A few more for the freezer

[6poundtest]

I had made plans for a trip yesterday afternoon with my usual fishing partner back on Thursday but he was unable to follow through (long story) so I took another solo trip to see what might be biting. Glad that I did! I got there and on the water at 4 and fished until dark at 6:30.



This nice crappie was the first fish of the afternoon and......(I'm pretty sure)... my first EVER fish on a roadrunner. I think it was also the big fish of the day at 11 1/2". I know others have good luck with them, but I don't think I've ever caught a thing except weeds on one. By the end of my trip, it also accounted for a couple more crappie and a bluegill.

I rowed around trolling the roadrunner as pictured, that same Stinger on a ball head and the usual grey stinger, also on a ball head, until I found an area holding loosely scattered fish. I dropped a marker and simply began to troll back and forth over a large area in the general vicinity and depth as the ones I marked. As I found a few tighter schools, I would try to jig them with a vertical presentation but had zero results that way. I did get one casting after trying to jig them up but trolling was what they wanted yesterday afternoon/evening.



The 2 green lures were the ticket at first; it wasn't until the sun went behind the hill that the grey began to hook 'em. It became the lure of choice for crappie and the one perch I hooked.



I kept a total of 4 'gills, 1 perch and 7 crappie. Keeper crappie were mostly around 10". I tossed back quite a few more short crappie and bluegills, too.
It was a more active trip than I thought it would be actually. Yesterday, it was pretty warm and relatively humid, and the surface water temperature was 64.

[Fishin' Fool MA]

Nice to hear you are getting out. Glad to see the results are good. Keep up the good work and the fishing gets better as the season gets closer to ice-up.
Tight lies to you.

[Slab]

Great report, thanks for sharing.

[Redge]

Nice report, those are sure pretty fish. You caught enough for dinner too!


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[Crestliner08]

Excellent report and some very nice crappie.

["G"]

You had a good day