Site Seeing 3/3

[waterpossum]

With the lake being nearly 7' low I thought today would be a nice day to tour the lake. I probably walked 5 miles of bank at a lot of different locations on the Big Sac arm starting in Mutton Creek and ending the day at Hawker Point. This is the time to locate,structure, visible brush piles, old house foundations, etc. At 3 pm I got my crappie pole out not expecting to catch a thing at a steep sloped cove in Hawker using a slip bobber set at 15'with a blue and white tube jig. Amazingly I immediately starting catching crappie for about an hour. Ended up with 8 keepers and threw back about that many shorts. This was a complete stroke of luck. Talked to one guy over at Stockton State Park that had 3 keeper bass, one about 5lb all on an A-rig.

[zarraspook]

Nice way to spend the day !!! Any chance you got water temp ??

[frying eyes]

Water temp was 39 around ruark bluff today. Fished about 4hrs today, no luck.

[waterpossum]

I see this morn lake level at 860.90 which is about a 1.5' rise in the past week. Hopefully we get enough rains to raise the lake this year. I'm afraid this could be a bad spawn year if lake stays at this level (which it probably will) since the spawn for most species is about a month away. On a side note the tire pile or at least a section of it at State Park is above water. When they sunk those tires you can see they threaded them on a long section of 4" steel pipe.