Crappie fishing in new pontoon

[dbowling]

Me and step son took my new to me pontoon boat out for its maiden voyage today to a local reservoir and crappie fished for 5 hours.. We caught right at 100 crappie and kept 40, nothing big with biggest being 12 inches and smallest around 9.5 in. with most at 10 in..
Lake seems to be full of small crappie, hopefully next season they will be getting bigger, used to catch a lot of 12-15 in crappie out of it 25 yrs ago. Ended up with a huge bowl of fillets.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

Nice catch!

 

[edmehlig]

So when are you inviting us over for your Fish Fry??

 

[flounder]

Nice going, I like fishing out of a pontoon, you don't get tired out.

 

[BuckDoeHunter]

So when are you inviting us over for your Fish Fry??

I've never enjoyed fresh fish more than catching 'em that day and frying 'em up that evening. artyman:

 

[ShawnT]

Great Catch. :yeah:
Man my family Love eating crappie. I think it is our favorite fish.

 

[dbowling]

Anytime you want to make the trip

So when are you inviting us over for your Fish Fry??

 

[dbowling]

Shawn,
same here I like all fish but crappie are my favorite.

Great Catch. :yeah:
Man my family Love eating crappie. I think it is our favorite fish.

 

[Idaholewis]

Crappie are tough to beat for good eating :yeah: And fun to catch! We always fished the Lilly Pads for them in the Spring when they were staging up to Spawn, the Males were really dark, almost black (They call it putting on their Tuxedo) I need to start fishing again, I’ve pretty much given up on it the last few years, Not because it wasn’t good, Just had to many other Irons in the Fire