Have a Crappie Day!

March 20th-

I've been waiting since November 13th to hit this spot again. Otter and i stumbled across it when we were fishing the Darby and had the best day of the season. The weather turned horrible and we haven't been able to get to it since. The river was finally running low enough to cross and we waded over hoping to find some monster bass. Within the first 5 minutes we were catching fish. I caught a small bluegill and was trying to get him out of the rocks when Eric hooked into an 11 inch Crappie. It's one of the bigger Crappies I had ever seen, and damn near a Fish Ohio size.

That's when all hell broke loose.

Eric hit another one a few casts later and it was even bigger. That was 12.5 inches. Dude was on fire!

He hooked up again! This time he knew he had a good one on...a fat 2.5lb largemouth

Otter moved around the bank to some brush on the far side. He smashed a giant! From where Eric and I were standing we thought it was a big Largemouth. Otter comes around the lake with this thing and it's the biggest Crappie I've ever seen. Look at the freakin size of this monster:

13.5 inches 1.9lbs an absolute beast. Fish Ohio Crappie. Fish Ohio size for a Crappie is 13 inches and as you can see Otter's well past the mark. Heck of a first fish!

At this point these 2 are slamming pigs and I haven't had a bite. I said "Dude i'm not measuring another fish or taking another picture of you @$$#&!$@# catching fish!!"

The madness continued when Eric caught a gorgeous spotted bass. It was a clinic at that point. These 2 can't miss, and I can't get a bite. That's freakin fishin for ya...

They were biting on these berkeley minnows texas rigged. The bite slowed down and we tried a few other spots without any luck. All said and done, I'm not even proud to say i caught the first fish, Eric destroyed the most fish and Otter caught a Fish Ohio Crappie his first trip out. Hell of a way to start 2010!! Now when I text you and tell ya'll we're goin fishin' we're out DOIN WORK.

Oink Oink!

March 19th-

70 degrees and sunny, you can't ask for better weather than this in March. Heck, even Heather wanted to go fishing! We picked up some live bait and an 18 pack of bud light and headed out for a day on the water. Heather caught the first fish of the day, this MONSTER bass! Her first fish of the 2010 season!!

Cute pink pole! Leave it to Heff to make fishing with worms look cute.

The bite was slow so we moved to a new spot in Hilliard that a guy on the Ohio Game Fishing Forum gave me. He said there were alot of hawgs in this pond and i've been anxious to check it out. The sun was shining and there was a little bit of wind. Perfect spinnerbait weather. I was slow rollin a white spinner bait and had 2 fish blow up on it on back to back casts. Neither were much over 2lbs, but good healthy bass none the less.

Nice lip heat

Brian "Rag" Schiffer joined us at this new spot and was also rollin a white spinner bait. A few casts after I caught my second spotted bass Brian hooks up. I yelled down to him, "you gonna need the scale for that one?" He said OH YEAH!! It's a big-un!! When you have a fish on your line, it's always the biggest fish you've ever caught. At least until you land it and realize it's not the giant you hoped for. This time, it truly was. This fishes mouth was so big you coulda fisted it!! Look at this giant!!

You don't mind tellin your buddies you hooked up with a pig when she looks like this. Probably not the only pig B hooked up with this weekend...

I'm normally happy when someone I'm fishing with catches a big ol bass. However, me and nate have been fishing our asses off this year and haven't caught anything over 2lbs. Brian goes out here on his second trip out and slays the biggest fish of the year. The fish weighed in at 2lbs 10oz, but you gotta remember this lake was frozen 2 weeks ago. In a month that's a 4lb fish. The day ended with Heather catching the first fish, Brian catching the biggest fish, and I caught the most fish. I think Heather took home the award of catching the most Buzz...those bud lights were goin down preeetty dang easy! All in all, one of the funnest days i've ever had fishing. THE BITE IS ON PEOPLE!!!

Hammering em in Marysville

March 12th-

There's the sunshine!!! FINALLY the ice is gone and the waters warming up. It's been a looong, painful winter. Just a few weeks ago I was staring at the 3 foot of snow on my back deck thinking I'd never get to fish again. At long last the sun has returned and turned the water soft again!

Nate met me after work out at the honey hole hoping the big bass were awoken from their slumber and hungry for a meal. We could see big brown spots swimming in the water, and they were all gathered up in one end. Nate and I threw about everything we had at them and they weren't interested. We decided to make the 30 minute drive up to Marysville to the farm ponds on our buddy's property. The move proved to be a good one.

I was on the dock hooking up live bait for my 2nd rod. Nate went to a tree that's fallen in the water and hooks up on the 2nd cast. I've been dying to use my new Rapala digital scale I got for Christmas, so we threw the fish on there. 1lb, 4oz. Not exactly what I'd call a cow, and not the weight I wanted to break the scale in with...But a bass is a bass.

Again Nate caught it on a white jig with a mister twister. That's the hote set up righ tnow. He caught another small one before I could get a line in the water. I run over and throw the exact same thing and almost immediately hook up. Cross March off the list! 1st Ohio Bass of 2010. Probably the same 1.4lbs.

We worked around catching a few more fish and tried the other smaller ponds. Nate caught 3 and I had caught 4. Nate left to go feed his face and got his van stuck in the mud. Brian showed up and we spent quality fishing time getting his Mexican painting van out of the mud. Nice work Super. Brian and I went to make a couple more casts before calling it quits. Brian finally hooked up and gets on the board for 2010. He's got some catching up to do....

It's like someone flipped a switch, we were catching fish left and right. That's how you do work in March! It's a real subtle bite right now, you have to fish these jigs really slow and be patient for the bite. I missed 3 or 4 by setting the hook too fast. Had 2 on about to land them and they got off. It's a tough hook set. Brian caught another one right away and I caught 3 on consecutive casts. Unbelievable for March. The last of those 3 was the best of the day. He actually hit the jig hard and about fell on my ass setting the hook. I yelled out "I HIT HIM SO HARD I MADE HIM CROSS EYED!"

Darkness crept in and lightning started flashing close by so we decided to call it a day. Scoreboard: Me 8, Nate 3, Brian 3. Heck of a day for early March! Just for the record, Nate's Bass was 1.4, and Brian weighed in this beast.