Saved the weekend...

[800stealth]

After getting up at 300 yesterday morning and having trailer troubles a few miles in, I spent the day doing chores and sulking. Got up this morning to redeem myself and buzzed over to a crappie spot 15 minutes away that didn't need a wheeler. Brought out the old Shappell suitcase shanty, mainly because it fits in the back seat lol... Still fun to get back out there with it after probably 7 or 8 years. Started drilling holes at 430, was sending down the 1st shiner and a crappie took it from my hands before I could put the trap in. After that I got 5 traps in and started jigging, crappie and largemouth bite was steady on jig and traps. By 1100 my 3 dozen shiners were gone and I stayed jigging till around 100.
Brought home enough crappie for a couple meals and the rest went back for another day.
Every jigged fish came on the same pink tungsten tipped with a couple spikes, I tried other colors and nothing... This one was the only one they wanted.

[SALMONEMIA]

Looking good. Way to salvage the weekend.

[sebago2jigtima]

to bad about the trailer , hope you get it fixed
atleast you had better second day 
way to go !

[AQUAASSASSIN]

Awesome Ray! Fillets look great.

[Tony Thunder]

Looks good, as AA said those fillets came out nice looking!

[Mascoma]

Nice. Great work! Great report!

[Roccus]

Yea buddy..good save..

[HuntnFish603]

Bummer about the trailer but way to score the save today buddy.
Nice filets

[Roccus]

After getting up at 300 yesterday morning and having trailer troubles a few miles in, I spent the day doing chores and sulking. Got up this morning to redeem myself and buzzed over to a crappie spot 15 minutes away that didn't need a wheeler. Brought out the old Shappell suitcase shanty, mainly because it fits in the back seat lol... Still fun to get back out there with it after probably 7 or 8 years. Started drilling holes at 430, was sending down the 1st shiner and a crappie took it from my hands before I could put the trap in. After that I got 5 traps in and started jigging, crappie and largemouth bite was steady on jig and traps. By 1100 my 3 dozen shiners were gone and I stayed jigging till around 100.
Brought home enough crappie for a couple meals and the rest went back for another day.
Every jigged fish came on the same pink tungsten tipped with a couple spikes, I tried other colors and nothing... This one was the only one they wanted.

Love the picture of the bomber  in action, hindsight,  you should have rode out with me, fishing  was good but it was damn COLD

[Nosaj]

Perseverance is key.  Nice haul.

[800stealth]

Thanks fellas. It wasn't so much a trailer problem, more of a I wasn't paying attention problem. Just put a hitch on the winter beater, took everything from the boxes, bolted it all up and tried to send it not realizing they shipped the wrong ball. In my younger days I would have just cranked down the coupler nut until the 2" trailer fit the 1 7/8" ball and hoped for no issues and dealt with it sounding like a pintle hitch for the day... Getting older and wiser can throw a wrench in the plans sometimes.

[PoolGuy]

Nice sink full of slabs…Good save for sure 

[Lv2hunt]

Nice haul

[DConICE]

Well done Ray....

[jibbs]

Those fillets look nice ..take care stealth