BP's 2024 Top Lure

2024 #1 Lure Was A Glow Demon

 2024 was a crappie year, as witnessed by a crappie lures/jigs being my the top producing lure for the year.  I caught 381 fish between ice and open water on a Glow Demon Jig and a minnow. The vast majority of those fish were crappie/silver bullheads. The Demon shined especially bright at the Grumpy Old Man Hole where it brought in 213 "silvers."  

2022 Top Lure: The Glow Demon

 

2021 was the year of T.H.E. Jig, a small panfish hair jig.

2022 was the year of the Glow Demon and Crappie Minnow, and it wasn't even close. This combo was my most productive lure in a year, catching me 721 fish, unseating T.H.E. Jig, which brought in 701 fish in 2021. T.H.E. Jig came in second this year, catching me 367 fish. As I said, it was a blowout.

Here is the breakdown of what I landed on the Glow Demon: 

 

  

Thank You, January!

My motto on a hot bite is to strike when the iron is hot. The bite was hot in January almost every time I went out. The minimum number of fish caught per hour during a trip last month was 6.4 fph, the only trip I took in the morning. The lowest fish per hour number for the evening trips was 11 fph. I set records for the number of crappies caught in a month and a year (865), average fish caught per hour in a month (15.74), and the average number of fish caught per trip in a month, 54.3, which blows away the previous record of 33.25, which was set last year. Crappie Minnows on a Bear Trax Glow Demon was the top producer with 379 fish. I have a minnow down at all times and when a pod comes through that wants minnows, that is all I have time to fish.

Another incredible fact about this January is that crappie were the only fish I landed all month in over 55 hours of fishing. I saw a few pike and one small sunfish on the camera and got bit off a couple of times.