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Magnolia Crappie Club Adventures Magazine
From the Rabbit Hole - Rabbit Rogers

Enid Tournament September 21, 2019 Break, so the next order of business

was to find other
The Rog- spots. We did find
another spot that
ers/Jeffcoats held big fish.
team was
still on cloud Friday we
nine after launched at Long
the Barnett Branch and fished
Tournaments. in deep water and
We arrived at caught fish but
Enid Thursday not the quality fish
morning and in the upper end
decided to of the lake.
launch at By- Tourna-
num Landing. ment day we
Our idea was started at the 4th
to pre-fish the Break and caught
upper end of one tournament
the lake with- fish and a cou-
out having to ple of legal fish
run the lake. over 12 inches.
We headed When you have
to the fourth to measure fish
stand of trees you’re not doing
above Water Valley Landing where too good. Since boats were all around
several boats were fishing (they call it we finished the day close to where we
the 4th Break). When you know noth- started. With only three tournament
ing at all it’s a good rule of thumb to fish (15 inches) all we could hope for
head to where the boats are, and we was other tournament teams having
call several boats fishing close togeth- trouble catching quality fish. At least
er gaggles. we had seven legal fish to weigh.
We stopped short of where the I told Pat that the fish were not
boats were and started drift fishing biting too good, and he said, “wait
with six poles in 10 feet of water. till you get to the scales, they’ll show
There were mixed reports on what to you.”
use, jigs or minnows. The fishing re- I don’t know exactly what it is,
port was trolling or pulling crankbaits but at 78 years old I still feel like a kid
16 feet deep. We caught a few fish on tournament day. When everything
in 8 to 10 feet of water and knew we comes together, and you win a tourna-
were in good company seeing John ment, you are hooked for life.
Mayo. John didn’t know who we were
until Pat said something to him. The
quality of fish was good in the 4th Rabbit

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