Lower Lake Crappie (Kim City to Dam).

[Phil Lilley]

May be between all of us we can locate our crappie and eat filets all summer! Wouldn't that be nice.

[Martin]

Most of my Tablerock walleyes, (which are few and far between), were caught while trolling for whites. June, July, and August if you can stand the heat. We generally go over to Bull Shoals to catch walleyes. BS has a pretty good walleye population but even with that said, walleyes can be a frustrating deal. I may be wrong but it "seems like", the farther you go west on the lake (Tablerock), the better chance you have of catching a walleye. One of my buddies fishes up around Eagle Rock and he catches more walleyes then most people.

Phil, that would be great if we could keep on those crappie. They gotta be somewhere....

Don, thank you. Those darn crappie must have gone on vacation. I blanked yesterday morning and I went out on my lunch hour (hour and a half) and blanked again...Maybe when the weather straightens out I'll get another shot at them.

[Hunter91]

I too do a little trolling for walleyes and whites during hot summer time on the Rock. I have found it very strange that almost every trip we pick up a few crappie probably 13+ inches on crankbaits usually running about 20 ft deep in 60+ feet of open water. I guess they are suspended out there. Just my thought.

[Martin]

Good point Hunter91.... I too, catch an occaisional crappie way out in the middle of nowhere when trolling.....

By the way: They're baaaccckkkkkkk....... I went out this evening between rain showers and got three really nice crappie in about 40 minutes....Not red hot but the size makes up for the slow periods.

I missed at least two. These babies are big....!!

(Same method as described above)....

[Sam]

that picture of yours looks like you are holding a giant black crappie.

I thought that was a black crappie too, and almost posted something about it - then I enlarged the picture and looked closer. It's a BIG white crappie.

The spots on the side form faint lines. Also, it has the long tapered "forehead" of a white crappie, not the blunt nose of a black crappie. The two kinds really are shaped different if you compare them.

Here's a photo I posted back in January of two 12" Long Creek crappies. The white crappie is at the top and the black crappie at the bottom.

[Martin]

Sam, that an excellent photo / comparison. And thanks for the short fishing trip Thursday !!