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Hit the SD River around 7:30 this morning and greeted with an overcast sky and a little coolness in the air. Worked a couple spots with action baits and worms and then headed out to a little point where the water is rally shallow and drops off a few feet on the edge of it. I put on a deep diving crank bait and started working the area and had something banged it and came off. This happened a few times and was bugging me because I would set the hook and nothing was there. So I started to work the bait a lot slower and landed 2 more crappie on it which was pretty surprising to me as the crank bait was not some tiny little bait. Anyway, not wanted to catch more crappie I started working a brush hog and some other plastics for a few bass. Before leaving I went back to the crank bait for a few final casts and finally landed a bass on it. Bass were not big but still fun. Catching crappie was the surprise of the day. What the heck??? A couple more...ha ha

I'll take some of those "not big" fish!

Nice fishing VinnyCrappie

foulhook wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 4:40 pm Nice fishing VinnyCrappie

"VinnyCrappie"...ha ha ha
Should have flipped a coin to post or not post those crappie....

I remember when Vinny was a bass fisherman! Next thing we know, he'll be fishing with a funny looking bobber and some minnows.......

Nice! I gotta go find some crappie!

Nice slabs! I fish so often for bass, when I get something else I enjoy the surprise!

Thanks for the report, some day I will figure out where you fish on that river.

tomnilll wrote: Mon Sep 21, 2026 8:15 pm Nice slabs! I fish so often for bass, when I get something else I enjoy the surprise!

Thanks for the report, some day I will figure out where you fish on that river.

I keep thinking of the ones that I missed because I couldn’t understand what was banging my crank bait. I probably could’ve caught a bunch more if I decided to stay there and throw a couple smaller cranks but I went fishing to try to catch bass. Still that was quite a surprise to catch them on that size of a crank bait.

Now we need a new forum just for Vinny and his crappie......

Great job, bass and crappie that crappie looks like good size, how do you get your boat in the river?

vito1023 wrote: Tue Sep 22, 2026 7:22 am Great job, bass and crappie that crappie looks like good size, how do you get your boat in the river?

Seen a dingy once years ago in the river, but there is no way on earth I could launch my boat in the river.
I am fishing out of one of my kayaks. The most practical way to fish there is out of a float tube, but I don't
have one.

Your pics are always a tackle store’s delight!! Appreciate seeing your weapons of fish destruction