Fishing Report-crappie And Bass

[Stockton Lake Guide Service]

level-869.86 Temp 59 up the creeks and 53 at the dam.

The lake continues to rise, at least by the looks of the boat ramps. The water temp has been pretty steady at around 59 up sac, turnback and up sons creek. The rain has made both of these arms pretty murky, but that should clear up pretty fast. The big sac and turnback is not as muddy as sons creek.

Crappie-The crappie fishing has been good. They were in about 2 foot of water up sons creek before this rain hit. That pushed most of the fish back (or they at least stayed on the "old" shoreline. Since the lake continues to rise, make sure you find that depth and fish it hard. Last night I caught 13 nice crappie in a couple of hours on one brush pile in 5-7 foot of water. I was using a 1/16 oz jig with several different colors of triple ripple (red and white, blue/black and chartruese, and bubble gum and chartruese) I have tried above the dirty water and had only limited success, so i would guess your best bet is to try to stay out of the muddy water.

Bass fishing has also been really good. Most the fish that I have caught or have heard of being caught were either on jigs or spinnerbaits in the sons creek arm around 5-7 foot deep. We have the bass tournament tomorrow evening at 6 pm out of ruark bluff. Weigh in will be at 9 pm. Come on out and fish. It is open to all.

Hope this helps some and keep your hook sharp!