My BFF Terri (Jackback) and I fished a friend's 25 acre gravel pit off the Tallapoosa River yesterday. Dodging thunderstorms, we managed to fish less than two hours, but had a blast.
This gravel pit was reclaimed years ago, and the water is clear as St. Joe bay. Normally, extremely clear water is very infertile, but this lake is ringed by beds of peppergrass, which helps the foodchain. We were told by the landowner to keep everything we caught, and if we didn't want it, to just throw it up on the bank for the raccoons. He said the pond was overcrowded, and the bass were stunted. We were happy to oblige.
We fished from a 10 ft jonboat propelled by a trolling motor. Let me tell you, fishing from a 10 ft jonboat is like trying to have sex standing up in a hammock! Drink a few beers and just try to pee from one sometime.
Casting crappie jigs was not working for us, so we tossed jigs out the back and slow-trolled. We never went more than 50 yards without hooking chunky bluegills, skinny bass, or our target species- slab crappie. Ended the day with 7 crappie, 6 bluegills, and 5 skinny bass.
Terri was using a 1/16 oz blue ice grub, and I was using a 1/16 oz chartruese curly tail. The fish didn't seem to show a preference.
This gravel pit was reclaimed years ago, and the water is clear as St. Joe bay. Normally, extremely clear water is very infertile, but this lake is ringed by beds of peppergrass, which helps the foodchain. We were told by the landowner to keep everything we caught, and if we didn't want it, to just throw it up on the bank for the raccoons. He said the pond was overcrowded, and the bass were stunted. We were happy to oblige.
We fished from a 10 ft jonboat propelled by a trolling motor. Let me tell you, fishing from a 10 ft jonboat is like trying to have sex standing up in a hammock! Drink a few beers and just try to pee from one sometime.
Casting crappie jigs was not working for us, so we tossed jigs out the back and slow-trolled. We never went more than 50 yards without hooking chunky bluegills, skinny bass, or our target species- slab crappie. Ended the day with 7 crappie, 6 bluegills, and 5 skinny bass.
Terri was using a 1/16 oz blue ice grub, and I was using a 1/16 oz chartruese curly tail. The fish didn't seem to show a preference.