01-30-2004, 07:17 PM
Ya know, I thought about the fact that it may look like a carp minnow. I had no idea that there was a large carp spawn as you described though. The two things I thought about was maybe it looked like a carp or a baby white bass. It would make sense if there was a big carp spawn at that time though, because that is exactly when they were eating that crank. I'll bet those carp minnows are pretty good eatin' for the predators in the lake. They ought to just glide right down eh? I never thought about the carp spawn because I've never seen the clouds of carp fry. I know that I often see the dark clouds of catfish babies though. When I start seeing those, I do pretty good using a black single tail grub on a football jighead...looks just like those little cats.
That golden shiner crank rocked though. I'd tell people to throw a golden shiner colored lipless crank, so they would...but they'd throw the actual gold flashy colored ones...and they just wouldn't touch it! There was just somethin' magic about that yellow one. That bait caught several fish in the 4-6lb class and even accounted for one 6lber that should've been an 8lber. LoL. I hooked it, and it jumped only showing it's head, and I thought...there's my 8! When I lipped it and pulled it out of the water revealing the rest of its body though...it was all scrawny! lame...
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That golden shiner crank rocked though. I'd tell people to throw a golden shiner colored lipless crank, so they would...but they'd throw the actual gold flashy colored ones...and they just wouldn't touch it! There was just somethin' magic about that yellow one. That bait caught several fish in the 4-6lb class and even accounted for one 6lber that should've been an 8lber. LoL. I hooked it, and it jumped only showing it's head, and I thought...there's my 8! When I lipped it and pulled it out of the water revealing the rest of its body though...it was all scrawny! lame...
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