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Raleigh, NC
Born in Richmond, Virginia, grew up in Kernersville, North Carolina, and now reside in Raleigh. I attribute most of my fishing prowess to my father, who took me fishing often as a child. We would regularly do float trips on the James River in Virginia, which is where I learned to love canoeing and river fishing. Unfortunately, my father has passed, but he lives on through my passion for chasing fish from my canoes. I intend to pass this love for fishing and the outdoors onto my children and can't wait to share these experiences with them. I currently have 4 canoes: Customized Old Town Guide 119, Customized Mohawk 16 Royalex, Coleman Scanoe, and 12' Indian River Solo.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Crappie Day

My son and I got out on a local flow today in search of dinner. I was a little concerned it would be too chilly for him, but the weather was absolutely awesome. In fact, he had to lose the sweatshirt around noon. Water temp was 53 to start and 57 when we left.



We launched around 10 am. Things started slow as we made our way through the seas of leaves. My son's rod got hit first trolling a big white curly tail. This was the only largemouth caught and was the best fish of the day.   I think he enjoyed the fight :)



We passed one spot off the main channel and all the rods got hit. We fished this area for a few hours and caught about 10 crappie and 2 nice gills. All crappie were caught on 1" chartreuse flake curly tail jigs with 1/4 oz white heads.




We kept 5 of the larger crappie and both gills. They all found hot peanut oil that night. My 2 yr old daughter also enjoyed the fish.

The Mohawk performed very well.  This was also my fish attempt at using sonar in the canoe.  I'll showcase that gear on a later post.  Now, if I can just get back out on the water by year end. 
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2 comments:

Feather Chucker said...

Great post, I can't wait to fish with my kids. I'm still searching for a good crappie spot where I can actually eat the fish I catch. The places I usually go to are laced with PCB's.

November 21, 2013 at 9:20 AM
Fish Whisperer said...

Thanks Kev. Fishing with my son has been great. The upper Cape Fear basin has a few good spots, as well as the Upper Neuse. I don't fish CB creek. You'll have to drive a little farther to get "clean" fish.

December 31, 2013 at 4:32 PM

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