motoman Posted March 21, 2011 Author Posted March 21, 2011 WOW! Any additional info on what you were doing? Heading out to the lake this Sunday and would love to bring home a mess of crappie. Last year was my first time ever fishing crappie and i did relatively well fishing the docks. I would love to know how to pull them off deep piles with jigs or even pull plugs for them. Thanks! hb - So let's hear how yah did Hector. :-) - I hope to sneak down for a day later in the week,........maybe..........so I'll post what we find..............stay tuned.................
Members Hector Boirie Posted March 21, 2011 Members Posted March 21, 2011 - So let's hear how yah did Hector. :-) - I hope to sneak down for a day later in the week,........maybe..........so I'll post what we find..............stay tuned................. Got my heart broken. Got up at 4 to make the haul out there and had to cancel the trip. My trolling motor wouldn't run. All three batteries didn't take a charge! I could have died. Changed out the fuses and they finally charged up, late last night. I'll have to wait til next Sunday to have any reports
motoman Posted March 22, 2011 Author Posted March 22, 2011 Got my heart broken. Got up at 4 to make the haul out there and had to cancel the trip. My trolling motor wouldn't run. All three batteries didn't take a charge! I could have died. Changed out the fuses and they finally charged up, late last night. I'll have to wait til next Sunday to have any reports - What a heartbreaker Hector, that stinks. Sorry to hear it. We've all been there my man. There's always next weekend?
Boobie Posted March 22, 2011 Posted March 22, 2011 Hey skinny, Heading down this afternoon with my 15 yr old son who is on spring break. What part of the lake are you fishing? We are thinking about putting in at coffman. Trying to get him on some good crappie.Any info would help and i appreciate it greatly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Members skinny waters Posted March 22, 2011 Members Posted March 22, 2011 Sorry guys hadn't looked in a week. Boobie we fished right around coffman, I like Mill Creek but Soap is good too. Fished a bass club tourney over the weekend and so I don't know how the crappie were doing but I would think that similar stuff would work. The jig fish we caught were in 8 to 10' about 3 or 4' down we were casting to piles and just bringing the jigs over them, I had heard they were really shallow that week and we caught a few in really shallow water but the 8 to 10' was our better bite. The jerkbait deal for me is hit or miss, if you get bit you can usually catch several, like I said we were fishing a secondary points, the fish we caught were scattered around brush but not necessarily in it. I was using a megabass 110 and my partner was throwing a lc pointer.
Members Get Bit Posted March 23, 2011 Members Posted March 23, 2011 Hey Guys! Drove down from St. Louis yesterday afternoon and fished from docks today, near the Little Niangua. Fished with my 10 year old son using some of my Wade's Blades jigs in Yellow Chartreuse tipped with minnows on 24" Ice Fishing Rods with spring bobbers. (*Will post video and "How To" in the tips section later). Caught 30 Crappie. Water was pretty stained in color, but find some brush and you'll get bit! Here's a couple pics. Good Luck!
Boobie Posted March 23, 2011 Posted March 23, 2011 Hey skinny,thanks for the info but i missed your reply. We left in a hurry trying to miss the wind. We ended up in soap and caught some nice crappie before the wind threw us across the lake. It wasn't that bad until this morning!We had a great time and we are having fish for dinner tonight. Once again THANKS!!!!!!!!!
motoman Posted March 25, 2011 Author Posted March 25, 2011 Just got back from LOZ last night. We got down to do some crappie fishing wednesday night, but we had some brutal winds and the air temps had slowly dropped all day from the 70's, down to the 30's. OUCH! We were about a half mile from the dam. Surface temps were about 45 degrees. I took temps 10 feet down, and only a degree less difference. (For anyone who cares :-P) - We were gonna go out in the boat Thursday morning, but air temps and wind (not to mention snow flurries) were still pretty rough, so we hung out on the dock. - Started fishing before the sun came up throwing 2" curl tail grubs on 1/16 ounce jighead, moving them slow!!! Anything chartreuse/white. We caught a few. My buddy was using minnows, and started doing better, so I switched up for better results. That way I could just sit in a chair on the dock, hunkered down from the wind behind a 40 foot cruiser. I was never so glad to be sitting so close to those big water plows! - About half of our fish came out of 30 foot of water, in the 15 foot range. The other half were anywhere above the 15 foot range. Some right at the surface, but no consistency. - My buddy would just leave his minnow sit, and set his rod down, then pick it up when it got pecked. I had MUCH better results using a tiny hook, and a tiny split shot a foot up from the bait. Slowwwwwwly reeling up from the 20 foot range. Slow enough to make sure the minnow was not nosing up, just have it coming up through the water column, still swimming horizontal. - The fish seemed to be biting even lighter than crappie usually do. I'm not talking crappie light, I'm talking mosquito light. It could grow very frustrating for someone without much patience. Those dern fish did not want to commit much. I'm not sure if they were just taking a taste, or what!?!?! - In conclusion, it was nice getting out, catching fish, cleaning a limit and hanging out with a good friend. Hopefully in a few days, these cold temps will be a distant memory. :-)
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