Fishing Report 7/17

[packersooner]

Fished for crappie from sunrise til just after 2 PM. After reading all of the recent reports, decided to focus on brush piles. In a nutshell, we didn't do squat. Fished from Googer north to the mile long bridge. Even tried briefly up towards Crabtree. We must of fished at least 15 different brush piles...some marked and some not. Fished in them, around them, on top of them...you name it. Caught one keeper and a few shorts. Also caught a handful of whites, one LM and my buddy caught a nice cat. Fished plastic jigs, hair jigs, and Road Runners.

The water seemed very clear with water temps ranging from 86 to 90. The boat traffic was just terrible. The heat wasn't much better. Noticed a lot of fingerling bass swimming around. Just not sure what went wrong. My step father comes into town tomorrow and was looking to take him out on Monday. Thought we could get into a good Stockton crappie bite, but my confidence is a little shaken.

Anyone else have any luck Saturday?

Jason

[clf989s]

Did you try minnows??

[packersooner]

Did you try minnows??

Did not try minnows. Even brought the minnow bucket, but figured jigs would suffice with some of the recent reports. May have been our biggest mistake.

Jason

[CrappyKing]

Did not try minnows. Even brought the minnow bucket, but figured jigs would suffice with some of the recent reports. May have been our biggest mistake.

Jason

No mistake there. I had 4-5 dozen minnows and caught maybe 2 crappie in 6 hrs of fishing on them. Could have been because today was a very light bite from what I noticed, so could have been they didnt like the resistance of the rod on the minnow. Who knows... Landed probably 40 fish, only 7 keeps though. Mostly 15' piles. Try piles closer to deep channels too. I've noticed some of MDC's are in less than stellar locations for crappie. Good luck and bring lots of water, like you said it was scorching out today with ZERO wind to cool you down.

[jighead]

Fished same brush as last weekend plus numerous others with minnows and jigs. Caught one keeper crappie. 2 catfish. 6 decent perch. Left at noon because of heat. Guess the bite was just off . Wonder how the night bite was?

[hothead]

Fished same brush as last weekend plus numerous others with minnows and jigs. Caught one keeper crappie. 2 catfish. 6 decent perch. Left at noon because of heat. Guess the bite was just off . Wonder how the night bite was?

Fished last Saturday night on the little sac side on some main lake points and it was horrible. 2 weeks before that fished same spots and had pretty good luck even mixed in an eye.

[Skeeter ZX190]

I think either the weather or the moon has something to do with the very slow bite. I fished Truman on Friday, and a friend of mine fished Truman on Saturday. Very, very, very slow. I was fishing minnows around numerous trees. Only caught 2 keepers and a few shorts.

[Trav]

Lets see....There hasn't been a "Trav's Fishing Report" since the 93 degree heat wave started. I would like to think I know a little about fish. Maybe I am just too much of a wimp to sweat my butt off for a slow bite. Your call.

I have noticed the Stockton tourneys on Thursdays have quit giving results to the winners. I hope is isnt because dumb guys think they can keep fish alive in this heat.....

[Skeeter ZX190]

Trav: If you don't go, you don't catch. Sure it's slow, but sure beats sitting at home thinking about it.

[Thunderin Gobbler]

You got that right Skeeter. I'm going tonight, and it don't matter what we catch. At least I'm going!