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This bite never got going and the bullhead bite picked up and shut the few crappie down in the creek basin......

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Comment by jim cosgrove on January 25, 2015 at 7:58pm

they kinda bleach out here.i catch seeds in the spring that have hardly any color.bass crappies gills all the same.

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 25, 2015 at 7:53pm

Sunlight? Could be, I guess. Stupid fish don't know that tanning is bad for you now... ;^>

Comment by jim cosgrove on January 25, 2015 at 7:46pm

andy- they all turn pale up north here .not so much when ice fishing but when the thaw comes.lack of sun light?

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 25, 2015 at 7:43pm

The gills in my neighborhood pond are pretty ghostly right now (see my latest blog entry) and if you look on my photos at my kids with a couple from the same pond in warm weather they are very dark. I think it is what they have been eating in the recent past.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on January 25, 2015 at 7:34pm

Perosnally I think it's all enviornment myself

Comment by Slip Sinker on January 25, 2015 at 7:30pm

nice Jeff... i used to think the lightened color was due to the ice... in your case cold water.... im catching silvery pearl colored gills under the ice ... but look at clayton catching those dark monsters... many more environmental factors are probably the most significant factors. possibly genetics also.

Comment by Andy is OptiMystic on January 25, 2015 at 7:14pm

6 like that in an afternoon is not awful in my book. Especially with the bream and kitties thrown in.

Comment by carl hendrix on January 25, 2015 at 6:53pm

sounds like you had a good day any way Jeff!!

Comment by Jeffrey D. Abney on January 25, 2015 at 6:45pm

Thanks Tooty....thought I was on my way to a 20 fish limit of Black Crappie......started catching one bullhead after another and the crappie bite ended......all good......I was releasing everything today anyway......

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on January 25, 2015 at 3:18pm

Nice Crappie Jeffrey and I'd sure like to catch a few dozen of those for sure !!!!!!! Just got done having company here and before that plowed snow again ! Not much snow this time only bout an 1 1/2" or so but roads were slippery today for sure....

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