~*~ Lake Hopatcong Crappie 04-13-2015~*~

[Andrushkin33]

After a very short conversation with my friend I did what I never do ...skipped work in mid afternoon.

Target was crappie at Lake Hopatcong and boy did we put a dent in them.

Got to the lake around 4pm and stayed until 8:30pm.

Saw a lot of other people fishing and not a lot of them were getting into fish. Although was discouraged at first it all changed once we found a boatload of them. The bite was one and we saw everyone starting to migrate toward our spot. Overall got about 12 nice size crappies from 8 to 14 inches, couple of pickerels and a channel cat. One very nice pickerel snapped my friend line while doing somersault and flipping him off. Been a long while since I seen his line snap.

Great day to be out with couple of either eagles or raptors looking for prey.

NO fish porn sorry, no camera and dead phone but that's how it was planned to be.

Kudos for fathers being out there fishing with their daughters that we met last night. Best quote of the day was: " NO dad we are not leaving until I get a fish and I don't care if we have to stay all night "

Just a great day no way around it.