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Post by Greenedog on Jan 10, 2020 15:13:36 GMT -5
The folks have been down south for almost 2 weeks now. From the reports I'm getting it sounds a lot like last year; some slabs from their dock and decent numbers on their morning outings on the river. For those of you new to the Florida crappie thread, my folks have been spending the winters in North central Florida for over 20 years and spend a good part of their time crappie fishing. They usually longline troll on the lakes but the past couple years the crappie have been in the river and they have been drifting with minnows. They stay in a small town called Astor that the St. John's River runs through. Almost 3 years ago I bought a place in Astor across the road from the place my folks lease and we get down there every chance we get. Thank goodness for those cheap Allegiant flights!    |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 10, 2020 15:14:26 GMT -5
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Post by daybreak on Jan 11, 2020 9:31:09 GMT -5
Ya baby, it's on now! Nice to see the Florida slabs. Love that plate of oysters, too!
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 12, 2020 2:31:46 GMT -5
Dad with another dandy from the dock today! It's funny that they hardly ever caught any nice ones off the dock until a few years ago. Quite a few years ago we would catch channel cats and stingrays and then they quit for a while and about all you could catch was bluegill and small crappie. The stingrays have moved back in along with the big crappie. Still hardly ever catch any channel cats.  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 12, 2020 2:40:15 GMT -5
I guess I should take that back about not catching channel cats anymore; I just looked back through the 2019 thread and dad caught 9 off the dock one day while crappie fishing. Chase and me caught a couple too.
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 16, 2020 20:32:24 GMT -5
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 24, 2020 6:39:27 GMT -5
Dad with another 2# plus catch! They aren't catching a lot but they are catching some quality fish.  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 25, 2020 14:02:10 GMT -5
Made it down here and Dad had just caught another 2 pounder off the dock!  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 26, 2020 9:12:33 GMT -5
Chase is on the board this morning with one just a minnow shy of 2 pounds. The bite is slooooow.  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 26, 2020 13:32:50 GMT -5
Ended up with 7 this morning. Just had a feast of grilled royal red shrimp now Chase and me are gonna take the yaks to the salt.  |
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Post by Greenedog on Jan 26, 2020 22:25:21 GMT -5
No kayak fishing today. The battery I had just replaced 18 months ago was bad in the explorer. Had to go to Daytona to Sam's to exchange it. Still under warranty so all good there. We then went to a couple different bait shops in search of fiddler crabs with no luck. Both guys said the sheepshead bite is to good right now, can't keep them in stock. Bought some sand fleas and shrimp and went to the Dunlawton bridge pier to fish but got skunked. A lady next to us did catch a nice black drum.
We're going going back over there in the morning with the kayaks to fish for anything that will bite.
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Post by Chase on Feb 3, 2020 20:08:29 GMT -5
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Post by Greenedog on Feb 3, 2020 20:31:33 GMT -5
Great pics Chase!
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Post by hilly on Feb 3, 2020 20:39:13 GMT -5
All great pics, but the third one down is a wall hanger for sure! Glad you all caught some fish.
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Post by strippitman on Feb 4, 2020 8:42:59 GMT -5
All great pics, but the third one down is a wall hanger for sure! Glad you all caught some fish. I agree with Patrick! |
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Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
