Crappie And Bass Report

[Stockton Lake Guide Service]

Crappie fishing has been really good over the past week. Most of the females have been in 20-25 foot deep water suspended anyplace from 6-18 foot down. Last night we caught both males and females in water less than 10'. The hardest part was finding places to get in close to the bank. Try finding some deeper banks where the trees are not as far out in the lake. color didn't seem to matter, and finally niether did the minnow. The spots we fished last night had zero fish in the deeper water, except for a couple of white bass. We were fishing sons creek and the water temp held 63-64 even after the sun set. I did see another boat crappie fishing and saw them pull in a couple of fish in the deeper water. I'm sure there are still fish deep, but some of them seemed to be moving shallow finally. Try both and keep moving if you don't get bit quick.

Bass have been shallow in the sons creek area biting on spinnerbaits, jigs, and baby brush hogs. In the evenings lots of fish are moving on the points to feed and are hitting top water, mainly zara puppys and chug bugs. We caught several keepers over the past week, but even more smaller fish up to 12". Most of the keepers were 16-18".

Sorry no report on the walleye other than catching a few while throwing spinnerbaits shallow, but lots of people say they are catching some catfish while crappie fishing.

Good Luck!!