Crappie.com - A Few Fishing Reports

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year!

I had last week off from work and in between spending time with family and friends and eating WAY too much delicious food, I found my way to the water a few times!

I kicked off the week last Monday, 12/23/13. I was debating on saving some leave and heading to work with the weather forecast looking pretty dreary, but I couldn't help myself. I broke out the rain gear and off to the lake I went with the boat in tow. The rain was pretty consistent until the early afternoon and fishing seemed to follow suit. It never got fast and furious, but I was able to beat out a limit of nice fish by mid afternoon. The best method proved to be single pole jigging around structure and a 1/32 black/chart. jig tipped with a minnow was the best bait. Fish were caught 10-14 foot deep in 12-20 FOW. Late Monday evening I witnessed I nice sunset after the rain front had passed!

My dad joined me Tuesday morning and, as we expected, the bite was off. The temperature had plummeted 20+ degrees, the mud had made its way into the lake, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We fished our tails off and called off the hunt shortly before high noon. We wound up with 5 nice fish that we gave to a couple fellas fishing off the bank at the landing. They were glad to get them and I was glad not to have to clean them with my cooler full from Monday.

Thursday morning me and my dad joined a good friend for some perch jerking on Lake Monticello. We bumped spoons on humps and caught a lot of fish. We didn't keep count, but I know our total catch had to be in the neighborhood of 150+. We brought home 37 perch, a bass, and a catfish for the frying pan! Wednesday night I was looking through some old tackle at my Mom's store trying to find a few extra spoons when I stumbled on the motherload of old Rooty Tooty 309s!!!! What a great Christmas Present! They found a new home in my tackle box