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Crow Terminator

Crow Terminator

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The urge to go fish outweighed my better judgment on a holiday weekend. I kinda thought maybe I could get on the White bass schools and be out of the way of most traffic. Instead...my boat must have had a huge beacon saying RUN OVER ME. Because it sure seemed that way. Plan B... Swung by the crappie trees and a few were on them. With the constant waves, it was near impossible to sit on them. But...wife got a nice
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white crappie that would have been 2+ had she been full of eggs. She weighed 1.99 on my scales. I weighed it and took a Pic and while I was looking for the golden ruler to measure it, my wife tossed it back in. I'm pretty sure that would have been a tarp fish. Since we weren't skunked and not ran over by boats yet, I put it back on the trailer and got the heck away from the lake! Hope everybody had a great weekend.
 
Setterman said:
Nice work! The dang lakes anymore are a hell scape for folks just wanting to fish. Whoever came up with wake board boats I hope they rot in hell
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Wake boats are the worst, but jet skis and ski boats aren't far behind. I guess boat manufacturers had to come up with something to sell to morons that can't catch fish.
 
Ironically it wasn't ski or wake boats that were the bulk of the trouble. It was those super powered tri-toon things. The wake boats were mostly out on the main channel minding their own business and not bothering anybody.

The fish are just starting to get to the summer places on watts bar. In this screen shot you can see the crappie towards the top of the sunken stuff. They look like a lollipop. There's not many there now, but later this summer those tree things will be covered.
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Crow Terminator said:
Ironically it wasn't ski or wake boats that were the bulk of the trouble. It was those super powered tri-toon things. The wake boats were mostly out on the main channel minding their own business and not bothering anybody.

The fish are just starting to get to the summer places on watts bar. In this screen shot you can see the crappie towards the top of the sunken stuff. They look like a lollipop. There's not many there now, but later this summer those tree things will be covered.View attachment 229348
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That down imaging is far, far superior to my Garmin 93SV Echomaps. Granted, my units are not the newer UHD.
 
Pilchard said:
Don't talk about my buddy @Gravey like that!
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Spurhunter said:
Present company excluded, of course.
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We got out for the first time Sunday on Tim's Ford and it was busy as expected. We eased back to a cove and anchored down until a Malibu Wakesetter blaring their speakers eased past us and anchored within bow range. They killed the music for a bit but then I saw a bottle being passed around and eventually the music went stupid loud so we pulled anchor and went elsewhere. They all looked to be in their 20's so on daddy's boat and there were 16 on there (18 counting the 2 that came up on a jet ski). The lake is full of douchebags and it doesn't matter what they're driving.
 
That crappie was at least 14". I measured it using your wife's thumb as a scale since it is on the same plane as the fish. But if you measure her thumb with a ruler from the first to second knuckle, then you can use that distance marked off on a piece of paper, to measure down the length of the fish. It will get you real close to the actual length.

Congrats on the fish.
 

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