I love learning new fishing stuff. Whether it’s a new lure/bait, new fishing tactics, new fishing spots, or chasing new species I have never caught before. Maybe it’s the new adventure of it all that draws me. However, many days it ends with me scratching my head trying to figure out what the heck just happened. Long days, long drives, long walks and a lot of hours can often end in frustration when exploring anything new in the fishing world.
However, it’s also that unknown possibility of finding the jackpot of a great bite or some big fish that no one else is fishing that also draws me. It’s that occasional reward that keeps going through the long drives and long days. Well this past week, I found one of those rewards fishing a completely new body of water.
I have been exploring some of the backwaters of the Mississippi on P3 in search of panfish. Many of these areas I have fished in open water for early season walleyes but I know that this area of the river holds some nice panfish so they have to go somewhere in the winter right?!
After getting on a nice crappie bite last week (see video link 2) I kept exploring new spots, drilling out football fields of holes and fishing them with my flasher and also exploring them with my camera. Well what I found was the holy grail of fishing finds (video 1). I was (and still am) ecstatic! Instead of boring you with more of my writing I will let the videos and pictures do the talking!
Video 1: A rare find of a crib stacked with nice panfish
Video 2: On a nice crappie bite!
Attached are a few pics of fish I caught on these adventures
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