Yesterdays NOAA tabular forecast was showing the wind gusting from 11mph to 18mph starting at 9 am for Melvern Lake and it was showing the wind getting up to 11 mph with no gusts at Hillsdale Lake for Wednesday 5/21. Since a friend and I had fished Hillsdale Monday evening and had caught 13 legals we had originally decided to just go back to Hilldale today instead of making the hour and a half drive to Melvern which amounts to about $60 in my truck at todays gas prices.

Yesterday evening after checking NOAA's tabular forecast around 8:30 pm I saw that NOAA was now showing the wind for Melvern starting around 3mph and getting up to 9mph today I changed plans and decided on going to Melvern instead.

As it turned out we had a beautiful day at Melvern and had fourty crappie in the box by 1:45pm.

Here is some of Dougs better crappie.


Here is his total catch and weight





Some of my better fish


Total bag and weight




This is my catch with 7 fish at thirteen inches or better.


Some fishing days are better than others and for me days like this are few and far between especially for this year so far.

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Very nice catch!! Congrats!!

Great job guys and great pics!

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LBM....Do you mind me asking if you were catching those fish out a little deeper like the past couple times you have posted or were they up on the banks?

I say you made a good call on going to Melvern!

Looks like fish to me!!!!

Nice Catch.

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Pretty much like before. These were caught around brush on depth breaks running from 12 to 18 ft. I really enjoy casting the shore line during the spawn when on catch and release outings but know that I'll mainly be catching the smaller males fishing in that manner.

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Lee,,, Could you make the pictures a little bigger Nice catch and report!! <*)}}}><

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You'll see the difference,,,on the end of your line!

CC I'm still trying to learn the picture posting thing. Doesn't a bigger picture make the fish look bigger?

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nice fish guys.