Bass fishing had been pretty slow in our area. Ted (Soonerbass),
Chunsum (JC Crappies), and I decided that kayaking for crappie might be a better
idea. A cold front passed just an hour before we started and I actually did not
think we were going to do much of anything.
We put in and it was still dark with mist on the water, God
I love that. Ted and a few others have been throwing crappie thunders for
sometime. I have never liked the way they look or their action. These guys
crush fish on them so I have joined the Thunder wagon.
Wal-Mart sells them pretty cheap in about three color
combos. JC made a smart move and bought similar bodies from Strike king.This
way he does not have to keep buying whole baits and can reuse the heads after
the bodies get shredded.
The bite was slow but not terrible. Considering I was
expecting the skunk, I was pretty happy to hook up. All three of us were
hooking bass. I would like to say that bass was our target and in our genius we
decided to use smaller crappie baits, but the truth is we only caught a few
crappies.
I had brought minnows because of the cold front and my low
expectations for the day but they only caught a couple fish. However, one of
them was a beautiful 19 bass!
The crappie thunder out produced live bait even in tough
conditions I was a bit taken back by that. I really thought I would be double
minnowing it and only catching crappie.
I am now a thunder addict and it will be a go to on
most of my crappie trips in the future.
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