Flat Creek Crappie

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Crappie are biting good on minnows around brush, real pretty color too. All the big blacks didnt have any eggs, have they already spawned or are those big males?

[Micheal Kyle]

Do you know Cale Smith?

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Yeah I was with him yesterday when we talked to you

[Sac River Jim]

i caught some big blacks yesterday between cape fair west ramp and wooley creek ones i had were big males. they were bout the blackest id ever seen

[Phil Lilley]

Beautiful fish!

[Micheal Kyle]

Yep I thought that was you good to see you guys yesterday. Hopefully the fishing bite will come back when the winds die!! Not that's it has been bad just more difficult to keep on the spots:)

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

I'm gonna hit it tomorrow again. Did ya find out submerged stump. It had a lot on it

[Bill Babler]

Those are most diffently not spawned out. Looks like males. Great trip and thanks for the pic.

[Sam]

aarchdale, you can tell male crappie from females when you clean them, even if they've spawned out. Females always have a few yellow eggs left, or if a fish has a pair of bright white internal parts, those are male gear. I was there last week and fished from Bridgeport to Ashercane. All the big black crappie we caught were males, and the only females we had were two smaller, barely-legal white crappie caught near Bridgeport. Further up the river it was all male black crappie. The female white crappie were suspended in deep water and their eggs were nowhere near ready. We're still on the leading edge of the spawn, I think, with probably some getting on nests by now. Since then I had a good trip for white bass at Galena, and tomorrow I'm going again after both crappie and w.b.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

Gotcha. All the blacks were males then. All the whites still had lots of eggs and not near as big as the blacks