Crappie5

I know Kings river is trashed for sure.

looks like the crappie will be messed up again for awhile.

Thanks Champ. My son is heading down today so i will have a report from him. If its good then I'm going down tomorrow.

has anyone been up in the Kings river this week? i was there a week and a half ago and the water was real muddy. just wondering what the water color is now.

I agree contact Richard Bowling or Jeff Faulkenberry guide services. They are 2 of the best guides you will ever fish with on Truman Lake. crappie or blue cats are both of their specialties.

laydowns and standing timber in about 25' of water seemed to be the most productive. The whites was about halfway between the mouth and 86 bridge.

we caught a few in 6-8' deep. Most were out deeper

We was down Good Friday and had 10 nice crappie and 13 whites, we went back down Easter Sunday and had our limits of 30 crappie. Pretty tough both days as they were just spotty and we never really found a good pattern. Most of them caught on pearl swimming minnows and live minnows. water color was good yesterday and the surface temps was 49 at 7:00am and we left at 4:00pm and the surface temp was 58. Getting close..................

I made this cleaning station out of a piece of plastic.

Water temp at 6:45am was 48.7 and at 2:00pm it was 52 and it was about 52.7 whem we left.

We was down in the Kings River Sunrise til 4:30 and managed to find 27 crappie, most of them 13"-14" range. 23 of the 27 were males. Some were caught on live minnows but most were on purple swimming minnows and even a couple on a white road runner. we never found a pattern all day. Some were caught right on the bank, and the rest in all kinds of depths of water and different depths down. I'd say the majority came out of 23' of water-8' down.

Are the crappie not on the banks yet? With water temps ive been hearing, i figured the crappie would be already on the banks.

Bill, 2 days prior we were catching them in 23-30' of water about 7-8' down and we started out there yesterday with only a handfull so we went to the banks and there they were. I also agree with them dropping the water may hurt the spawn on some of these fish.

3 of us went down today and had our limits totaling 45 nice crappie in 6 hours. These fish were all on the banks and were really black so they were ready to do their thing. We fished the Cape Fair area for these. Probably 35 of these came out of 2'-3' of water right on the banks. We were using red/white tube jigs on a 1/8 oz jig head and then tipped with a small live minnow.

There are a lot of people that confuse the Serviceberrys with Dogwoods. The Serviceberrys always bloom first and often several weeks before the dogwoods.