Birds fishing

Dang birds are trying to eat all the bait fish in my brush pile. I chum / feed with dog food and range cubes to keep shad and shiners around my fishing pier

Real Fisherman

A real fisherman never lets weather slow him / her down

Lake Conway Frozen

High water xmas 2009

xmas 2009: Some people were looking for snow - I was up most of the night watching the water rise - hoping it would not make it to my front door. Going to have to put on duck hunting boots and see if my boats are still floating in the boat house

Birds eating shad

Birds - mainly American white pelicans are eating tons of shad that are around my place. No matter ! - cause with so many shad in the area - the fishing has been impossible - plus it's been too cold for an old softy like me

For past week any where from a couple dozen to about 100 white pelican's have been eating hundreds of shad a day - I have about an hour of video but I hate long video so I cut out 2 minutes (no video should be more than a couple minutes IMHO :)

Slower now

Still had luck on 27th 28th 29th but 30th was rainly cold and no fish - then on Dec 1 (Tues - very slow but got 8-9 crappie and only 3 were keepers). Now past week the shad have taken over i.e. there are thousands and thousands of shad so the crappie are not hungry. Still catch a few yellow bass but nobody wants them

Expecting another cold spell maybe it'll run off the shad so the crappie will be hungry again but in past years the crappie have not 'returned' - I think they move to deeper water

Not expecting to catch but a few crappie a week in this time of year (combination of I'm not going out in the cold and crappie are not concentrated in front of my house anymore = bummer :(

Slow but some keepers

Last few days, the crappie fishing has been slow - at least the 'keeper size' have been hard to 'come by'

Still catch some too many yellow bass and small bream while trying to find the keeper size crappie but even those have slowed down e.g. all fishing slowed down with the lake 1 ft low

Typical day - get about 12-15 fish but usually only 5-6 keeper crappie

Today my fish pen had 16 fish and about 4 were really nice and other dozen were 9-10" i.e. most were small keepers. My neighbors had that many or more but they had a few that were on the 'smaller size'

Bottom line: not much to brag about so not posting or making video - but on other hand slowly putting some crappie / fish fry's in the freezer of neighbors.