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    moonnette2005 Guest

    Default new to crappie fishing


    can anyone tell me if the spawn in the discovey bay area has happend yet?

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    Hi there moonette2005, Welcome to the board, you will learn a lot about crappie fishing here. Where in the state are you located. I'm not familiar with Discovey Bay...


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    I think they should start to hit now at Discovery Bay.. i remmeber fishing there and accidently catching a crappie there.. this was many years ago but it was about this time because i remember thinking about how school year was ending soon...

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    The reason I"m asking is, my father and I went out on friday(5-5-06)and tried dipping jigs around the docks but caught nothing until we gave up and started trolling 1/2 oz. rattle traps for stripers about 20" off the docks and instead of stripers, we ended up with 8 crappie, all over 2 lbs. Are these fish in a prespawn pattern, and if so what water temp. should Ilook for? Discovery Bay is in the West Delta regieon of the Bay Area.

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    Wow eight two pounders, spawn or no spawn that is a good day of fishin. Water temp should be around 60* How deep where you trolling? What time of day? Sunny/clowdy? What ever you were doing is what the fish wanted. right bait, time of day, right conditions. Keep doing it...


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    We were happy to say the least! We were fishing early morning in 10-12 feet. The baits, (Rattle Traps) were dragging bottom at times, and yes we will be going back this weekend. Hopefully the water temp. will be right. Thanks for the info.

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    moonnette2005,
    This site might be handy for delta water temps.
    http://www.lauritzens.com/water/Water.asp
    .....lee s.

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