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Shakespeare micro series I bought from Walmart.

Mainly the Clinch side. But I’ve started fishing the Powell side to explore what’s over that area, but I haven’t had any good videos to put together fishing the Powell, yet.

I’m at a campground close to the clinch side but I’m on the Powell side there’s really good crappie fishing up the river

Thank you for the prayers, friend! And thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the video. Wasn’t too much action to start off with, but after the bass tournament fishermen left the bite slowly started to pick up, as you seen. Have a blessed one bud! 🤙🏼

I bet you have protests at every bass tournament gathering you see, then. Haha! Cmon bud. This guy handled that small mouth about as gently as any angler could.

Handled it respectfully.

Obviously you don’t know anything about fishing!!

The best name I have heard anybody call them is ‘DINNER’. 😂 that’s some good eating pulling in some 2 lb slabs. 🤙🏼

It’s always a toss up between yellow perch and crappie. Haha! All of ‘em some delicious eating fish, regardless. 🤙🏼

I appreciate you tuning in and enjoying watching the content! Simplicity is all it takes, most of the time, to catch dinner for the family. 🤙🏼

It’s a pleasure to get to meet you bud, and I can’t thank you enough for the support sharing my page to all of your friends! I’ll be all over the place for the next few months, so we’re bound to come across each other again. Keep them lines tight bud! 🤙🏼

Great profile pics of them slabs, Domingo! And, thanks for watching my video, friend! I’ll be in Ohio this weekend fishing for Crappie and walleye with a good friend of mine that lives there. I hope to bring you some awesome footage from that trip, too. Take care bud! 🤙🏼

I only used that setup, because of a fishing trip prior where I was fishing it 6-10 feet deep. Plus, it’s a neat setup I wanted to share, regardless of the depth you’re fishing in. Thanks for watching my video! 🤙🏼

Your hallucinations is a direct result from working too much. You need a vacation, sir. Haha!

Don' ya know it@@CrappieKev

Is hard to tell if the jigs got a good hook set, until you pull ‘em in. I’ve lost too many fish where they’re just a couple feet from being pulled in. It’s also a peace of mind when I’m fishing to bring fish home. The beauty of fishing is there’s no wrong way to fish, except when you’re doing it illegally.

They are called paper mouths for a reason 🤦🏾🤷🏾better safe than sorry

Now I know that had to of been a heck of a fight! 🤙🏼

I get most of mine at Academy Sports and Outdoors. There’s some that I get out of Big Fish Outfiiters when I travel over to melton hill dam. I hardly buy anything out of Bass Pro Shops, truly. Lol

@@CrappieKev thanks buddy!

Was that you with the live minnows?

@@CrappieKevsure was!

Heck yeah bud!! Good to see ya out fishing! Sorry I didn’t know that was you. I didn’t think to bring my camera or record anything, just because I was wanting to get out and relax. But the fishing yesterday wasn’t the greatest, either. Haha! Did you end up having to talk to the Game Warden before you left?

It sure was! I was bracing for a tornado to come take us all out with how strong that wind was. Haha!! Thanks for watching, friend! 🤙🏼

Hey James! Thank you for stumbling across this video and enjoying it! So to answer your questions: *The smaller jighead to use for these crappie is simply to match the size of the shad the crappie are going after. When I was using a 1/32nd oz jighead with a 2 inch Bobby garland, I wasn’t getting any hits at all. It was crazy, because the color was exactly the same! A couple weeks back I put up a video that shows exactly what shad they were going after. It was evident that the shad they were feeding on weren’t any bigger than that. When you use a smaller jighead, bend that hook to where the point is facing over the eyelet to allow you a higher chance to hook into huge crappie. *The split shot does help cast further distance, despite how small it is. More weight = more distance, no matter how small the size is. But! What helps cast farther distances with tiny setups is the fishing rod. It’s a 7’ light action rod, where the tip barely holds firm enough to when you whip that rod towards where you want your bait to go, it helps sling that line out in a whiplash affect.

That’s right buddy! 🎶 Good Ole Rocky Top WOOOH Rocky Top, TN!! 🎶

Thanks bud! I’m glad you enjoyed the video! I’ll be out on my little bass tracker boat from time to time. I don’t fish Norris much, to be honest with you. But, within the next month, I’ll be putting in at Anderson County Park to target smallmouth in the evening and walleye at night. If you see a guy in the middle of the night throwing a cast net within that swimming area, it’s most likely me. Haha! If you’re there, come onboard bud! 🤙🏼

I’ve caught the best sized Crappie, thus far, fishing in that rain. Haha! I was drenched, but I had a ball, buddy! Thanks for tuning in and watching my video! God bless you, friend! 🤙🏼

Thanks bud! I’ve always heard people say the fish bite best when it rains, so I had to put it to the test. Haha! I hate I couldn’t get any other type of fishing rig and technique to work here lately. But this has been the only setup and technique that’s been working on Norris Lake for me for the last few weeks now. Thanks for stopping by and watching my friend! See you later Domingo! 🤙🏼

Thanks for the positive feedback bud! Yeah, it don’t take much for that rain to get you sick if you stay in it long enough. I suppose working in the rain in all my years delivering Mayfield and Weigel’s milk has helped me get used to being cold and wet. Not that it doesn’t make me sick, because it does from time to time. But, I’m used to it now, I guess. Haha! Thanks for stopping by and watching my video friend! You take it easy and God bless! 🤙🏼

I’m sorry the luck hasn’t been on your side with that setup bud! I’m sure you know how Norris Lake is, though. When you’re hot, YOU’RE HOT! And when you’re not, YOU’RE REALLY REALLY NOT!!!! The location I’ve caught them out of is relatively flat and muddy bottom. There’s not a distinct creek channel that flows into that spot. So it’s pretty much a massive pocket of shallow water for the bait fish to get trapped in. If you can find a body of water going up into a large size pocket, regardless if there’s a creek channel in it or not, with relatively shallow and muddy bottom with a couple brush piles in the depths, you might be able to locate the Crappie that way. Where there’s warmer water, there’s more bait fish. Give it about another week or two with these unseasonably warm temps, and you’ll see the Crappie start to scatter across the tops of the waters. More-less their average depth they’ll suspend in will be about 2 feet under the surface.

Thanks for taking the time to reply with that detailed info. I’ll definitely keep that in mind when I give it another shot.

@@spookiehyperbole7510yeah bud, no problem! Lords blessed me too much in my life to not help others out. I may not give out exact locations of where I’ve been fishing at, but for the most part, I’ve had these techniques work in all places across Norris, Melton Hill, Watts Bar, Fort Loudon, and Tellico Lake. And when it gets warm, the lower river systems and creeks that feed into them are dynamite locations! 🤙🏼

That’s always been a funny fact of fishing! Haha. Sorry for the bad audio from the rain and wind. I tried my best to make it where everybody could understand what I was saying. Thanks for watching bud! 🤙🏼

@@CrappieKev It's real, down to Earth type of videos like this that I like. You can't control the weather.....or can you??

😂 I mean 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ Maybe. Maybe not? Nobody may never know…

I couldn’t be happier to help take that picture of you and that huge fish you caught! I’ll keep my eye out for you when I go back fishing to see if you need some help again. Haha! Have a great day and keep them lines tight, amigo! 🤙🏼

Micro jigs sometimes doesn’t have good hook sets in their mouths. Sometimes the moment you pull the fish out of the water, the full weight can cause that hook to fly out of its mouth. Sometimes I can see if the hooks set good and will pull them out. The times I don’t, I grab the dip net. Plus, I use 4 lb test line. That tension could pop the line as well. Better safe than sorry when you intend to bring fish home.

Absolutely!!

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Whaaat!😮

Amen to that, my friend! I appreciate all the thumbs up from you bud! But all these good things I’ve been able to experience when fishing couldn’t be possible without Him. To be able to have fun making these videos of this sport he’s allowed me to enjoy is never short of a blessing. My cup is always overflowing thanks to Him, when I don’t deserve it. But he loves us so much that when we put all our faith and love in Christ, our cups always overflowing. Thank you so much for finding my channel and enjoying the content bud! Keep them lines tight in Columbus, Ohio and God bless you! 🤙🏼

@@CrappieKev Oooooh you better know it, I use to just throw a minnow or worm out. And just hoped something bit it, for 25 years, but I found out about you "insane" teachers on U TUBE. Teaching about fishing, and I've been "just" like the Crappies you were snatchin out. "HOOKED," and I'm eating it all up, so once again, Thanks for sharing your love, and knowledge of fishing. I can't wait to get out to Griggs Reservoir in a couple of weeks.

Buddy I sure appreciate you tagging along with me! Always a pleasure seeing your name pop up when you comment. Have a great day bud! 🤙🏼

It never ceases to amaze me how micro jigs and grubs as such can help catch HUGE Crappie with the right modifications like that.

Well…. You’re not wrong. Haha! He showed up, looked at Ole Red with all the fish in it and said “you little sh… stinker.” 🤣😂

Buddy it was a great day of fishing! The bite will be hot from here on out ‘til they spawn. Then they’ll go a little deeper each week the water temps warm up more and more. Caught a limit worth within an hour. The rest of the time I didn’t have the camera on after catching a limit I was still catching keeper after keeper. Truly was a blessing!

Definitely blessed! Im on Cherokee lake, crappie fishing has progressively gotten worse the past 4 years.

Oh no! I didn’t know Cherokee’s been declining. I have never fished for Crappie at Cherokee, but I’ve always assumed it was a good Crappie fishing lake. Regardless of the fishing status in that lake, I hope you get out and catch all the crappie you can my friend!

I live on Norris and can never find crappie I always have to travel to melton hill I don’t want to steal your spot but roughly where is this I think I live on the wrong end of Norris😂

If you live in the Sharps Chapel area, there’s been some luck out of Stiners Woods area a few years back for me, but it’s a little late for the Crappie to wonder into those backcreeks for now. You may get lucky catching a couple here and there, but if the shad isn’t in the pockets around Stiners Woods, I wouldn’t waste time there.

It’s a Bass Pro Shops ‘Dough Bait’ 6 ft rod, ultra lite, fast action. The rod and reel combo was cheap when I bought it. It only costed $30. But it’s actually a decent working fishing rod and reel for the price! 🤙🏼

My hope is you read in my description all of the time stamps of when I caught the fish to avoid any time you didn’t want to waste listening to me talk in the long moments I wasn’t catching fish. Nevertheless, thank you for your time watching my video. Maybe some of my shorter fishing videos will suit to your liking better. 🤙🏼

Sounds like a good plan bud! I’m about to start fishing Norris lake again now that the weathers getting a little warmer than average. My hope is the crappie will start to migrate towards the shallow area again like they did last year, and catch the heck out of them feeding off shallow water shad. Thanks for watching my video bud! 🤙🏼

@@CrappieKev I mainly fish the area around Powell Valley Marina. I haven’t fished any further south than that. But I’ve caught some very good crappie in that area.

Thanks for the positive vibes bud! Yeah, some people complain when a fisherman culls crappie and other fish, despite that it’s perfectly legal to do so here. I don’t really worry about what people have to say that’s negative, when nothing wrong has been done. I keep fish past a certain length, just for my own sake of peace of mind. To each is their own, as long as it’s legal (like you said) is my philosophy. Thanks again for watching bud! 🤙🏼

Well bud, I guess you better check again, because you missed ‘em. I even have in the description of the times I caught fish. If you didn’t see any fish I caught in this video, I feel sorry for you.

Oh believe me, that’s exactly what I do anytime I’m fishing with jigs and underspins. I already had these jigs on from the last fishing trip, so I never bothered to mention about how I bend my hooks. Lol. Thanks for watching my video bud!! 🤙🏼

Buddy I sure do appreciate the kind words! Really glad you’re enjoying the videos and I’m hoping this thaw out will allow me to go out fishing this Wednesday. I normally launch from melton hill dam or carbide park when I go to melton hill. A lot of times when I launch in the kayak, I’ll go out where the oak ridge rowing club is just above bull run steam plant and fish some deep pockets. Even launch at bull run creek and fish those docks and some deep pockets through that creek channel, too. There’s a couple pockets at solway bridge going down stream that I’ve hit up a few times last year where I got into some shell cracker and big ole bluegills! I didn’t have a video of them, but Shellcracker is another delicious fish I like to go for once in a blue moon. 🤙🏼

@@CrappieKev appreciate it brother cool to see someone making content on my home water hopefully I run into you one day. Appreciate the advice brother!

I did briefly thought about that after I got into that pile of crappie. Only reason I didn’t do it was because of how clear that water was. I was too afraid to spook them just by them seeing me. But one thing I agree with you is the motor noise doesn’t really affect their bite. They hear boats go by all the time. To them, it’s almost natural to hear boat noises, so they aren’t as skittish about that than other fish would be. Thanks for watching, by the way! Hope you’ve been safe and warm amongst all these winter storms and clippers coming through. 🤙🏼

River otters are really cool to see…. Until you remember you’re fishing and that amongst a muskrat and beavers are huge fish scarers. Haha!

Haha, you should’ve seen the work I had to put in to getting the kayak to slide across all the ice that formed at the ramp I put in at.