A small victory

[franklin fisher]

Fall can be hard to find the time to get out fishing around here. Too much time gets spent getting ready for winter and hunting season. However this year I got my wood stacked early and my final project of the summer accomplished back a while so I have made it out a few times in the past few weeks.

Unfortunately the few times over the last few years that I have tried fall fishing for Crappie have not been that successful. It seems the stuff I read or watch on YouTube doesn't apply to my local bodies of water. Where to find the fish this time of year isn't where others say to check. Recently I found an article online that among all the other tips, one stood out to me. "Look for them where they are in the spring at that particular water temperature". I referred to my journal that I keep and had a light bulb moment.

So I set out this morning for the spawning area, the one place I hadn't tried. Mostly because I have never seen them there except in the spring.

The air temp was a chilly 38 degrees this morning. Water temp was 49 degrees. The wind was blowing a little bit so I had to mostly fish with a controlled drift. Sure enough I found them in shallow between 4 and 6 feet of water near fallen in trees. It was tough to stay on them with the wind but picked up 7 and kept 6. Wasn't able to fish for too long as the wind picked up significantly. Off the pond after only an hour and a half of fishing. Good to finally find the fish again though. Fish fry tonight after the football game.



Sent from my SM-G530R4 using Crappie.com Fishing mobile app

[6poundtest]

Those are beauties!!

Glad you made it out and found 'em. Those little pearls of wisdom that pop up now and then are great, aren't they?

[Cane Pole]

My feet got cold just looking at the pics. Nice mess o fish.

["G"]

Good job...nice fish...good color to them

[SpeckledSlab]

​Nice mess of fish. WTG!

[ET Fish]

Nice fish!

[scrat]

Nice catch.

[sinkermaker]

Nice cats have and fine eating

[armyman]

Way to hang tuff in the elements! Great catch and beautiful fish!

[silverside]

Nice recovery on the fall trips not paying off!