Photo sharing...Panfish

[ozzie]

the back of the seats say crestliner i believe.....

[palisade1kid]

yup crestliner.

Imagine reeling in a bull,popping a jig loose making a cast and rearing immeadiatly.

Same thing on the crappies almost.

I'm in Palisade & our lakes are really turning on.

Not bait needed so you just reared & reared.

Check out this video.

I wanted to put something together before I switch to doing the same thing on eyes.

Before I do I'll reiterate.What a blast we had yesterday.

My main sunny lake is just about to pop.

Earlier in the day we saw thousands of gills sunning themselves.

They are even bigger in this lake.I'll be hitting them very soon .

Here's the vid!

[Slyster]

Amazing! I think here in the metro most are VERY happy to get 20 crappies, and a few sunnies thrown in, right now, on a good long day out!

[palisade1kid]

I'm always into taking out new guys.

Mike ,Jon & clay were.

I think they'd come back for some more punishment.hehehehehe!

[mudman]

we had a very good time with keith. We let a lot of the bigger gills go and kept the 8"ers. Crappies didn't want to work with us that well yesterday but they're there. I would suggest anyone looking to get away from the crowds of walleye fisherman to give Keith a call.

GO MEAT!!!!

[fishing tech]

Hey Crappiekeith, I have a friend with a cabin on Jenkins. I have had some good ice fishing in that area but summer fishing is hit or miss. Keep the pictures coming.

[jlreding]

Excellent slideshow Keith! Loved the pics, music, and humorous bubble commentary. Great work!

[palisade1kid]

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we had a very good time with keith. We let a lot of the bigger gills go and kept the 8"ers. Crappies didn't want to work with us that well yesterday but they're there. I would suggest anyone looking to get away from the crowds of walleye fisherman to give Keith a call.

Well tonight was totally opposite.

We smashed the crappies with very few gills.

Then again we left the waxies at the bait shop.

This lake is close to Jenkins.

Here is the report from tonight.

Got out at 6 but we still boated 100 fish.

We talked to some others that just came out & they said they could not find any.

We set anchors & pounded them immeadiatly.

I guess they had minnows.

We caught 8 bass.

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/?action=view&current=718341d8.flv

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/?action=view&current=34ccd0d8.flv

http://s65.photobucket.com/albums/h209/palisade1kid/?action=view&current=da79ffae.flv

We had great weather with temps in the 80's which is really bringing in the fish.

I released several big females or lost them at the boat.It was no biggy as they were going back anyway.

Dude always asks "you eatin?"

Not today dude was my reply ,me neither he says.

I'm thinking I caught 15 fish in a row before I had to reel back without a fish.rick was on the same kind of tear.

We kept laughing as they were smashing T.H.E. Jig.

I lost 2 & he lost 1 jig to big bass.

I'm not kidding when I say we had enough & although we had a shorter trip I felt like I had a great night.

Mother nature put on a show for us on the way home with around 40 deer along the road & 1 big skunk.

She also gave us this.

See ya later catchers.I'm bushed.

GO MEAT!!!!

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We are vegetarians Nothing but hair & a HOOK!!!!!!!

[united jigsticker]

These fish didn't grow to the size they did and the numbers the have by people gang fishing them everyday of the week with every single person they know.

These lakes Keith is getting these nice fish from are small, fragile bodies of water.

I have fished both of them and seen first hand the quality in size and numbers they produce.

Congrats on some beautiful catches guys! It truly is a blast to get into fish like that!

But please, I urge, C&R these fish for the future angling opportunity.

[palisade1kid]

I'll take the high road.

There's a ton of fish swimming around there with a little tear in there lip.

[Slyster]

From what I have learned (true?) it's actually a GOOD thing to keep a certain number of the myriads of small fish and leave the big ones for production.

[palisade1kid]

You are correct.

see ya guys,time to gang up on some walleyes.

[katoguy]

I think now would be a good time to touch base on proper fish handling techniques for C & R. Just a friendly reminder to all.

Do not bend the lower jaw of the fish to prop the fish into a horizontal position without supporting the weight with your other hand. By using jaws as levers to rotate hanging bass away from vertical to a "more natural" horizontal position with one hand; many are unnecessarily straining jaw tissues. Tissue damage occurs long before bones break. Strain occurs anytime the jaw is distorted beyond the full-open position naturally used by bass/crappie. We don't need to carelessly give every fish released a "jaw ache."

[ozzie]

why???? these are panfish.....i can see with a big bass that you would want to support them but then again all the bass pros do it wrong then!!! let's just keep this forum for photos.......either way keep the pics coming......

[FishingIdiot]

Got out for a few hours yesterday and was fortunate enough to get good numbers. Most were bigger than these but, I thought the colors were good on these, which is often the case with smaller fish.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/elbote72/photo/294928804375731620/0

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/elbote72/photo/294928804375763360/1

[snoozebutton]

Good advice Katoguy, I'd never thought of that but it makes perfect sense. I'll definitely keep that in mind in the future.

[Cyberfish]

I got out for a couple of hours of rearing on some bulls and slabs, you had to use a big plastic, regular panfish sized baits would get sluped up insantly by the hordes of tiny green sunnies in there!

[Shack]

You all have great fish pics. I never reveiwed this thread before and I just reveiwed from start to finish. Got a little hairy for awhile. Keep them coming. I thought the hunting dog area was aggresive. The pan fish area put's it to shame .

[Matt Johnson]

Gill from yesterday...

[Corey Bechtold]

Nice fish Matty!

Glad you're getting out a little more.

Later,

Corey Bechtold

[Shack]

Corey Bechtold,

Did you grow up in ER area? What BS do you manage? The name and face strike a cord in my memory. Possibley wrong..

[palisade1kid]

Very respectable gill you have there Matt.

Thanks for the pic.

[tommyk]

Matt,

Good to see that you are either finally making it out or just finally catching photo worthy pannies!

A little late in getting these posted, but better late than never.

East metro slab...

Iowa bull...

[Tyler Holm]

There starting to turn colors...

[Corey Bechtold]

Good fish Tommy and Tyler! Man, that is a tank Bluegill Tommy. Way to go! Tyler, you gotta love the dark spawning colors on the Crappies.

Great fishing,

Corey Bechtold