Sons And Turnback Creeks Saturday April12Th

[Sac River Jim]

We fished out of ruark saturday morning from 7:00am till 2:00pm, overall it was a pretty good day with mixed results. Mike Dill and I started out on Son's Creek and fished the pockets and stump above 39 bridge throwing blk and chart grubs and chart swimming minnows. we only had 3 or 4 keepers so we moved back under the bridge and worked down the bluff focusing on the small pockets and keying on shaded areas. as we moved down the creek the water cleared a bit so i started throwing a bobby garland hyper-grub in smoke and we managed to pick up 10 nice males from little over 10 to 11 inches. the fish were in 2 to 4' of water close to the bank laying in the shade. at 10:30 we decided to make a run up turnback looking for some bigger females. we found some bigger males under and just below the 160 highway bridge throwing to a pier and letting the grub drift down then bringing it right over the top of the fish. smoke and blue ice were the colors there too. we culled all our small males and ended up with weighing in our best 10 for 9.19lbs. most between 11 and 12.5 inches. heres our results for the day.
Tri-Lakes Crappie Club tournament results for April 12 at Ruark Bluff on Stockton Lake,Missouri
1st place Joe and Mike 10 fish 9.39lbs
2nd place Jim and Mike D. (guest) 10 fish 9.13lbs.
3rd place Davey (solo) 5 fish4.93lbs
4th place Bill and Lee 4 fish 1.67lbs.
5th place Ricky and David R. 2 fish 1.17lbs
6th place David E. and Randy 1 fish .76lbs
7th place Melvin and Scott 1 fish .45lbs
8th place Dallas and Frank Did not weigh in
most the fish were caught way up the creeks guys on the lake didn't do to well. sons creeks 59.1 deg at 39 bridge. turnback 64.1 degs at 160 bridge and davey who fished solo found 66.2 degree water somewhere on the big sac way above CC. he had the best 5 and did find some nice sows. mike and i had only 3 small females out of 28 fish. sorry no pics. im the length master and didnt have anytime to take any pics and nobody else did that i talked to but if i find some i will be sure to post them.

[duckydoty]

Great report Jim. Thanks for sharing. I want to try and get up there this week. It is hard not to fish the James right now though.

[Sac River Jim]

its still early for sons creek ducky its just now getting started. yea im wanting to get back down to cape this week too.

[hooked on crappie]

Does anyone know of any more crappie tournaments at Stockton? Thanks

[Sac River Jim]

hooked ours is just a little club outing but if i hear of any tourneys I;ll let you know. the senior center at stockton has had one in the past but i havent heard if there having it this year or not.

[Sac River Jim]

sorry it took so long but heres the mess of crappie mike and i caught last saturday. almost all males between 11.5 to 12.5'' they averaged just shy of a pound a piece