Collin and power plant ramps open.





Same thing, different day. The crappie bit all day long. I went back out and scanned for two hours with side imaging. After I was done, I limited in less than 45 mins. As soon as the sun set over the trees, they vanished.

Great report!!

Wind sucks. Fished 7 - 15 ft of water. Every time we would break off in the brush, I would put on a different colored Thump-Buddy. It didn't matter the color still. We sent down 9 diff colors and they all got wacked.

If you catch 4 dinks in a row, move to the next location. Little guys hang out with other little guys.

nice pic of monster slabs!

Hit the water around noon. Not one truck in the parking lot. Saw two fishing boats and a sail boater. Windy as Eco out of the North. If your trolling motor can hold you, the fish are there waiting for a jig.

I ordered some brush pile seeds, online last week. So I planted them to see what would happen in 12-17 ft of water. I went back later and they all grew out very nicely. Not surprising to me because I see this happen a lot. Within an hour usually, if placed in the correct spots, fish will show up to a freshly sunken structure. After two hours I scanned one of them and saw some fish on it. Caught 6 crappie. 2 dinks and 4 keepers with a 2.33 lber.

Fish are still spawning. Males are suited up in all black. ( note top left fish in pick ).

Again: color didn't matter. If they are there, they will eat.

Don't anchor on brush piles.

If your new to the lake, get out of the wind and run along the banks in 10-15 foot of water, anywhere really, and you will find a brush pile. If you don't feel confident in doing so, learn.

If you don't want to learn and just want some meat. Stump hop all day and u will fill that live well up. 6 inches to 3 ft off the bottom next to the logs. Remember this too the logs have a root ball system. Don't only fish the right next to the log, fan out and fish it 4-5 foot around the stump. Sometimes those root balls get exposed and the fish hold and spawn on them too.

Dang it son! That's some fine fish and a hell of a report! Sounds like you know your stuff. Congrats

Thanks.

It was a very hard day. But a steady bite when I could hold the boat still. Weather man is in training or something.




Rant: move it people


Please people. Don't take your merry little time launching ur boat or putting the boat on the trailer. At least power walk or something. One guy at the ramp took 21 minutes to put his boat on. 8 mins of that was him in the actual boat.

If your boat doesn't start, pull it out and work on it on dry land so the rest of the working boats can launch.

When the PVC is marking the end of the ramp. They r not ment to be bumpers to help get ur boat on the trailer. They are mashed down into the mud so u know when to stop ur trailer.

This one really pissed me off. 2 pm I'm on plain headed to Mallard from Collin Park. I see a boat with a guy paddleing like heck in a 15 mph west wind. So I cut over to see if he was just trying to show off or really needed help. Turns out 3 boat wizard by him and didn't assist. He said he waved them down and they just kept going. I literally tow back 2 boats a week on average. Sometimes my clients loose an hour, but how would you feel if no one stopped for you? Carp turds.

Don't block the ramp. Pull ur boat all the way out.

Don't back ur boat down the ramp and then hop out 10 ft from the water and start organizing the boat right before u put it in. Put it in the water and do it there, or on dry land before u think of launching or getting in line.

It all comes down to:

1. Get in line
2. Launch
3: Park Truck

Nothin there but those three things should be done unless it has to do with those three things.

If there were ramps open else where and not just one lane, do what u want. But be courteous to everyone else.
If your truck is not in line, ur not in line. Standing on the ramp doesn't mean your in line.

Someone is going to shoot someone down there one day.

Tomorrow is going to be very windy again. Worse actually. �Monday 20+ winds coming.

Black/chart white/chart pink/chart Thump Buddy's.

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mymy tarpon fly get hot when people act like jerks ? i second that emotion.you go guy.

I have to say though, the view while your waiting is very nice.

Don't you just love the boat ramps in the summer --LOL--. My worst pet peve is the family who pulls up and backs down about ten feet from the ramp and then decides to unload their car of coolers, water toys, life jackets, beach towels, umbrellas ,put sunscreen on each other and then can't get their boat started once they finally back it in the water --LOL-- I see this at least ten times a summer and that is the extreme --LOL--

Nice catches Carey sorry i haven't been in touch

Wind kicked me in the butt bad today. Only ended up with 12-15 keepers. Caught 50+ but were dinks or right at 10 inches.



Fished 6-22 ft timber and brush. Fish were tight to the structure.

Wind and a broken throttle cable kicked us off the lake today around 10:00am, tuff ride back to the ramp with one person pulling the throttle body and the other holding the tiller to steer in the whitecaps. We ended up with 30 big keepers though, the bite was a little tough today but better than Friday. Water is still a little churned up.

I went to Little Ridge last Saturday and a guy sat there and cleaned fish on the ramp for about 20 minutes. Blocked the good side of the ramp for a bit.

When it was finally my turn to lauch, got the boat down the ramp, went to crank the motor, ttttttttttttttttttt! Wouldn't start, so, pulled the boat off the ramp, parked the boat in the lot, switched batteries, and blammo, she starts. That took me about 10 minutes.

Had to get back in line, and low and behold the same guy is still filleting fish at the top of the boat ramp!

Courtesy and preparedness is a lost art.

Fished the tires yesterday evening. Crappie and sandbass taking minnows and jigs as fast as we could give them. Had to go through a lot of dinks to get the keepers, but got some nice ones. Got a big male still all blacked out too.