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Yesterday I decided to take the day off from tying jigs and go use a few instead. The morning started off cold and slow. My fishing buddy, Eddie, was throwing Bobby Garlands and I was using Big Doc's Bugs. Two hours later and not a bite. Tried several different color combos with no luck. We decided to make a major move to a spot about 5 miles up the river. I caught a decent largemouth that broke me off once I got it in the boat. Just because, I decided to use a color I never use. I had made them because it was my old high school colors and I thought it looked good. BINGO!!! The crappie thought so too. I caught 5-6 to Eddie's zero before he had to have one. Then it was really on. We caught well over 100 and brought 29 home for a nice warm bath (in oil). Both of us tried switching colors a couple of times and they wouldn't touch it. Back to the purple and it was a fish nearly every cast. We doubled I don't know how many times.  
"You Can't Catch Em If Your Bug Ain't In The Water!"
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Leupold Pro Staff
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Good stuff! Was the water dark?
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Not muddy but as daddy used to call it "milky"
"You Can't Catch Em If Your Bug Ain't In The Water!"
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"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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�Are you gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie�. - Josey Wales
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How deep are the fish now and what were they relating to?
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12 point
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Wisdom doesn't always come with age.
Sometimes age shows up all by itself.
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Great catch. Glad someone got to go out.
I had to work.
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“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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How deep are the fish now and what were they relating to? They were in 20-22 feet of water suspended at about 12 foot near structure.
"You Can't Catch Em If Your Bug Ain't In The Water!"
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Good catch. I see you got a mixed bag of black & white crappie. I'm glad to see the whites are slowly coming back. We've caught more whites the last 4 or 5 yrs. than we've caught in the past 10 or 12 yrs.
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Good catch. I see you got a mixed bag of black & white crappie. I'm glad to see the whites are slowly coming back. We've caught more whites the last 4 or 5 yrs. than we've caught in the past 10 or 12 yrs. We had a couple of the black nosed as well.
"You Can't Catch Em If Your Bug Ain't In The Water!"
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Freak of Nature
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Good job! I wanted to go today but had too much to do around here to get the boat wet.
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"To be angry is to be alive. I love it. Anger is better than love. I think it is more pure,". Al Goldstein
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Ive never tried purple for crappie but I like it for bass.
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cool, I've been catching them on BG eclipse baby shads, similarly dark in color.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Never used purple much but I'm a black and chartreuse guy. I got about 20 packs of slider grubs that slider sent me last year and I think I've got some different combinations of purple in there I may try
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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Cottontop do you pour your own jigheads? I need about a 1,000 but my regular guy is getting out of it
We will burn that bridge when we get there
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