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Looks like a great time. I especially like those fat walleyes.

My brother in law up in the north country uses leadcore for summer time walleye when they’re staying deep. Up there the Salmo Hornet is the darling nowadays but I break off so many fishing trees and rock piles that I can’t stomach the $8 a piece price tag. I get the flicker shad when scheels runs their spring sales.

We target them when they move into the shallow flats during the spring. From now until August they can usually be found in 8 to 12 feet of water. Really the only place on our home lake that is much deeper than that is the old creek channels. The channels are up to 40’ deep but only about 30’ wide. The hot spots are old ditches and stuff like that from the roads and little community that is now under the lake. Drag them across the ditch that’s 14’ in 9’ of water and as soon as they come across the cut hang on!

Nice always look forward to you and the little mans pics and updates. 👍

Me and Momma snuck off for an hour and went to the crappie hole a couple weeks ago. I had illusions of other activities but the crappie bite was smoking hot and the poison ivy was thick so we just fished. Caught right at 50 in an hour including three monsters that she caught. The big one was 17 1/4” and a hair over 3lb. About 15 minutes after this pic him and 18 of his friends were released into 350F peanut oil. A few cold ones and a good time was had by all.

Teaching class. Someday maybe they’ll clean them while I watch.
And occasionally I even get to catch a one or two.

Another post full of winning!

My earliest memory's of my father were fishing.

Caught Jim C's video this morning and now your great pics.

This is why I hang around here!

That’s called life lived the right way.

Well done.

Those are some world class crappies!!!! Beautiful fish. Beautiful family and some great memories. Thanks for posting

That's a slammer crappie for sure.
Great work showing the little man the outdoors,and the whole family involved.
Well done sir.

Wonderful stuff! I am gratified to see him being allowed to use the gripper to hold the fish instead of making him "man up" and hold them, which in turn would make him shy about doing that when he is old and big enough to do so.

Damn that one your commander has in her right hand is a hammer 🔨!! Never seen crappie anywhere near that size up here

Heck yeah! Good times.

Hey Kid, that's awesome too !

You hadn't posted much about your wife, for a long time.

I was worried !

Glad she is doing OK Mate !

Thanks for thinking of her, she has good days and bad days, we just have to take it as it comes. She decided to go with us yesterday evening, I had a loader bucket to rebuild but it was calm so I decided it could wait.
We covered a bunch of water and had to work for the two we got but she managed two saugeye, a bluecat, and a crappie. I anchored us by a rock jetty and we crappie fished for a little bit after we gave up on trolling, got another dozen that I just ate for lunch.

These two dickheads are my cleaning partners, couple stray Tomcats that live in our alley. When the filet board comes out they’re Johnny on the spot waiting for their share. They get to fighting and I tell them if they aren’t nice I’m going to cut their tails off with the electric knife!

Great husband, father, life coach !

Pulling a Renfiddy with a live action report. Me and the boy are sitting by the lantern with the rods out. Pretty good bite tonight, 9 blues and a channel so far, probably roll them up at midnight. Had an otter come by a minute ago, first one I’ve ever seen at this lake.
Dude crashed out in his lawn chair about 5 minutes after this picture:)

Awesome!

Very cool!

The boys and I have fished the sound a few times this spring. Ain’t caught schit but beach crabs. Not even a cut throat or a bull head.
About time to hit some local ponds for crappie and stocker trout. At least there is some action there.

Bless you my son.