CATCH N COOK (BOAT LOAD OF FISH)

Last weekend sucked! In fact It was one of the worst trips in probably 20 years for me. Between me and Dad we fished for 5 hours and boated one stinking fish!

This weekend was the exact opposite! Dad didn't want to go so I went by myself. I know some of yall have PM'ed me wanting to go sometime but until this social distancing crap is relaxed its best not to chance it.

Anyway I pulled up to a submerged levee and started graphing looking for Sandbass. Didn't take long until the graph blacked out with fish. I stopped the boat and started whacking them every cast for about an hour and a half. After that petered out I decided to go looking for Crappie around 9:30. Took about 10 minutes to find them and another 20 minutes to figure them out. Once I did I probably caught about 50 or so but only about 15 keepers.

In all I probably caught 100 Sandbass and Hybrids and about 50 Crappie. So about 150 fish from 8am till noon. I probably kept about 30 of the biggest ones. I didn't want to leave but I knew I had to clean them and get them cooked up. When I left the ramp looked like 4th of July weekend! I have never seen so many dang boats and trucks at the ramp. People were parked as far as the eye could see!

I ended up just cooking the Crappie and freezing the Sandies. Im good for 2 days breakfast, lunch, and dinner with all this fried fish! Threw in a few seasoned tater wedges to cool off the grease when the temperature would try to climb on me.

Nice

Nice job!!! Crappie, better than popcorn shrimp in my book!!!! Been toooooo long since I had some...

Awesome morning Fried Crappie and taters look fricking delicious

Great !!!!

Nice haul and some excellent eating!

I'm not even hungry & that looks amazing

Lookin' mighty good and I can almost smell the fish frying! Try to eat enough for all of us!!

That’s awesome.

The Crappie Commander does it again.

Nicely done!!!

Way to go ! That's a fun morning .

Those days are awesome. Pretty jealous of all that fresh fish

Yummy!

That looks great

Looks great!

Yes sir

Love Crappie. Congrats!

That looks amazing!

Thanks guys. Took me until 6am this morning to eat it all. Best of all I still have 4 bags of Sandbass in the freezer for some other time!

Hopefully the wind will keep blowing all week and the fish will stack up for this weekend. I really think this weekend will be better because the fish were just starting to show up this past weekend, and 2 weeks ago there was NOTHING in the areas these were caught. Historically the first week of May is the best for these spots so with a little luck I can fill the ice chest again next weekend.

Awesome job. Looks great.

Nice haul!

Good job on the crappie. Your on a roll.

Boys...He does the same thing at the lease with hogs varmits, and deer..jcb is a regular Jeremiah Johnson,..I'm 65 and he's the best outdoorsman I've ever met...good haul, Justin