Great post!
Started out yesterday morning at Gentry Creek fishing the culverts. Caught a few dinks but nothing worth keeping. Gave up just as the storms arrived. Got home, at lunch and took a nap. Woke up and Wife said it was clearing and wanted to go fishing.
Buddy called shortly after and wanted to go also. I said how about some night fishing on Graves creek and everyone was for that.
Got to Graves about 5 O'Clock. Water at the ramp was muddy from the rain, but it hadn't made it all the way down the creek. We tied up near the mouth of the creek and immediately started catching some small males.
The water temp was 63 to 67. We were fishing inside bends wherever we could find brush in 10 to 15 of water. A lot of people were fishing the buck brush that extends out over the deeper water, but weren't catching anything. When I'd go over the same spots, I could see no brush below them. It seemed like the key was that there had to be brush on the bottom.
We were catching the fish from 2 to 6 feet over 10 to 15 fow.
The best bite came the last hour of the day and the first 30 minutes of dark (when you had to have a light to see) In that short amount of time we landed several big females.
The bite shut off about 30 minutes after dark. We stayed a little longer and didn't catch anything for a while so we called it quits. It also seemed like the current had picked up and the muddy water from the upper creek was finally making it's way down. This may have been the cause for them to stop biting.
We ended the night with 10 good sized Crappie up to 1.7 pounds.
We were back at 8 a.m. this morning. The entire creek was really muddy. We found some more submerged brush near where we fished the previous night.
Tried nearly every color jig but they preferred minnows, and Rosie's at that.
Fish were really slow and we tried several areas. None were solid producers and had to leave at 3 p.m. We took home 7 average sized fish with an exceptional one weighing 1.11 pounds. At about the same time this ole girl hit me, my buddy had one bite him that went 1.3 pounds.
Water temp was 60 when we started in the a.m. and had jumped to 71 near the mouth when we left. It was 63 back at the ramp. Can't understand why we weren't killing them on the banks...or anywhere else for that matter. Didn't see anyone else catching many either and a lot of people were leaving when we did.
Wife sit in the back of the boat and caught a few and snapped this photo on her phone.
Seems there has to be a wise acre in every bunch!
Last edited by OkieDon; 04-03-2010 at 10:34 PM. Reason: water temp
Great post!
Fished Crowder and Rock Creek Saturday. Result was 90 fish for the day.
Water temps were form 58-65. Nothing caught shallow. All fish pulled in were in 5-12' most close to brush or on ledges. Largest fish was 1.75 lb. - 14 3/4". Lot of 12 inch fish caught.
Fishing method was pushing jigs. Was fun maneuvering around all the boats. Then the afternoon wind made fishing fun.
Seems like everyone was out. Every ramp was packed.
Fished this am. zilch. Fished moved out, from where I had them cornered last week. Fishing deeper water away from the beds and nothing. Measure water temp. this am at 62˚F. dropped several degrees from Fridays measurement. People especially the kids having fun catching small ones around culverts. Thought today’s temperature was going to be in the 80’s – not so.
SD...you must really know where the fish are! I fished the Rock Creek/Crowded area yesterday (sat.)....and we only kept 12....I've never seen so many boats...places I have fished for years...I was never
able to get close to....and I only saw a handful of crappie being boated.
congrats on your phenomenal catch!
dewanzo
She said I was Minnowy Abusive, just before she left!
SD, quite a large catch! What size jigs?
Peke
3" beavertails and slab slayers various colors
Think Thumper did better than me Saturday down at Gaines Creek. Hopefully he'll pop in and drop a report. He was spider rigging also No way i could have spider rigged at Crowder/Rock Creek with the crowds on the water Saturday.
what a weekend,.caught in excess of 200.pic of 2 guest from fort cobb.they were pleased with the trip.the 2 ice chest I sent them home with contained 150.which was all they wanted.they will be cleaning for hours.it was tough fishing with the current.all fish were caught in 5 fow.4 feet deep.on minnows and jigs.warmest I found was 62 deg. Im beat later.and good fishing to all.
Last edited by Thumper; 04-04-2010 at 11:35 PM.
We fished Saturday morning and early afternoon down by Gaines creek. Caught and cleaned 36 fish. We had 6-7 fish that were pushing 2 pounds.
We were catching fish from 5-10 feet deep around brush, and some just out in the open in a cove we were fishing in. Also fished some around the gaines creek bridge, but we didnt catch as many there.
There were some guys wading in the cove we were fishing in, and were having good luck in the buckbrush.
We fished yesterday evening from 3:30-Dark and had 40. Our biggest fish was 6 over 14 inches and 2 over 15 inches. We were spider-rigging jigs in 4-6 fow, fishing 3-4ft feet deep. We lost as many as we caught and a few more over 13 inches. There were people wading the buck brush and flippin corks and jigs and evryone was catching fish. The water temps were 64.8 degrees, perfect spawning temps. EB