Members FullTiltAngler Posted April 30, 2012 Members Share Posted April 30, 2012 Spent the whole weekend at the resort. Arrived and started fishing about 8am and could not buy a crappie bite on anything I threw at them up until 11 then was like a light switch turned on. From 11 to around 1and ended with 9 nice keeps ranging 10-12" all using a 1/16oz chart jig with matching nibble all at 8ft in 15fow throwing out with a very slow retrieve. All went quiet again around 1:30 so took a long break and hit it again about 6:30 in th evening using slip bobbers with minnows set at 10ft in 20fow and by 9 ended with 6 more good keeps with one that went 13.5"(all others were right around 10"). Since I had my limit called it a day. Got up Sunday to go at it again but as we all know mother nature had other plans so after waiting until the worst of the storms had passed started fishing again about 8:30. Was getting some pretty good action as the heavy rains were moving through(even got a few nice channel cats on the minnows during this time and my buddy hooked a nice 4lb lm as well). All the bites from the crappie were on minnows all setting slip bobber at 10ft in about 15-20fow(my buddy was also getting some bites by dropping to bottom then reeling up about 2ft and suspend) but when the front finally moved through and the winds died and sky cleared the light switch went off and not another bite from there so ended up with another 9 all from 9.5"-10.5". Water temps were running pretty much dead on 65 degrees and water was dingy(especially after the downpours through the morning). I did notice a quite a few fish carrying eggs with males very dark and spotty so I have to think they are either quite ready to spawn or already in the process even though we and no one else fishing the area got any fish less then 10ft deep so no shallow fish of any kind. Between the lake level being to low and strange weather patterns occuring looks like a we'll have different kind of season than this time last year.Good fishing to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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