Crappie Fishing

[Riverwhy]

I have crappie fished the last two weekends at Mark Twain. The bite is very good in the upper end of the lake. Minnows or chartruese jigs are very effective fished about 12 feet down in 20 to 30 feet of water. Surprisingly, there is a pretty good bite in the shallow water in 4 to 6 feet near standing tinmber off mud flats. You will have to sort through a ton of small fish but a limit of 11 to 12 inch fish is fairly easy if you stay at it most of the day.

The shad balls at Mark Twain are thick this summer. It seemed to me that the more shad we saw the better the fishing.