I wonder if today is my day off the bank ?
yesterday it surely wasn't .......
pitched the works at em ....
3 different manufacturers of baits hit the water
several locations on 2 water bodies ....
every style and size and color imaginable ...
got a few half you know what bites
hooked ONLY one fish and lost it ....
or maybe I should drag the ss minnow out ?
decisions decisions
the only thing for totally sure is I need to go ketchn
like right NOW ...
fishin is just NOT MY thang >>>>>>>>>>>
KABOOM

Still a little warm to catching Crappie from the bank. They are out in 15 to 20 foot of water right now. the only thing you can catch right now off the bank is a few ggod size perch and Black bass early in the morning.

well I decided to go bank em at one of the same spots as yesterday
I kinda knew they would be there ,,,,the pattern is midday or go home
by dinner time they leave the shallow water
I hit it late yesterday an hour before sunset and they were gone hunting already ...
fished 7 to 8 foot deep under a float same as the day before same spot
we managed about 25 keeper crappie and 4 channel cat
nothing else got in our way today
all on jigs ...lost one very large crappie on the surface when it jumped
lost another crappie in a right at me feet wrestling match
my bud released fish till I got there
...anyway ....
10 to 14 foot of water 8 foot average below the float
we goofed around with em for 3 bout hours
and yes ....we put a few of them on ice just for good measure ,,,,
so here they are pre iced
and as always ...
K A B O O M

wait wait I almost forgot something
how about a photo right on the rocks we ketched them from as well ?

KABOOM

Dang, nice stringer especially from the bank off of jigs in late summer. Did you dial in on the color they were after or was it just a matter of finding them hungry?

I bet your inbox might see some action. Crappie aren't supposed to bite from the bank in summer time :-)

WTG Ketchn, you're tha man!
Look like a beautiful lake in tha background of yer pic...

thanks sir , we do enjoy a well rounded scenario on the ketchn crappie thing ....
we have a theory on the ketchn of crappie ....
find them ketch them
most of the time its finding them it seems to us that's the ticket
they have a routine that's fairly predictable
in this case its go when its HOT AND SUNNY
NOT when its cooler and late in the day
the day before was nice in the late evening


but the fish were NOT there
done left to roam the open water at night
but color does play into the situation frequently
in this case a color combination in a not terribly bright chart with some sparkle was a good bet
I did my damage to em on a Thermocline small fry silver flash/chart
on a 1/16 oz pink walmart jighead under a walmart Styrofoam pinch on float

straight silver flash should have worked but for some reason they didn't think much of it ?
a few were managed on some other colors ....
but predominantly the jig color in the photo with or without a painted head seemed best
my bud used a BG in a similar color that was working for him as well

texas state parks frequently have a combination of beauty and fish
I bet if we wanted to ketch kitty catfish we could have put a serious whoopin on em
4 channel cat on jigs midday tells me it aint just crappie hangin roun hungry off them rocks
and we manage several other species most of time as well
flatheads bass carp and a few black crappie sometimes as well
last visit my bud ketched about 35 lb carp
and a guy visitng him took a 20 lb flatty up to his fish camp to fry up with his family
there is a bunch of bait in the area most of the time
and the rest of the fish hang around to enjoy the bounty
those who follow my posts know this is my second texas state park in less than a week
that produced lots of crappie fish off the bank
K A B O O M

it seems to us that a boat makes it WAY easy to ketch crappie fish most of the time
we chuckled at how bad we would smoke them if we could get on top of them
but with the water levels so low , many places its the bank for us
one thing for sure somewhere sometime during the day
there are crappie you can ketch from the bank
stay tuned , I am probably going to bank fish again in the next 24 hours at another spot
then maybe the boat sunday afternoon ....
and you ask .....
what kinda Bonehead would try to ketch crappie off the bank in the late summer ?
the Outlaw Ketchn Whales would for sure

and then of course one a my trademark selfies for the road ....
stay tuned yawl ....and stay after em ....
K A B O O M

Those would be good with a mess of these....

I gave all my lil grey birds away the other day .....

and my other half and I just discussed if we should clean them crappie or donate them
we decided "I" should fillet then and "we" should eat them later today
then we discussed the ketchn of more crappie tomorrow from the bank and NOT keeping any ....
and possibly the fluffin of our lil grey feathered friends as well and maybe keeping a few of them instead
KABOOM

Ketchn

You are without a doubt, the Crappiest fisherman I've ever sorta known.

Simply Awesome. It don't get any better!




"KABOOM"!