Proof That The Crappie Are Biting

My dad and Albert Saik caught 21 today in a couple of hours on the Lake, including these. All were slabs. Full report at the first of the week.
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Great Day On The Lake

My dad, Sonny, got a new boat Tuesday that he had been wanting for a while. We took it down an put it in the Lake yesterday. We had fun breaking it in going after the crappie.

Using ulta lites and a black 1/16 horse head jig with a bottom spinner, along with chartreuse curly tails, we caught 25 crappie. The total weight of the fish was 42.14 lbs. I'll take that avg. any day.

We caught most of them in around 12 feet of water at different levels of that depth by varying the retrieval speed. Slower and deeper seemed to work better.

The only draw back was the action was the hottest at the hottest part of the day. We got on the water around 1:15. Between 2 and 5 pm was when we caught most of them, but it was worth it.

With the moon phase where it is right now, it is a peak time to be out fishing.

I hope to be able to be back down this week end.

A Couple Of Reports

I was able to go out some last week on the Lake and had a blast trying to figure out the crappie. I caught 16, of which 12 were very nice slabs. The other 4 were nice fish, but not the big boys like the rest.

I was using a curly tail on a 1/16 oz black jig head. I caught them on black and chartreuse colored Berkley 2 inch power grub curly tails , using a Zebco 11 ultra lite rod and reel combo with 4 pound line. I was casting and reeling back using different speeds until they told me what speed they liked. If I had a clue about crappie fishing I might have done a lot better.

It was a challenge and a lot of fun. Those were some fighting little buggers.

On the bass front, it wasn't so challenging because the bass are really schooling now and are fairly easy to find. I went out and caught about 12 in 30 mins or less.

I, along with Jimmy and Craig, have noticed we are catching some smaller bass more often. They are either a pound to a pound and a half or they are big fish. We are not seeing as many 2-4 pound fish as we were.

Craig went out Saturday with his 11 yr old son Jarrett and said he saw the biggest school of bass he's ever seen. Craig loaded the boat up on the bass while Jarrett fished deep with crickets and caught as many chinks as he could handle.

Although it's getting hotter out there, the fishing is just as hot.

Some Nice Crappie

I'm at the Lake the past couple of days. I'll give a better report when I get back home.

Here is what I've been having fun catching...............

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Fishing Report

Although they had to dodge the rain, Jimmy and my brother in law Craig went out Saturday and caught 22 bass.

They changed up a little bit and used some swimming jigs and buzz baits.

Fishing Reports

Although I can't seem to be able to get down to the Lake to do any fishing, others are having a great spring fishing. You have seen the reports from Jimmy lately and here are a couple more from Brad Blanks and my brother in law Craig Allen.

Brad did some bass fishing Thursday for a while that morning. He was using the blue black jig that has been deadly this spring. He caught 19 bass, but even better out of the 19 only 4 were less than 17 inches. That's a heck of an average.

Craig wen't out Sunday morning and caught 22 bass. Craig mainly went the crankbait route, although he did catch a few early on a buzzbait.

Craig and my father-in-law Paul also hit the bream Saturday and Sunday afternoon. He said they found a great Chinquapin bed. They caught all they could handle.

Brad also took his kids out bream fishing. He said they were on beds and it was easy to catch 10 as quick as you could get the bait in the water.

A few days ago we showed his little girl Abby with her first catch. Here is his son Thomas, 3, with his first rod and reel catch.....................................

Catching A Boatload

Jimmy Pickle and his nephew Jason Moore went out yesterday afternoon and landed 44 bass. Unlike the day before, they did get some shallow. They mainly used crankbaits and the trusty jigs.

Jason Moore with a nice fish..............................

The Boys Caught More Than Fish Yesterday

Jimmy and Glenn were back out on the Lake yesterday and had a decent day. Jimmy said the bass had moved deeper. They caught 20 something on the deep diving crankbaits.

The fish were all of about the "schooling size", none of the big boys they have been catching.

Jimmy did catch this nice crappie on a crankbait deep.


He also caught this...........................



He snagged this Quantum reel and rod with a crankbait in about 10 feet of water. He said it looks like it was recently dropped. Contact me if it is yours or you hear of somebody who lost one.