Thread: Hoping for Lake o' Pines report..... a good one..... :)

Dadgumit,

Found 'em myself today....... They're sneaky this year, I tell ya'! Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas eve. Came home with a nice mess of crappie, and ate a nice supper my lovely bride cooked for us, and opened presents with the in-laws and the children.
It was one of the nicest Christmas Eve's I can remember.
I am very thankful. Looking forward to celebrating the birth of Jesus tomorrow!
JBJ
A couple of pics......

Bayoumonster,
I fish on LOP where you're fishing and used to anchor out and fish about a foot or so off the bottom. That is, until everyone around me was catching way more than me. Started drifting and dragging the shiners off the bottom like they were and immediately saw good results. Looking at one of your pics, is that a white crappie you have? Never caught one of those on LOP....only the black crappie (with the specs) in your lower picture. Hopefully this cooler weather and rain we've been having lately will make them bunch up a little. If you see a red/white champion boat.....that'll be me. Hope to see you out there.

Regards,
Roger

Hey Redman,
Thanks for the tip. Do you mean to drag the shiners right on the bottom? I have had one rig where the shiner is only about 3inches off the bottom and have caught fish on it, but also caught some on the top shiner on a double rig about 3.5 to 4 feet off the bottom. I'll be in an OLD white/brown fiberglass hawg trough tomorrow, hopefully. I'm worried I may not feel like going---feeling like I may be catching a cold. I'll holler at you if I see you. I should have my dad in the back and son in the middle. BTW, that is a white perch in the pic. We've caught quite a few whites in the past couple of years and actually usually catch several when we go. I like the whites the best on LOP because they're usually nice ones and so pretty. That one in the first pic was 16" and I believe he was close to 2lbs.----very thick fish. One of the biggest I've caught on the pines and he was only in 18' of water, although we didn't catch much at all that day at that depth. I've caught several about 17" but nothing really big. Still hoping---I know they're there.
THanks for the response and I'll holler at you if I see you. We usually launch at overlook.
THanks again,
JBJ

Have been catching white and black crappie in 24' to 28' of water using shiners from 1' to 4' up from the bottom just North of the dam, haven't seen them bunched up yet. Mostly stay anchored, if it gets slow, then I will drift till I get some bites and anchor down until it gets slow again. Lots of nice slabs with a few small ones, it has been taking me most of the day to get my limit.
Hope this helps,
SD

My son did some bass fish up that way, he put in at the damm Saturday, and fished e different spots for bass no catch any. He talked to few crappie fishermans and all said slow (some fishermans have been know to tell a fib) he did not see mane crappie caught while in the area.