Mark Twain Crappie Report

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Met my Iowa fishing pal for our semi-annual Mark Twain Lake crappie session over Memorial Day Weekend. The crappie bite was hot in the morning and evening on two-inch tubes. We tried 1.5-inch crappie spiders and small grubs, both of which had the occasional taker, but nothing produced near as well as the slow, tantalizing fall of a two-inch tube paired with a 1/16-ounce jig. Most all of our fishing took place in area 22 of Indian Creek. (Map of Mark Twain: Bass Pro Shop Online Lake Maps )

While we boated approximately 150 fish per day, I should warn that only 1 in about 15 to 20 fish was what I would consider "keeper" length by Ozark reservoir standards. Mark Twain has a 15 fish per day limit, but it does not have a length limit. We actually saw people cleaning crappie in the launch area that could not have been more than 6 inches long!