Hope Everyone Had A Pleasant Spring!

[Andy & JoAnne]

Snowed yesterday at our house. Had 1 day over 55 degrees since December. Ughhhhh

[Bill B.]

Spring is pretty much over, anyway. Up here in central MO, the crappie have pretty much spawned out and are moving into their summer patterns. At Truman, we're catching our best crappie trolling A-rigs 35 feet deep over treetops in 100+ feet of water.

[hoglaw]

SPRING? The last time I looked at the calender it was still winter.

You must be spending too much time inside looking at the calendar then. I could care less when the calendar says it's spring. When the redbuds are in full bloom and the dogwoods blooming, when the turkeys are gobbling on the roost, when the crappie are on the banks, when the whites are up the river, when the fairways turn green, and when Beaver is over 60 degrees, it's spring. I can check every single one of those off the list.

I bet we're going to have a very late very warm bass spawn this year though. Last year the river fish were on beds as late as May and June as I recall. I bet they'll ride this one out and wait for the water to come down before they go to bedding this year again.

[Mitch f]

Spring is pretty much over, anyway. Up here in central MO, the crappie have pretty much spawned out and are moving into their summer patterns. At Truman, we're catching our best crappie trolling A-rigs 35 feet deep over treetops in 100+ feet of water.

A Rigs for crappie? Whooda thunk it ?

[Feathers and Fins]

Check this one off the list also.. Honkers paired and some already with gosslings.

[Bill B.]

A Rigs for crappie? Whooda thunk it ?

Just kidding. But I bet they'd work as well for crappie as they do for anything else.

Here's another one that I'm just kidding about, but I like the image:

Did you hear about the guy who won a bass tournament on Table Rock with just one cast? He graphed a school of big fish holding off a point. When he chucked an A-rig to them, he got a solid thump on the first cast. Instead of cranking the fish straight in, he let it fight for a couple of minutes. Every few seconds, the weight at the end of the line got heavier as other fish grabbed the remaining free sassy shads. By the time he finally landed his fish, he had five of them hooked, none under three pounds.

[Feathers and Fins]

Just kidding. But I bet they'd work as well for crappie as they do for anything else.

Here's another one that I'm just kidding about, but I like the image:

Did you hear about the guy who won a bass tournament on Table Rock with just one cast? He graphed a school of big fish holding off a point. When he chucked an A-rig to them, he got a solid thump on the first cast. Instead of cranking the fish straight in, he let it fight for a couple of minutes. Every few seconds, the weight at the end of the line got heavier as other fish grabbed the remaining free sassy shads. By the time he finally landed his fish, he had five of them hooked, none under three pounds.

And when he told this story at the weigh in he lost the tournament and was fined my MDOC for to many hooks on a rig. :)

[Bill B.]

D*mn! Foiled again.