Smithville report 11/3/17

[Dave P.]

Well....I wish I could give a good report but I can't. Put on the water at 8:30 am and it was cold. Had 34 degrees on my truck thermometer. I was the only trailer at Little Platte ramp. Fished some old stand by brush piles on the main lake and did not get one bite. I tried deep and shallow ones and it didn't matter. I finally went into sail boat cove and hit a brush pile close to the boat slips and started to catch some small ones. Started to pitch jigs on the sides of the slips and started to pick up a lot of short fish. When I left there I had 4 keepers and they weren't big ones either. I ran over to the Camp Branch side and hit several more brush piles with no luck. Decided to call it quits around 12:30. On the way in to the ramp I fished the slips closest to the ramp and no bites. Threw the fish back in the lake and headed home with a big piece of humble pie eat on all the way back to St. Joe. Oh....and my trailer was still the only one at the ramp when i went in.

What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were killing them on the same brush piles I fished yesterday. Do you guys think the crappie fishing has been down this year. It sure has been for me. Dave

[peculiarmike]

Yeah, but you went fishing.

[jigfisherx]

I was at work. Count your blessings.


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[dfar]

I was home wishin I was fishin. Thanks for the report.

[Clownfish]

Went out this afternoon for a couple hours had about the same luck, pretty slow. Nice day on the water, no wind and very few boats.

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