Long Creek Crappie

[Phil Lilley]

Put in at Gages about 6 pm. Hit some of my spots heading up in the creek. Nothing on the banks. Did find a few on stickups out from the bank 15-20. Lost a big one and landed one. Several smaller ones and a couple of shorts. All on swimming minnows- smoke.

I didn't clean these but they appeared to be spawned out. I find that hard to believe but .... I'll be looking again in the days to come.

16.5 inches... what a slab!!

[markg]

We fished last wee k from 04/20 - 04/24 and pretty much struck out. We went out of Cricket Creek Marina. Most of the fish were caught on the flats of Long Creek East of Yoakam Creek in the first couple of days and in the buck brush of Long Creek by Thursady. There were several guys with limits coming in to clean. They all claimed there was no set pattern right now. Some were caught at 28foot in 30 foot of water, some at 11 foot in 12 foot of water, and others in 4 foot of water. Thursday was the most productive day. The fish were slow to bite and were laying in the buck brush. Red& chartruese tube jig was most productive. Wish I could have caught a few more but my buddies did all the catching.