Sticks Before The Snow

[Jason Essary]

Toke a trip out of Mill Creek today. Just a last minute deal. Cold and windy but fish decided to bite around 2. caught 9 lm. Biggest was around 4.5. couple 3's. All came on a stick. most were real shallow. Toke two small keepers home for the grease (let all the bigs go). I was very suprised to find that they were full of tiny 1" crawdads. One had at least a dozen already in its stomach. All in all, good day for the temp.

[motoman]

Hhhhmmm............I'm with you Jessary, small craws this time a year. I wouldn't have thunk it.

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Cool to hear you got out; looks like you guys are gonna get dumped on down there.

[Flippin]

Jessary,

That sounds like a good trip in the cold. I am little surprised on the crawdads but I guess the never stop feeding on the delicacies.

How long did you let the bait set before twitching it and how shallow were you?

[LouDog]

Jessary, what color were the crawdads? I've seen that size around Buttermilk this time of year and they are usually, but not always, black with red highlights...

[Jason Essary]

We were letting the bait set for up to 20 seconds, when the wind and boat would allow. some were in 4 foot, some 10. The craws were just the standard greenish brown for the area, course coming out of the gullet of the fish might have changed them some, idk.

[Flippin]

Wow! You where is shallow water