Snagging And Crappie Fishing Below Bagnell

[Seth]

Put the boat in below Bagnell right at daylight. Dad and I went below Hwy 54 bridge and snagged for several hours and never hit anything. Seen on guy on the bank right below the bridge catch one little paddlefish. I never marked a good concentration of fish anywhere that I went. There are several paddlefish cleaned by the ramp, but this has been the worse year ever for us snagging up there. We have have limited out every trip up there for several years until this year and we've been skunked both times.

We got tired of that and went and got some minnows and tried crappie fishing the south bank below the dam. We caught three crappie over there. . Right as we pulled up we seen a guy pull in three crappie one after another from a brush pile in the same area. He must of been sitting on it just right.

On the way back to the ramp, we went to the north side and rode the current down to the boat ramp. Dad flipped his minnow out and hooked something big as soon as it got to the bottom. He fought it for about 15 minutes on 4 lbs test before finally landing a 5lbs hybrid bass. That's the first hybrid we've ever caught up there.