Thread: Today's fishing.

Water was stained to almost muddy. Water temp was 62.5 at 11 am when I got on the lake. Wind out of the west gusting to 15. Strong High pressure system overhead and pure sunny cold front day. Fish were very finicky as they would hit and not take the bait quite a bit. Lost a few before getting them to the boat as they just weren't hooked. About 2 pm it picked up a bunch and I caught about 40 keeping 9 keepers from 10 to 15". Did I say 15"? First one this year finally and she was loaded with eggs and none of today's females were close to being ready to drop. 3 of the males didn't even have tuxes on and none had been making a nest. All the fish today came out of 7' to 10' of water as that is where I finally found them long lining salted tubes with crappie nibbles injected in them, and today, the hot bait was clear chartreuse tubes as that was what the fish finally forced me into using. Last Friday, the wife and I kept 22 keepers longing and the difference was all the cold weather we been having had the fish stacked up and suspended from 10 to 20' thick. Had to quit and leave at 5 but by 4pm nothing but dinks was hitting. Black knats here are thick so quickly cleaning fish when I get home and didn't take no pics. Artificial vanilla is the only thing that keeps the buffalo knats away for about a hour. Use it or get ate up.

Cat, Coon, Monroe, Patoka, East Fork of White River, and Dogwood once. River would be better but too muddy so you have to hit it just right but it does have nice crappie scattered and not going back to Dogwood.