It was an absolute divine day on the Grape...

The Keeper and the boys floated out back while I slung some big girls over the bow of the boat. It was an absolute divine day on the Grape...Color didn't matter but as some might already know what I was tossing at them. Hand-tied, Black/Chart 1/16th pink.

man o man! Thanks for the report

Nice slab!

WTG!

Nice'un....

The gift that keeps on giving.

..I was outside most of the day..but at work

Tell me more about this bait you were using.

Cool trip.

WTG!

I told myself at the start of this year "Keep it simple stupid" and have selected to fish only hand-tied jigs. Black/Chart & White/Chart with a pink jig head. I have a good friend tying me some and have had a few other jig guys send me some to try out. I have caught more crappie this year and my big fish ratio has gone up considerably over the last 5-6 years of fishing crappie. Yes, I still have a big bag of plastics and when the bite gets tough I just keep giving the hand tie to them. I will change to the white and back to black when things slow up and it has seemed to get them biting again. 1/8 and 1/16 oz.

So there you have it Ron "BlueNitro" I think you may know the person personally who tied those two jigs in the picture below.

Oh, I have also been tipping the jig with the Berkely Waxie.

I have been wanting to fish Grapevine but don't know where to start. Never been on that lake.

Thanks For The Report!

all the crappie jig makers/sellers just took you off their Xmas list...

Nice pics Dave. Good work.

Very nice David.

This jig alone landed over 400 crappies under a bobber last spring. They just slap-ate-it-up.

Awesome, thanks for sharing.

I do the same thing with my kids. Swim out the back of boat while i fish in the front. Talk about a win win deal