Originally Posted by donr
We didn't brave the wind Saturday, and should have stayed home yesterday too. The wind yesterday wasn't too bad (WSW@ about 10mph) and we figured that the 70+ air temps this weekend might warm up some crappie action. We were wrong. We tried boat docks and channel edges from midway to the mouth of rabbit branch without a hit. Next a large cove off the main lake-which is almost always a crappie spawn honeyhole and has been good already this year- produced nothing. Water temps were 53 on the main lake and 54-58 in the cove and Rabbit Branch. We finally put away the crappie gear and ran up Clear Creek where we took a couple of spotted and hybrid bass from 60-62 degree water we found along a bank which was facing the wind. The depthfinder showed a lot of fish suspended at 15-25 feet at the mouths of creeks and bays, but we didn't fish for them. My guess is that the depthfinder fish included crappie that had moved back out to pre-spawn staging behavior. Back at the marina I heard that one boat caught a lot of crappie way up at the top of Clear Creek.
