Fishing Update In Your Area.
 

Fellows,
1. Are you just hunting or hunting and fishing?

2. What are you fishing for?

3. How are you doing?

I am fishing for crappie as well as hunting. It's been a little slow and crappie where I fish have to be at least 10 inches. Many are 9 1/2 . I did manage to get 2 nice meals of them for the freezer though. I love using light tackle and my favorite reel is the C 101 Garcia open faced spinning reel with 6 pound Trilene clear. I use live minnows and hal flies. { A jig} Nothing over 13 inches yet.
During the minnow fishing I've caught many channel cats and a few nice bass. I only keep the crappie.
God bless,
C7

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Catfish are staying pretty deep, and the bream and crappie are staying shallow, where I'm at.

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i've been catching bass on jewel spyder jigs from0-20ft. deep along rocky banks just by casting to the bank and letting drag behind the boat it does real well with a jewel crawdad trailer ''The Eakins Craw'' is the trailer by jewel but the color is green pumpkin and cimmonin purple.

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Hey Chuck how did your deer season go. Did youdo any good bow hunting up in Missouri?I might get to weta fishing line come middle of December, other wise it willbe the end of Janurary before I can get out.

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Hey Chuck how did your deer season go. Did youdo any good bow hunting up in Missouri?I might get to weta fishing line come middle of December, other wise it willbe the end of Janurary before I can get out.

Thanks for asking,
My friend Strut in Missouri has been going through a lot of trials .His wife had just had a liver transplant and was having some difficulties so I opted to stay in Florida this year. So far I haven't gotten anything. I had 2 opportunities for a shot in Florida with a bow but blew both opportujties. I've sat 5 times in a tree for general gun but haven't seen anything. Our general gun goes through Jan.6th .I get 2 more weeks off in Dec. so I will hunt hard then. Until that time comes I may shoot a few squirrels and catch a few more crappie.

I hope your hunting and fishing season goes good .;)
c7

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I've only been hunting, but I am doing well. Waiting for the ice to hit the lakes, then we can get some fishing in! ;)

Good luck all; be safe!

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I'm hunting & fishing and I've been going for crappies and sunnies for awhile, catching a few but its getting to cold now.

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I love our crappie..for you new fellers ..
Crappie can have a mushy like texture so if ya want a 5 star recipe to firm them up and make them tasty .here it is.

1.Soak your thawed out crappie / speck fillets covered in buttermilk OVER NIGHT

2. Take fish directly from buttermilk and dredge them through a mixture of 1/4 cornmeal and3/4 white flour and generouis aount of salt and pepper.

3. Carefully put ina 5/8th inch hot oil that is in a cast iron skillet.

4. When stiff and golden brown carefully flip over.

5. When that side is golden brown let fillets drain on paper towels.

I don't know how but your crappie are now firmed up real good and the taste is spectaculiar. There are never any left overs.

Serve with..
baked beans onions,molasses with crispy slab bacon on top
cole slaw
sweet tea
apple pie.

:):)Good Stuff man

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Still catching specks..here is one just over 12"
I also caught 5 big channels on light tackle and 2 bass.
I caught around 25 specks but only kept 8

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NIce.. your speck's are alot different than ours. Same shape but different coloration. The ice is coming soon!