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 Where have all the Big fish gone???
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07/01/09 12:40 PM
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ERNEST PATY
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This spring was one of the best years for BIG Crappie on Lewisville that I remember in a long time.
Now all I can catch are dinks. Shallow, deep, timber, brush, bridges, doesn't seem to matter.
Yesterday morning two of us caught over 120 crappie, 4' deep to 25' deep, only a handfull of keepers. Sure it was fun but 9" fish get boring after a while.
I know the lake has the big fish in it but...where are they?
On a brighter note, it was a great day to be fishing. Calm, cool, cloudy and fish eager to bite everywhere we tried.
Ernest Paty 214-202-7866
catchcrappie@aol.com
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: ERNEST PATY]
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07/01/09 12:43 PM
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Fillet O' Crappie
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I'm glad to hear it ain't just me. At least it's still fun being out on the lake.
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 Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: ERNEST PATY]
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07/01/09 12:52 PM
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BigMack
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: BigMack]
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07/01/09 12:57 PM
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SLABmeSILLY
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Yesterday was nice in compare to the previous week...much cooler
Glad you got a chance to rip them Ernest due to the under 100's weather morning... You weren't a bad boy and stayed longer than 5hrs per the Dr. order, were you? hehehe
Where all the big one?...wow...been asking the same thing...
However, I noticed that when I was down there at CC on Sunday...
The bites were aggressive in the morning with a little breeze; then when the wind stop with glass-like surface, they stopped as well. The funny thing was, when it was hard to catch them as the wind stopped, I was catching the bigger ones (very nice batch of big slabs), but the bites were so light that most would gone unoticed...
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: BigMack]
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07/01/09 01:01 PM
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Stucky76
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Mack, there aren't any fish in Grapevine! 
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: ERNEST PATY]
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07/01/09 01:29 PM
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fishhuntgolfgeek
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Same story on Ray-Bob.....all undersized with a few keepers on my favorite brush piles. What's going on?
 Soldotna, Alaska..Kenai River 2011...FISHON!
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: fishhuntgolfgeek]
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07/01/09 02:24 PM
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KidKrappie
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I think all of the big fish are extinct.  It is like they just dissappeared. 
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: Stucky76]
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07/01/09 02:40 PM
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BigMack
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Mack, there aren't any fish in Grapevine! I'm afraid I have worn that lie out. I messed up and posted about LMBs too many times too then Ish came to town and it got really popular then. I was on the lake watching him win the BassMasters that day. He was in my spot catching spots! 
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: BigMack]
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07/01/09 05:10 PM
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craigo
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I caught 11 fish on granbury in the heat of the day last friday... 3 of them just short of 10 inches, 8 under 6 inches! Looked more like catfish bait than anything.
 I don't live for the thump, but I sure do like it.
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: ERNEST PATY]
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07/01/09 05:53 PM
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Wylie Jeff
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Wow Ernest, we have all been waiting on you to jump in and let us know what we were doing wrong and what pattern to look for/try to catch the big ones.  You are da' man you know  I'm sure you have seen this happen to the local lakes before - right?
Keep looking forward. That’s why windshields are larger than rear view mirrors.
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: craigo]
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07/01/09 05:55 PM
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kayakin4crappie
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I caught 11 fish on granbury in the heat of the day last friday... 3 of them just short of 10 inches, 8 under 6 inches! Looked more like catfish bait than anything. I would not even say that on here!
Jason Welsch
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 Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: ERNEST PATY]
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07/01/09 08:49 PM
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RedTopLady
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They took a bus to CC under the bridges.
Yesterday was nice, I was lucky enough to have already planned on fishing and the weather cooperated so well. It was a pleasure, did get hot before I got off the water, as usual I stayed too long. Wish I could set a limit and stick to it. I always rag myself out. Then I have to clean fish when I get home.
Good luck tomorrow on CC, wish I had found your post earlier. Dang! Missed fishing with you again.
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: RedTopLady]
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07/01/09 09:44 PM
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Keith Speer
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There is not room for the big fish for all the dinks.........
But dinks grow up.... 
Look out next year..... 
Crappie fishing... what else is there ?? 
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: Keith Speer]
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07/01/09 09:58 PM
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Martin Ping
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I thought it was me...I fished the west side of RR today and nothing but 7-9 inch fish...I caught maybe 30 fish with 3 or 4 barely keepers...They are on the BP's you just have to check their ID's...Didn't catch a fish on the 3002 bridges...
I did get most of the BP's on the west side remarked tho...
-Tim  
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Re: Where have all the Big fish gone???
[Re: Martin Ping]
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07/01/09 10:08 PM
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JUGHEAD
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They are all safely vacuum packed in my freezer.  You need to modify your tactics. Smaller fish are much more aggressive than larger fish.  Jughead
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