looking4crappie

Monday, 7-6-15. Lots of water to fish, but we finally located 1 brush pile with a bunch of crappie on it. 20 fow, catching fish 7-8 ft deep. Little Sac arm. Quit at 1:00 pm, brought home 26 keepers. Lost to many at the boat or we would have limited out. Good Fishin!

Thanks for the info Walcrabass. A buddy of mine texted me last sunday, he was back home (30 miles from lake) at noon with 30 crappie (2 guys) and 1 limit of eyes. I'm calling him tonight to find out specifics. I'm gonna try it this weekend, just didn't know what to expect at the ramp.

What's the ramps been like? Anybody put in at Roark lately? Any ice on ramp?

2 of us had 26 keeper crappie on the rainy saturday of 8-25 and 28 keeper crappie on the hot monday 9-3. Good fish, some 13", not many shorts. 12-15' deep on jigs.

Haven't night fished for years. But, the way we used to do it, when the limit was 30. We would put in at Rock Road about midnight, troll down the lake on the west side, hang a gas latern in a submerged tree that is sticking out of the water. Go back to shore, have a sandwich, a drink and tell fish stories for about an hour. Head back out to the latern, drop your jig head with a minnow on it, start bringing in the crappie. If you run out of minnows, take your bare hook, jerk it through the ball of shad that has gathered under the light to eat the bugs that are flying around the light. Then, once you snag a shad, drop your hook back down, catch a crappie, retrieve and start all over again. Then the three of us, now with 90 keepers in the boat would head back home to start the 2 hour process of cleaning them. Lots of fun!

Monkey Milk color skirt on 1/32 jig head, put in at Roark Bluff.

71 keepers? Isn't that over the limit? Nice fish!!!!!!

I was on the water at 6:00 am and had my limit of Crappie by 8:30 am. Nice fish, 1 at 10 1/2 and the rest 11 1/2 to 12. They all had nice tans too! 10-12' deep over brush. Several short's also. Jig's.

I too am not to high on Academy as a fishing store. 1 day they will be stocked full of what I'm looking for, the next, all gone. No 4 lb. line (except one cheepy brand). No ultra lite rods, last time I looked they had 1.

Like someone said, hunting the fish is the hard part. 2 Buddies and I got on the water 1:30 pm wednesday, fished till 7:00 pm. 35 Keepers, with over half of them 12" and one 15" to boot. All but two of them caught at 12-15 foot deep.

My two grandson's and I hit the water about 7:00 sat. morning. Went up son's to spot I limited out last wed.. Only had 3 keepers. Headed on up son's close to bridge, threw road runners. Ended up with 18 crappie, 3 keeper eyes. Boys were getting restless, loaded up at 2:00. Little tougher day, but still great to be out with the boys.

Your are right on Bob. Fishing was hot on wednesday. 2 of us got on the lake at 1:00 pm. Limited out by 3:30. Nice slabs! Some of the biggest blacks I have ever caught.