Thread: Kerr-Eastland-34-2@15"

I was on the lake at 7:00.



By the end of the day I caught these two.





One was 1lb 13.5oz, the other was 1lb 14.5oz. One was a hair over 15" the other a good 1/4" over 15".

I had started out long lining jigs tipped with a minnow and started off by missing 3 of my first 4 including a decent one that broke water 10' from my boat. I was getting mostly small crappie with a few at 11", then one at 12.5". Not happy with the results I switched to spider rigging and vertical jigging a brush pile that was in 24' of water. I caught my first 15" crappie there with a minnow fished 14' deep.



I picked up a few more on this brush pile as I chatted with two guys fishing in the Bobcat tournament. I think they were hoping I would leave the brush pile, (which I didn't for a while) and probably were not too happy to see my pull a 15"er from it. :D Heck, I figured I was helping Fishdoc out by keeping them away from it.

I worked the shallows some and only caught one male in 7" of water. I saw two other guys anchored up deep in the shallow brush and never saw them catch anything. They left after a short while.

I pulled cranks for a bit and only caught 2 small white perch but when I pulled them a few hours later I got 6 crappie including my other 15"er. Here's some smaller crank bait crappie.







The crank in the last pic is a kewl orange that I've been forcing on the crappie. Today I finally got a taker.

I really like Eastland, it's just too bad it's 145 miles away.

Surface water temp was 64 early and late in the afternoon I saw it as high as 75. I caught some crappie with cajun cricket but pearl/chartreuse did just as well. The water is clearing up, I could see down around 2'. Crank baits with pearl in them did best.

I'm taking my wife to Western Branch tomorrow afternoon. Hopefully we'll catch a few.

Tap...Those two large crappie don't appear to have spawned yet,
is that correct? Congrats on your catch, very nice fish.