Finally a Good Trip!

[CallWhy816]

Not to often that we get a good crappie trip in the Spring. Usually bad weather, or lock jaw but this was our first trip to MS. The first day we went up to Sardis and did very well. Didn't do as well on Grenada on Friday, but still caught a few big crappie.

It felt strange throwing back nice and plump 12" crappies. The size difference in crappie is something else and really enjoyed the trip down south. Also got my first spider rigging experience and that is actually a lot of fun. Takes a bit to get used to throwing around those 14' poles.

[jstfshn]

I gotta learn this spider rigging thing.

[Jigging15]

Sure looks like fun. Glad you had a great trip.

[CallWhy816]

I had heard about spider rigging, but I figured it maybe more trouble than anything. There was an occasional tangle, but overall it was very fun and not much hassle at all. Heading to Cabela's tomorrow to get the Tite-Lok setup.

[bwillaub]

Nice fish. Thanks for the report. WTG

[jstfshn]

Were the fish you caught up shallow or still in the channels?

[Speck]

Those Sippi lakes will spoil you!!! Nice fish

[WantinCrappie]

Sounds like a great time. Congrats.

[CallWhy816]

We started on Sardis Thursday and it was so windy and rough at the dam we just shot straight across the lake to a cove that was 4 - 5 feet all through it. We would go to one side with the spider rig and basically just drifted all through the cove. The rigs were only 3 - 4 foot deep and that's where we caught the majority of our fish. We went out with John Woods that first day which was great. Good guy, who fishes a lot crappie tourneys and learned a lot from him.

Friday we went to Grenada and went all the way up to the end back in the cyprus trees and we were catching them in 2 - 3 fow just dipping trees. We didn't have the spider rig on Grenada. From what we heard from everyone we talked to was that is was very slow all day. We would pull out 1 keeper out and then we couldn't get another one to bite until we hit up a new spot. I think between our 2 boats on Friday from Grenada we only had about 13 keepers.

Seems like the weather down there has been messing up the patterns pretty bad and it was rather rough fishing. Both days had 15-20 mph winds, which makes those lakes VERY rough, then by 3 or 4 they would calm down. We got rained out on Saturday and headed back a day early

Speck, it sure will spoil you. I couldn't believe the size of them crappie. You can pull out some big ones around here every great while but it was one after another down there. Will definetely be back, and the hospitality was great.