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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:14:36 AM

Title: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:14:36 AM: A friend of mine goes done and stays at Brownlee Reservoir down by Baker City, OR every year in the month of May.
He always brags how good the crappie fishing is down there so I decided to check it out. Drove down for 2 days of fishing.

Caught a lot of crappies, smallmouth bass. Caught close to 100 crappies a day in 4-5 hours of fishing. Beautiful area and a very good fishery.

Attaching some pics .
Not the best pics Using a cheap point and shoot digital camera
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:17:48 AM: And a few more pics....

Crappie fishing slowed down so decided to catch some big suckers for fun
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Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:20:24 AM: Coolers from 1st and second day of fishing
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Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:27:10 AM: Used flies and jigs

Cleaning fish.
An Electric filet knife really helps

Finished product.

I like eating the eggs too!
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:30:30 AM: Sorry for the double photo post
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Post by: Austrian Hunter on May 16, 2010, 11:43:32 AM: Nice, that looks like you had some good fishn there!
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 16, 2010, 11:52:15 AM: Fishing was very good. I saw one couple in a boat catch crappies on every cast for over an hour.
they must have caught close to 200 fish.

Good catfishing area too. Did not have time to try for them

Saw a lot of carp spawning in the shallows. Wish I had my bow.

Having a fish fry with the neighbors tonite
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Post by: bowhunterforever on May 16, 2010, 03:50:25 PM: Now thats some good crappie fishing :fishin:
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Post by: rasbo on May 16, 2010, 04:08:16 PM: hope ya come on the huntwa catfish trip june 3,4,5,6, lyons ferry
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Post by: PA BEN on May 16, 2010, 07:19:59 PM: Do you cook the eggs?
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Post by: Machias on May 16, 2010, 09:17:24 PM: Nice!!!! That's it I have a couple of friends who go down every spring and rant and rave about how good it is!! Road trip!!!! :) Thanks for the photos!
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 16, 2010, 10:57:03 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on May 16, 2010, 07:19:59 PM
Do you cook the eggs?

I used to love fried perch eggs!!!!!!
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Post by: PolarBear on May 16, 2010, 11:03:05 PM: Awesome! those little turds are a ton of fun to fight with UL gear. I'm jealous!
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Post by: ICEMAN on May 17, 2010, 06:56:08 AM: I definitely need to try that one of these years, thanks for posting!
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Post by: Panic Minnow on May 17, 2010, 12:38:49 PM: We just got back from there, and caught over 100 crappie, and a few big catfish. It was a blast, but a long drive from Puyallup. I will try and post some pictures of the catfish and crappie. Next time I think we are going to try catfishing a bit more than crappie fishing, as we saw one that was 27Lbs caught. It was pretty big.....
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Post by: Dustin07 on May 17, 2010, 03:30:32 PM: nice, thanks for sharing the pics. I've never gone after pan fish specifically before but have kept perch I caught on accident. good eatin.
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 18, 2010, 10:53:51 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on May 16, 2010, 07:19:59 PM
Do you cook the eggs?

I did in flour and butter and were good
Quote from: rasbo on May 16, 2010, 04:08:16 PM
hope ya come on the huntwa catfish trip june 3,4,5,6, lyons ferry

Will try and make it. Would love to go this year

You guys need to go down and check out this fishery.

I am up for a road trip when you guys are. I know camping areas and have an idea where to fish
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: Gobble Doc on May 20, 2010, 09:28:17 PM: Those sucker pics bring back memories of growing up as a kid on the Columbia. I was stuck in a loop of collecting nightcrawler's and then fishing for those things after school. I could never get enough.
Title: Re: Nice mess of Crappie
Post by: ribka on May 20, 2010, 09:34:06 PM: I grew up in Wisconsin and as a kid used to catch them ( suckers) with our hands at night, using a lantern, when they spawned in the local streams. My Mom would can them or my Dad would smoke them. Good eating.

Pretty good fighters and not too difficult to catch