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Big Sandy fishing 8/14-15

Me and Jack got up north for a bit of crappie chasing. We met up with crappie keith and Boone, and they showed us where the action was. light jigs tight to visable cover put most of our fish in the boat.



I love the color of the crappies in this lake, some are golden, and some are darker green, like this one.



I also went out in Keiths boat on another lake looking for walleyes. though eyes were not on the menue for me, I got some pics, and enjoyed riding around in CKs boat and trying to dodge rain showers.

These clouds looked ominous, but only produced a few showers and some wind, but no lightning or thunder til they were well past us.









More crappie action

7-3 multispecies action

I got into some multi species action pitching 1/16th ounce jigs with plastic slider grubs and 2 1/2 inch gulp alive minnows around the edges of weeds that were getting hit good by the wind. I got a coupple of good walleyes, bass and lots of panfish. Depths of 5 to 12 ft were best and I got some down to 17.
















I am going up to GEM camp for the week so I will not be on the internet all week. have a great week everyone!

went for walleyes, got bass

I tried for some walleyes on both the outside and inside weedlines and hard to soft bottom transitions, working a red glow tube on a leadhead. I found bass everywhere willing to bite, and a few small crappies.






"smallmouth" bass? hehe

After Work Pond hopping

I was out in the west metro waiting in my pickup to see if I would get anymore work, when I decided to get out and walk around by a small lake that I drive by all the time but never seen to much fishing going on. I was at a park and saw thick green weeds all around making it hard for shore fishing, but i rounded the bend and found a small dock. I walked out to the end and saw some tiny young of the year sunfish darting about, then I saw something swirl in the lilly pads! I went back to the truck and got my rod, rigged it up with a jig and a yellow glow tube, and gave it a go. i was hoping it would hold some big green sunfish, since it was a shallow pond known to winterkill.
I flicked it under the dock and nailed this nice hybrid sunfish.!

No more action under the dock after that, so I turned my attention to the slop where I saw some fish movement.

And quickly nailed this chunky bluegill. not huge, but it sure has one mean looking bump on its head!



I kept working the heavy weeds and missed a couple, then was rewarded with this nice colored bull 'gill



I then got a small greenie with a big appetite, then that was it for that spot.

I wanted to get some more action somewhere, so I went north a ways and tried some other ponds I drive by from time to time. The first pond had the species I was looking for, but they were pretty small, plus there was a ton of annoying 7 inch yellow perch to contend with.

medium green

small but fat green



even small fish have good color



I found another small pond on the other side of the hill that had crystal clear water. not a sunfish to be seen, it seemed to be full of small largemouth bass and nothing else. I had a little fun with the bass and called it a night.

tubin for panfish

Tube, referring to both my boat, and my bait.I got some good action with a 2 1/2 inch red glow tube on a 1/16th ounce eye candy glow jig. the glow really called in the fish in the very murky water.Another thing that worked well was a small salmo hornet lure. The fish were shallow, and appeared to be done spawning, though there were still some bluegills on beds. I could see some of the strikes as the fish would often times come right up near the float tube, mabye curious at the noise and bright colors, but I would drop the bait down and they would nail it. I had to use bigger baits because there were a lot of 7 inch largemouth bass around that would instantly gobble anything that would fit in their mouth!