Long Bend, James River Arm Crappie Report.

[duckydoty]

Put in at Long Bend (right across the lake from Cape Fair Marina) with a buddy today looking for crappie. Headed down to point 14 to check a few spots on bluff banks with pole timber. Only caught a few spots in those areas. Did not spend too much time in any one place. Made a few casts and if no crappie, we would move. Went a few coves into Wooley Creek and checked some pole timber with no results. Crossed the lake and worked that bluff all the way to the end with no crappie. Decided to head back above Long Bend a try a few spots up there. Hit an MDC brush pile in a cove and picked up one keeper and 5 or 6 shorts. Tried a transition bank with a little timber on it and picked up a couple more shorts. Hit a deep brush pile next to a dock and picked up a nice spot and a few more shorts. Moved across the lake and found a log pile that we pulled 9 keepers off of in 12 feet of water. One of them was huge! That spot slowed down so we went to Virgin Bluff and worked some lay downs only picking up a few shorts. My buddy had to leave around 4 so I dropped him off at the ramp and went back to the log pile that produced so well earlier. Picked up one more keeper and one more short off of it. Further back in that cove was another MDC brush pile that I picked up 2 more keepers off of and a few shorts. Decided to head up to Flat Creek for a look and when I got there, I was disappointed. The water only had about 1 foot of visibility and only caught 2 shorts in a lay down up there. Hit a few more MDC brush piles on my way back down to Long Bend and only caught shorts the rest of the evening. Caught all fish on 1/16th ounce jigs with lighter colors such as monkey milk, crystal lam, blue grass, and pearl. Some of the brush piles were holding fish at 6 feet deep, others would be up to 12 feet deep. I ended up keeping 9 and my buddy had 6 when he left at 4. Nice warm day out there and the crappie fishing was better than yesterday. Nice to see them getting into some structure.

[Alex Heitman]

Nice job duck. You are quite the crappie man. Great reports and great fish.

[Sac River Jim]

thnx duckie for another good report.

[mic]

Nice haul

[Quillback]

Nice slabs!

[capndan]

THanks bro things getting ready to happen!