Great report! That’s why I love crappie fishing!
Its been a struggle I tell ya , being out of the outdoors for 4 or 5 days and off the water left me out of tune totally . I have struggled in spots I normally hammer fish and went home with my tail tucked on 3 occasions with only 3 fish . So I thought lets try the creek again , last visit Monday was very poor and I hear tell its getting really hammered on the weekends . I rolled up to not one vehicle there at lunch time and thought hmmmmmm, this might be tough .
Well I don't get discouraged easily ,but to be sure I couldn't ketch even a single fish for the first 30 minutes or so . I tried shallow, deep ,far out and close and fast and slow and never got a single peck ! I was about out of options and thought you know sometimes these fish sit in the current above the cover and lay in ambush . so I pitched to a spot I haven't tried and let it drift real slow back down stream and barely and I mean barely gave it a flick here and there , at one point the float slowly went under and I though I hung the log on the bottom and tried to pull it away before it got the hook in it and something pulled back?
I thought hey wait just a minute I felt a fish by golly , so I pitched it again and tried to do the same basic program and I saw the float just "tick" and set the hook and the party began . I wore them little ole crappie lips down one after another yawl and man did it feel good to lay the hammer on em . I think I managed around 30 maybe or more easily and one spotted bass and got bit almost every cast . it was for sure a very very specific presentation and ANY deviation of it didn't get bit . it had to drift real lazy and just barely barely flick once in while ,while it drifted and without a crappie nibble it was No dice . the bait had to be small and highly visible and about 20 inches deep under the float . the water depth is around 4 foot or so average right in that area now as the creek is dropping in depth fast these days .
so you see even though it was apparent the fish were not there from the initial observations , they in fact were there and just being tricky little crappie fish , never say never and to be sure don't give up on em , they may very well be there and just want everything to be so so ....all released and I would say about 2/3 were legal
stay tuned yawl but don't stay thirsty ....
p.s. a bud scouted a different location last night and found our fall/winter run fish in the dark in BIG numbers ....we will be visiting them soon ,so get out your head lamps , its about to get reeeeel ....
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Great report! That’s why I love crappie fishing!
Glad to see your back after them. Thanks for the pics!
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Johnny-b-ketchn'em again !!
Looks like ya found em good post
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Way to figure them out,nice catch!
Glad you are back at them and ketchin some quality fish thanks for sharing
Glad you're back at it. Always enjoy your posts about trips like I haven't made in a long time.
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