Dutch

I really never pay much mind to water temps when I am fishing for whites. I have noticed that the kind of fishing I do is much more related to cold fronts with pre spawners. For example, I caught many on Tuesday but couldn't go back on Wednesday. I had to go today to take my best friend who couldn't go any other day this week. To get to the point, after last night's cold front, the two of us didn't catch 20% of the fish I caught by myself on Wednesday and the water was 3° warmer.

Yes. Around 47°. Why do you feel it is important?

If you can't get a site there, I am sure there will be plenty at Eagle Rock and the drive is only a few miles.

Compared to your area it might be considered muddy. But for it, it is fairly clear. I don't pay much attention the water clarity. I just chunk those baits.

It was a little slower today. I only got 45 with no other kinds of fish at all which is not usual.

Is the pickerel thing in Crane Creek a recent event? I used to fish it a lot and never saw or even heard of one.

I don't know where else to look. I talked to a guy who lives around Cape Fair a couple of days ago. He said that it just wasn't happening this year for some reason, maybe cause they caught 2 bazillion last year and year before last in that area.

That is correct about the Pomme de Terre. They are stocked in the lake and migrate into the river.

Don't wait. The fish are on the move in the rivers. The little males will go way up the streams several weeks before the breeding fish arrive. The good females will only go to the first few shoals and spawn there.

I drive 45 minutes to 2 hours for any water I fish.

It looks like Mon for sure for me. If I score I'll post up. I'd go today but I am kind of a sissy.

It would take a book for a total reply so I will only respond to a few things. I like football head jigs on TR because I lose fewer of them than other styles in the rocks. Any of the baits you mentioned will be potential producers. I'd bring more bait casting equipment and less spinning if it were me. BTW: What part of the lake will you be on? Will you bring boats?

Well I guess it looks like no one else will be there.

I'm thinkin next week will be good and I am hittin it hard. Who else will be out there? What kind of boats will you be in in case I see you?

If I might be so bold as to ask, what part of the lake were you fishing cause it is a really big pond?

Phil the thing about these transient fish is they move around a lot. I have seen creeks and rivers full of them and a good front with a stiff wind comes through and the disappear for as much as 10 days. I don't know if they leave of shut down. Some of the holes are 20' deep but mostly it is much shallower than that.

Jigs were the bait of the day for me. I didn't even try anything else cause they would hit the jigs. I'm thinkin bout tomorrow since I am still off work and the winds are not going to be too bad.

I don't have a clue about those bridges Phil. No I wasn't fly fishing. It was way too windy for that kind of stuff today besides the fish were fairly deep.

What ever that bridge by the unloading place is called. I only went a little ways upstream.

I decided the wind might not be too bad so I went back and boy am I glad I did. I caught 62 white bass. Some above the bridge and some below just like yesterday only better.

I actually decided to go to day since it was so nice. My bud and I both had limits of whites with some blacks and keeper walleye. We caught some below the bridge and some above it. Most of the fish were in the grass. I may have to bank fish because of the wind but I think I might go back tomorrow.

I know some guys who are going tomorrow. I'll find out if they do any good.

By now means do I call myself a crappie fisherman but I do fish for them some in the late winter. What I do is go to river bends or the confluence of 2 streams and slowly cover the area with the boat looking for large schools of shad. Everytime I find one I mark it on a gps. When I have covered the area to my satisfaction, I drop the trolling motor and fish from one waypoint to the other casting a jig or swimming minnow. The depth of the water and wind determine the weight of the jig head. As the bait falls I keep tension on the line hoping for a suspended bite. If I get none, I hop the thing off the bottom back to the boat and repeat the process. When I catch a fish, I mark it on the gps, stop the boat and fan cast the area either catching more or deciding it was a fluke. Also, it never hurts to count the bait down so they you can repeat suspended bites if there is a school in the area. But like I said I don't consider myself to be a crappie fisherman. Other than that I vertical jig fish to 70 fow but that is a whole other topic.

Don't let the clear water bother you. They have to eat no matter what the water color. They do live a little deeper but that is not a big problem.

Have you fished Spring Creek below Hurley? It used to have some good trout in it.