Late Cape Fair Report

[Bittle]

Last Saturday my dad and I decided to try our luck with some crappie spots. We had hit some good schools about this time last year and wanted to check some out. We put in at Cape Fair Boat Dock and headed down river and started throwing swimming minnows and dragging minnows. The first brush pile we stopped at we hit a school of nice keepers. We threw in 2.5 inch swimming minnows and would catch the active fish. When the bite would slow down we would throw minnows under bobbers and catch some of the slower feeding fish. We ended up keeping 16 or 17 out of that one brush pile. We stayed after that one brush pile for about two hours or a fuzz over. The fish would come in waves at times. We started fishing some other good locations picking up a few more fish before we lost light and decided we were getting hungry. Ended the day with 20 keepers and only threw back one short crappie all day. We caught several bass also, mostly spots in our daily adventure, nothing big but some fun fat ones.

On a good note I am starting to see more keeper crappie with the black nose on them this year. Last year three of us in a boat caught about 30 out of one brush pile and they were all just a tad under 10 inches. I had three keeper black nose crappie this trip and they were 11 inches or better.

We didn't get on the water until about 2 or so and fished up until dark. It was pretty windy and I think that helped the bite that day.

Glad I got to spend time with my dad and keep some fish for my grandma. I can't stock her freezer faster than she can eat it.

Good luck out there.

[Patrick M]

How deep is the water you are fishing in? I have a 14 ft Richline boat with a trolling motor and 5 hp motor on it. Do you think i could fish the areas you were?

[techo]

Like Bill mentioned....your boat will be fine up there. The water is narrower there and the wind doesn't usually get to bad. If you put in at Bridgeport, you should be able to pull some Ks off the bridge piers and off the rock bank. You can decide where you want to go from there based on what you are fishing for.