King Slammin

Warm water crappie is mushy, just like any warm water fish. Even late summer walleye taste like garbage. But crappie through the ice and into pre spawn is my favorite fish to put on a plate.

Lol. That's the truth!!

My buddy caught this on long last year. 31.5" and had to be 14+ lbs. we released her without a weight.

We fished yesterday. Parkway side of long, all down edge mere side of long and 3/4 of the way down cranberry. Finally found some for the last hour and a half. Some slobs too.

Dipseys shouldn't tangle like that. I run two on each side consistently and rarely have issues (unless it's operator error) Run one on a 3 setting with more line out in front of one on a 1 or 1.5 setting with less line out.

I like the tx22 so far. Just started using them. What don't you like about them. I need another set of boards for light stuff as my 44's won't cooperate while pulling sticks for Browns.

The tx 44 will pull mag dipseys according to the church website.

Was that an Alumacraft? Beautiful out there today. Wish I was still out. Thought about sliding out a bit deeper after the bite died down but decided to call it a day. Water is still pretty cold, 37 in front of keg. Mostly gobies in the two Browns we kept so the emeralds haven't arrived. That spoon was our best lure today, took the bigger brown and the laker.

Hit the home port for the first time this year. 5 or 6 trailers in the lot when we launched about 8:15. We tried out in front of the piers for a couple passes with no success so picked up ran to keg. Only ran 4 rods, 2 planers and two riggers. Doubled up on our first pass with both fish on the boards. Next pass produced a hard fighting lake trout off the outside rigger. My buddy had fun with him on the med. light rod. Next pass a decent brown took the spoon off one of the riggers and another cookie cutter hit the outside planer for our second double. We got one more cookie cutter and a 15" brown on the planer after a few empty passes and called it a day. Ended 7 for 7. Here is what we took fish on today, each took multiple fish.

X4. Those black and orange spoons have caught many kings for us from the 80's and 90's to the last 5 yrs I've been back on the lake. I like to move fast and 90% of my spoons are NK blanks

Jigs, kwikfish, bass shiners, swimbaits. Whatever they want that day. Or should I say whatever you can confidently fish in that current.