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was out again today- not much luck. I stopped at my dad's shack off of bird island about 3:00 and didn't graph any fish, so I headed north drilling as I went. finally I graphed some fish in the hole on the east side of cigar island. Set up shop, and nothing. In fact, I only caught two small crappies which took a lot of effort and time to get them to bite. I was graphing fish the whole time,some times they would fill up the bottom 3-4 of the 6 foot zoom on the vexilar. Also they wouldn't touch minnows, only eurolarve with the glow jig. Even then they really didn't want to bite.
O.K. I am done venting. Anyone else having any luck on the "dead sea".

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went out for 6 hours today and only caught 3 dink perch, was marking fish every once and a while but nothing would bite. im sure the sleds zipping by didn't help any. hope i can make it out again with better luck.
good luck to all out there.

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smoore, where were ya at? west side? were going out again today/afternoon..evening for some fun maybe we can help. also for the don of c. did you get set up ok?

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we were on the west side out of CJ's right by the 40 foot hole. got out there at about 2 and left at about 8. if theres any good spots for crappie could someone give me an idea where on the dead sea that is. any help would be great.
thanks.

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Yes i did get set up. NE of wilson island. I must say nothing but crappies. 24ft fish at about 15ft cought around 25 craps but there not what i am looking for so i must move on. PS.AROUND 300PM SOMETHING HIT MY RATTLE WHEEL SET THE HOOK AND THE TEETH MUST HAVE CUT THE LINE SO OH WELL. GOOD LUSK

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I hate when that happens! (refering to teeth cutting the line) That happened to me twice this past weekend!

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Hello everyone!

The Crappies have deffenitely slowed down. The biggest key I have found is moving almost constantly. Graph fish first, do not even bother fishing unless you graph alot of fish. Fish the marked fish for 15-20 mins and than move and find more fish. It is ALOT of work, but it will pay off in fish in the bucket!
Good luck everyone!

Cory Frantzick

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