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05/18/2014
Top Fishing From Boat
Crappie
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05/18/2014
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I flew in to Albany new York Friday morning, went to visit family, Saturday morning my brother and I hit our favorite lake from childhood, and it was a blast.
we fished an unnamed 100 acre lake that my family likes to keep secret. I started off targeting the slab crappies that inhabit the lake and it was fantastic immediately. We started fishing at 6:00 am and the bite was on fire. I started off using a small hula popper, because my brothers gear was pretty limited, still worked great though! I caught and released about a dozen 9-12" black crappies before I caught a real slab 14", beast of a crappie. And it was on. I caught one after the other 9"-14" and slab bluegill of 7"-10" , I only caught 1 dink lmb and 1 13" lmb. After 4 hours my brother and I collected a couple bluegill for cutbait, and started targeting catfish and bowfin. Every 20 minutes we would get a slamming hit, but due to my brothers limited hook selection we had a very difficult time setting the hook. Finally after an hour he hooked into a beast, got it to shore got it onto the bank and fumbled it, it snapped his cheap 8lb test mono, and back in the water went about a 22" 4lb male bowfin, before we could snap a pic :/
I still had a blast, just wish I had my own gear with me. All told, I caught roughly 25 crappie, 25 or so bluegill, and 2 lmb. Looking forward to my next visit.


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The Quadfather
5/18/2014 10:24:00 PM
Wow! Great trip with your bro. Nice Crappie pics for sure!
jonb
5/18/2014 10:47:00 PM
Thanks, definitely had a blast.
FlyBassFisherman253
5/24/2014 7:59:00 PM
what county is this lake in atleast because we do not have bowfin up here brotha. unless its a new thing
jonb
9/23/2015 5:59:00 PM
saratoga county, yes there are bowfin in the hudson backwaters and on lake champlain, everyone calls them lings,which is incorrect.
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