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11/4/13 :With wind chill the air temp ranged from low 30's to low 40's. Fished SE end of lake by dam facing the NE wind ,from 10am till 2:30pm .65 fish total ,4 species
SPOT ONE: Best Fish per species ,were 12 " and unbelievably wide Crappie(my favorite fish of the day),10.5" White Perch ,11" Yellow Perch and about an 8" Male Bluegill . Started off with Tandem white Buck tail jig
rig. Immediately caught a Crappie around 11"and a few Yellow Perch .Fingers were cold so I put on mittens over fingerless gloves and searched the shore line for Mussels . Found a huge one .First time fishing with mussels ,worked great ! I tipped the Tandem rig jigs with Mussel bits .My first of three tandems was a Yellow on bottom jig and a white on top . Got two other tandem Yellows later. Experimented, tipping both jigs, and just tipping bottom jig and got several fish on upper jig /untipped , as well as lower jig tipped . Caught 4 species ,Crappie ,Yellow Perch, White Perch and Bluegills .Switched over from white Btails to Chartreuse Btail with 1" Chartreuse twister tails .Kept catching . Switched to and caught a few on the float rig . One Yellow Perch kept for cut bait after no more mussels were found. Perch eye worked great on the float /Jig rig. In the meantime a few casts with a Rattlin' Rap scored zip.
SPOT TWO: Mostly slip floating and the Crappie loved the Squirrel tail/chartreuse twister tail/Perch eye offering . Rip rap with a band of windblown leaves right up against the end of the lake was the ambush point for Crappie and Yellow Perch. Caught about 5 nice heavy and thick Crappie 11" - 13" and then it was all Yellow Perch besides perhaps another Crappie or two . Tried perch roe on tandem rig jigs and caught. the 3rd double came at spot two. A few fish caught on 10th oz. Thunderbolt spoon tipped with perch stomach or flesh. All fish released but I may regret that !

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Comment by John Sheehan on November 4, 2013 at 6:09pm

Tooty I was amazed at the width of this fish !Wider than the inch longer fish I caught later and wider than another this length .It expect it 's  the best 12 "Crappie I've ever  caught .The only one I felt I needed to stop fishin' to actually weigh . 1LB.1 OZ.

Comment by DAVID L EITUTIS on November 4, 2013 at 6:04pm

MAN NICE CRAPPIE JOHN !!!!!!! LOOKS THICK TO ME BECAUSE OF THE ROUNDNESS UP ON IT'S BACK BY THE FIN , CONGRATS..........

Comment by John Sheehan on November 4, 2013 at 5:48pm

Thanks for noticing Jim . Really cool fish .

Comment by Jim Gronaw on November 4, 2013 at 5:26pm

Excellent fish...bona -fide slab!

Comment by John Sheehan on November 4, 2013 at 4:49pm

Fav fish of the day .An inch shorter than the 13" Crappie I caught later, but this guy had WIDE that doesn't show in the photo .At 1#.1 oz. I swear it was heavier than the 13" .

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