or grab a rifle When I have that urge to grind and I’m on a mission I hit the salt or grab a bow. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro |
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#55 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Deer Park, TX
Hunt In: Navarro County
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#56 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Burleson, Texas
Hunt In: Kick CoViD's tail!
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I've caught a bunch of those over the years. I've never caught any of big size. Most were under legal or barley legal, maybe 11' at the most. I've always known them as "Mowhawks". Was told they are a hybrid back in the '80s. But don't know if that's true or not. |
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#57 | |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Montgomery County
Hunt In: Where ever I can
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#58 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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All the big fish in Table rock we caught were hybrids. Had one just shy of 2 pounds. Most are small like Conroe crappie though! ![]() |
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#59 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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#60 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Dallas
Hunt In: Corsicana (Navarro County)
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Although this isn't as tempting as some recent pics! Here is tonight's dinner. Crappie cakes and parmasean crusted crappie in the air fryer. Only complaint is I didn't have any leftovers!
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#61 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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#62 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Magnolia
Hunt In: The woods
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#63 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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#64 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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OK I definitely need that crappie cake recipe. |
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#65 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Montalba
Hunt In: Anderson County
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Post the recipe and cooking time on the parmesan air fryer recipe if you don't mind.
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#66 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Casper,Tx
Hunt In: Nacogdoches,Tx
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For the past couple of years we have just been using goldfish from Petco since there are no minnow places around us. .15/piece = 80crappie....$12
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#67 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
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We pulled 150#'s of crappie out of my pond last year. The biologist I use said I should have taken another 100#'s.
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#68 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Forney
Hunt In: Oklahoma and Angelina County
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We are going to try Fork again on Saturday. This is our second trip and the first one wasnt productive. My 9yo daughter wants to catch some fish! Hopefully, I can figure out where they are hiding this time.
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#69 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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#70 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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I haven’t been on Fork in a while but if I was going Sunday and had Livescope I would fish timber in the main river channel in 50-60’ of water fishing 20-40’ down. If I didn’t I would be dragging minnows on the bottom off SRA. Little Caney or the coffer dam
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#71 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: East Texas
Hunt In: Texas Public Lands
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The 2" Bobby Garlands are my choice for crappie. To get 100 out of a pond should not take long at all. At the catch rate in my pond of 10/hour/person less than a day. Now how deep is your pond and do you have brush piles and or trees laydowns or standing? Mine are on the deeper end on standing timber right now but my pond is only 1.5 acres.
On the subject of fresh vs. salt I have been greeted by girls with much less on than above when night fishing Conroe. Since me and my fishing buddy are happily married men, we just smiled and kept on fishing. It is my 32nd anniversary today too. |
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#72 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Casper,Tx
Hunt In: Nacogdoches,Tx
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I thought my 3.2lb crappie was a gooden....but I told my coworker from Louisiana and he said that isn't big enough to shake a stick at. Why is it we don't get them upwards of 5lbs here in Texas like they do in other states?
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#73 |
Four Point
Join Date: Jan 2019
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Anyone know anything about the Humminbird Mega Live that is supposed to compete with Livescope? All I could find was that it didn't need a black box and would work with some of the existing graphs.
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#74 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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#75 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Texas
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#76 | |
Four Point
Join Date: Jan 2019
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#77 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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This is probably about the longest I’ve been without fishing! It’s been 3 weeks I think? Tough out there today! Couple over 2 witty big fish of 2.44 but not near enough!! Feels good to be back on the water though. Work tomorrow and fish a couple days and repeat!!
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#78 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Dallas
Hunt In: Corsicana (Navarro County)
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Hope the winds die down on LOP for Saturday! Go get em slew!
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#79 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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Most the people I meet that catch 3 pounders all the time don’t have a scale. I would imagine the 5 pound folks do too. Hell the world record was 5 something I think caught out a pond in Tennessee 2 years ago. 3.2 is a stud! There’s old *** men that have crappiecfished their whole lives gonna go to their grave not catching one that big!
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#80 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Burleson, Texas
Hunt In: Kick CoViD's tail!
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My truck engine gave up over the Christmas holidays, with 278k on a 350ic that's nver been rebuilt. So, I haven't been out to do anything outdoors. My little car ain't big enough to put my game cart in to deer hunt public land on foot. And it certainly ain't big enough to pull my boat.
![]() I did hire an engine builder over the holidays, to build an LS 5.3 to replace that old wore out 5.7. I'm not sure the old truck is going to know how to act once it has 125-150 more HP than the rated 210 it came with, from a basically stock and built to factory spec 5.3 with mild cam. I've been looking for a temp replacement truck in the mean time so I can still get out till I get the old white truck back on the road. I may have found one. But it's still going to be 2 more weeks before I can get out in it~! (pulling my hair out ![]() Come Feb though, I'll be on the fish!~! (I hope ![]() |
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#81 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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#82 | |
Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Comfort, TX
Hunt In: Cotulla, TX
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Freshwater=high fence Saltwater=low fence Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#83 | |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Casper,Tx
Hunt In: Nacogdoches,Tx
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#84 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Braunfels
Hunt In: Texas
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I plan to try my hand at Crappies this year my trolling motor and HDS units cost more than my boat just need to figure out how to get started.
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#85 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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#86 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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I still feel like I’m bouncing up and down! What a brutal day. We only caught 12 fish today but managed 13.74 on 7 and that was good enough for 3rd place. Got 2 good fish tangled in trees that got off today and had 2 others just come off. Rescheduled Fridays trip to wind and cancelled tomorrow’s. 2021 isn’t starting out too well on that side! I’ve cancelled or rescheduled every trip so far because of wind!
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#87 |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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We managed a few today. Not any big ones but I doubt we’ll ever see any big ones again. Long story.
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#88 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Casper,Tx
Hunt In: Nacogdoches,Tx
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#89 |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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Yes sir. My mom and her husband only take out like 10 a year so they’re likely overpopulated. But either want to talk about how to manage the pond effectively. In their minds, they want numbers so the kids can catch lots of fish. Oh well.
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#90 | |
Administrator
![]() Join Date: Jan 1998
Location: Sulphur Springs, TX
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#91 |
Six Point
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Atascocita,Tx
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Pretty slow this morning.
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#92 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: New Braunfels
Hunt In: Texas
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Couple of bass will reduce the crappie fry Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk |
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#93 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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Me n little man snuck out for a couple hours! Caught a few. Too windy to fish where I wanted. He did lose a monster though. He was pretty pouty about it but we laughed it off and had some Sonic pretzel twists and cinnasnacks and he paid!!
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#94 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Shepherd
Hunt In: East Texas
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Sausage fest is over back on the lake
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#95 |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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We managed another 10. Bite was slooooooow today.
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#96 | |
Ten Point
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Katy, TX
Hunt In: New Ulm and Pearsall
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Actually I think the opposite is true. They have too many crappie that are eating everything. They have bass that 4-5 years ago were great size. Now, you’re lucky to catch anything but 12-14” ones. They need to take out 100# or more each year and they take out about 10 fish. It’s only when I come that any numbers are taken out. And I haven’t made a dent in them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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#97 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2016
Location: Dallas
Hunt In: Corsicana (Navarro County)
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Congrats on the finish Slew! Tough conditions from what I saw. Sounds like we are due for a few calm days!
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#98 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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#99 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Northeast TX
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do we have a jig maker/seller on TBH?
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#100 |
Pope & Young
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Lindale, TX
Hunt In: nowhere close to home
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