5150fishn
05-19-2012, 10:14 PM
Here is my Xplicit report of today's Irvine lake Crappie Classic. Some of the usual suspects and I camped out inside the lake last night and fished the tourney today. As usual last night was a blast with great friends and awesome grub. Woke up this morning to surprisingly warm weather. Jumped on the boat with Seechrisfish and off we went. We decided to troll for trout first thing because the tourney weigh in for crappie wasn't until 5:00p.m. so we figured we had plenty of time. We headed down the west shore and pulled up next to Tapersteve who seemed to immediatly hook up on a trout. That guy has skillz. He was trolling leadcore and Chris and I were flatlining. The water was around 71-73 degrees today so deeper was the way to go but we weren't set up for that so we trolled once around the lake for no luck and then headed to the flats to start on the crappie slayage! We did see plenty of trout being caught today by others. Josh and Hometown were already in the flats making a go of it. So Chris and I started drifting the flats with Berkley pearl white grubs tipped with meal worms about 5 ft. under a bobber. It didn't take long to get a bite and my bobber went under. I quickly set the hook but it appears that the fish only had the meal worm and stripped me. No worries it's early still. Well that was just about it for me and Chris today. We both walked away with the skunk today. I definatley need to work on my crappie skills. I guess we should have gone to Marlon Meade's seminar a couple of days before the tourney!LOL
Our bro Josh had a good day and took third I believe for the biggest stringer today and walked away with some cash for his troubles. Saw Kewly today running around in the Stealth Patrol boat keeping tabs on everyone. I think it is pretty sweet! You won't even see them coming so don't break any rules and you have nothing to worry about! All in all a great day on the water regardless of the skunk. I still was fishing at my favorite lake with great friends and the Irvine lake staff and the Berkley staff really went out of there way to make this a great event. I just need to brush up on my crappie skillz.
5150fishn out!
Our bro Josh had a good day and took third I believe for the biggest stringer today and walked away with some cash for his troubles. Saw Kewly today running around in the Stealth Patrol boat keeping tabs on everyone. I think it is pretty sweet! You won't even see them coming so don't break any rules and you have nothing to worry about! All in all a great day on the water regardless of the skunk. I still was fishing at my favorite lake with great friends and the Irvine lake staff and the Berkley staff really went out of there way to make this a great event. I just need to brush up on my crappie skillz.
5150fishn out!