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some may argue, but after seeing Maho and hearing the moans from some of the reservoirs and other waters, Whaley sure sounds like a winner!
today, Gregg , Jeff and I were on there and knew that a deep tube bite would be the best bet...and sure enough, it didn't disappoint us as we put 53 assorted bass and pickerel in the boat, plus 3 oddball panfish, including the biggest Crappie I have ever caught in my fishing life, a beautiful one and half pounder, that also took the tube in 25 feet of water!
our range was 17 feet or so to about 25 or a little more......a couple of bigger picks came out of 27 plus feet!!!!
tube bites are great to begin with, but doing that much deep tubing is just a gas!!!
in addition to that, we had a good 10 Bass that were over 2 pounds which for Whaley is excellent ( numbers not size over there).....
Gregg will have a couple of pictures to show with some of the victims, along with the good ol' surprise Crappie......
Time spent on the water with Gregg and Jeff are a barrel of laughs and fun......time passed quickly as usual......
there was also two other prominent bites today: early in the morning ( 8ish) there was a nice hard jerkbait bite over the decaying weeds.....and at various points during the day, Gregg had a nice deep diving crank attack, ala Hugefish style....
but the star was the deep tubing, and with the wind blowing on there like it was, it was not easy maintaining position for this, but we managed fine......in another post on this forum, Jerry the Bullfrog reports as he rented a jon on there today, but they would have had a very tough time trying to maintain boat positioning to do that deep bite.....
I'll let Gregg and Jeff come on with their comments and Gregg with a few nice pictures.......not necessarily the biggest fish, but some representative examples.......
today, Gregg , Jeff and I were on there and knew that a deep tube bite would be the best bet...and sure enough, it didn't disappoint us as we put 53 assorted bass and pickerel in the boat, plus 3 oddball panfish, including the biggest Crappie I have ever caught in my fishing life, a beautiful one and half pounder, that also took the tube in 25 feet of water!
our range was 17 feet or so to about 25 or a little more......a couple of bigger picks came out of 27 plus feet!!!!
tube bites are great to begin with, but doing that much deep tubing is just a gas!!!
in addition to that, we had a good 10 Bass that were over 2 pounds which for Whaley is excellent ( numbers not size over there).....
Gregg will have a couple of pictures to show with some of the victims, along with the good ol' surprise Crappie......
Time spent on the water with Gregg and Jeff are a barrel of laughs and fun......time passed quickly as usual......
there was also two other prominent bites today: early in the morning ( 8ish) there was a nice hard jerkbait bite over the decaying weeds.....and at various points during the day, Gregg had a nice deep diving crank attack, ala Hugefish style....
but the star was the deep tubing, and with the wind blowing on there like it was, it was not easy maintaining position for this, but we managed fine......in another post on this forum, Jerry the Bullfrog reports as he rented a jon on there today, but they would have had a very tough time trying to maintain boat positioning to do that deep bite.....
I'll let Gregg and Jeff come on with their comments and Gregg with a few nice pictures.......not necessarily the biggest fish, but some representative examples.......
