ScottV
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My fishing buddy and I pulled 1/8 oz pony heads using 6 poles this past Friday. We brought home 29 keeper crappie and threw back no telling how many small fish. The ironing board is still hanging in there.
Long Lining Success
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JUNGLEJIM1
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Nice mess of slabs. How wide is the ironing board ? Curious because that slab on the bottom looks at least 2lbs.
ScottV
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It's 14 inches wide. The bottom fish weighed 1 3/4 lbs. It was fun reeling her in with ultralight tackle. Lol
JUNGLEJIM1
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They're all fun but those bigger one's are really fun on ultralight tackle.
ScottV
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We had two black crappie in the box. The third fish in each row.
Fatman
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Nice mess of fish!!!!!!!!!! And shows that Pony's DO WORK!!!!!!!!!!
ScottV
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Fatman said:
Dang near work you to death. I bet we caught 100 hand sized crappie. They were fun on the light tackle though.
Hawnjigs
KISS
Yah, that sounds like work to me. How do you scale that many fish?
Looks like a 13" weighs only half of that 14"?
Looks like a 13" weighs only half of that 14"?
JUNGLEJIM1
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Yes the pony heads do work. The blade baits can be killers if the water isn't too cold. For me,once the water get's in the low 40's or colder the blade bite stops. I've caught a bunch using blade baits the past few years. The two black crappie seem wider then the whites of comparable size. I noticed that here as well. Even the little one's are that way.
ScottV
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Hawnjigs said:
The 29 on the table is all we kept and I filleted those with an electric knife. That bottom fish was a bit thicker than the others also. She would have been 2 lb if full of eggs.
ScottV
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JUNGLEJIM1 said:
Yea, the black crappie, specks, are more compact and are thicker than their white cousins. They seem to fight harder too. The specks stick to cover year round where the whites will migrate following schools of shad. When they are scattered following shad is when pulling crank baits or longlining jigs really pays off.
Radtexan
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Well done Scott,,,nice mess of sac's there....That board has got to have a bow in the middle by now 
LedHed
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WTG Scott!
Nice bunch of fish - those are some chunks!
StumpHunter
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Nice catch Scott. Longlining and pony head jigs are a winning combo on crappie and if your lake has white perch they will bite them too. Congrats on the catch.
ScottV
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Thanks guys, it's a fun way to fish. With 6 poles fanned out off of the back of the boat and the I-Pilot set on 1 mph, all I have to do is reel in fish. Lol
Jig Man
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Nive...
StumpHunter
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ScottV said:
I know y'all had a blast. I run 8 rods out the back and at time all of them will have fish on.