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From what I see on weather.com, the Heid may be closed for a few days due to high winds.
I also fished with GH and from knowing the speed my boat trolls at idle, and he and I having comparable setups, he's going 3.5-4 mph.
I've got a 175 w/3 blade prop and it only trolls down to 3.7 mph.
If I drop the trolling motor in the water, that will bring it down to 3.2 mph.
If I want to get slower than that, I have to throw out a drift sock. That gets me down to about 2.5. Any slower and I have to use my trolling motor, that will get me from .1 to 2.3 mph.
So I guess we need to ask the enforcer how fast he was trolling the other day when he caught all those stripers. How 'bout it chicago?
And as far as those crappies go, the water is the right temp for them to spawn so I'm guessing they are staging on the flats out in the lake. It's just that we all fish for stripers, or muskies, or cats, or bass and no one I know ever targets crappie out there. There are probably some two and three pounders there if some great crappie fisherman ever searched them out.
Speaking of great crappie fishermen, one of which I am not, we fished Ky Lake last week and had some good ole boys hand us our butts when it came to catching crappie.
It's 2:30 in the afternoon, sun's hot no wind. We were in our badass bass boat, Humminbird SI 997, MinnKota Maxxum pro trolling motor, twin live wells, 175 Evinrude, $120.00 St Croix rods and fancy schmancy reels, tackle boxes with 4000 crappie plastics in each of them.
We're fishing the brush , (water's 62 degrees so the crappie are supposed to be in the brush on the banks in 1-2 fow, right) just barely enough weight on to cast the microlight bobber with a plastic and jighead.
We each have one in the boat after about two hours.
We round a bend into a shallow bay, maybe 32-36 inches of water. Flat, no structure, no brush, no cribs, nothin. Here's three "good ole boys" standing in water up to their butts holding a pole that's about 10 ft long with a little tiny spin cast reel on it. They have about 18-24" of line hanging down from the pole with a tube jig in it. They'd set that tube jig down and hold it with about 6-10 inches of line between the pole and the water. They'd hold for about 30 seconds then they'd shake the heck out of it and then just hold still again. If they didn't get a fish, they'd pick it up, swing over about 5 ft and do it again. In the next hour while we were within sight, they probably caught 30 nice sized (12" or so) while my buddy and I caught ..........................none! And they went right through the areas we had already fished.
So, if I ever go back to KY Lake, I'll have my waders and a 10' Wally Marshall crappie rod with a tiny spincast reel on it!!! And I'll save a ton of money on gas in the boat!! What I DON'T spend in gas will pay for a set of neoprene wader, crappie rod and reel, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a whole bunch of plastic!!
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