Stockton Crappie

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My report -

Fished the Sons Creek area of Stockton yesterday. Put in at 0930, took out at 1930. We had to work at it, but that's OK.

Water temp. 60.4°F, some color but closer to banks you can see the bottom. Cloudy day, light breeze. We concentrated on pea gravel or pea gravel with small chunk rock banks having buck brush in the water. Indentations or pockets in the banks were more productive. Larger trees or concentrations of buck brush in the water close to the bank were a plus.

I was using a fluorescent pink Roadrunner head with a smoke color 2" single tail grub on it rigged tail up, my partner was using a gray Roadrunner and switching off to a chartruse Roadrunner off and on. All caught fish equally well.

We caught 19 BIG crappie and about 125 8" bass. The crappie were here and there, most we caught in one spot was 6. Mostly one-two and move. Didn't have to measure any fish and all were well in the keeper range. Largest was 3 lbs. Probably would have caught several more crappie but we couldn't keep the little bass off the Roadrunners. If they all survive Stockton will have some killer bass fishing in about 3 years.

I wouldn't look for this fishing to last much longer, get after it while you can. There were enough boats there my partner said "I wonder if anyone works anymore?" We're both retired.

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