Crappie Report

[Phil Lilley]

Tom and I put in about 6:30 last evening and headed to a couple of my spots from last year. By this time in 05 I'd been out over a dozen times and caught lots of crappie but this year is just alittle busier for us.

The first place, a small cut on the left at the first bend, yielded 3-4 crappie - nothing like I expected. The second was up-creek on the right- another cut in the bluff bank - nothing. This was weird- I expected something there but no. Went alittle up the same bank to the transision and caught one or two short fish. I usually don't go on to the pea gravel, shallower bank but we did and that's where they were. We ended the evening with 10 keepers, nothing we had to measure, and one white bass sow with eggs. Two of the crappie were female with eggs. Caught them all off the bank 10-12 feet in 4-6 feet of water.

At least where we were they haven't finished but from the numbers, most have spawned. We caught them all on smoke swimming minnows.