Loz Crappie

[96 CHAMP]

here are some crappie i caught this weekend up on the gravois and in indian creek, the crappie i caught this morning in the rain in indian creek there eggs had blood in them and were very mushy in 6-8 feet of water, the bite was on in the rain this morning

[stuartsx5]

Nice catch. I need to make a bragging board like that. I take people fishing all the time and always try to get a picture of their catch for them. Something like that would be much easier.

[Jig]

Nice group of fish

[Kylekcmo]

Very nice, I am headed to the Ozarks as soon as I get out of work today. Hopefully the bed under the dock will be full of big ones!

[Old plug]

Lot of luck kyle. I do not think mama is in the mood for papa right yet though.

[buckcreekmike]

I went with my dad and caught about 20-25 and kept about 10 nice ones. Didn't catch any that we're not at least borderline keepers. I am in buck creek and they were caught primarily in one spot in about 25' o water in the deep end of a boat slip about 10-15' down. Had to let it go deeper or would not have much success. I see a lot up shallow around our dock too. Water temp was 57* or so.

[Old plug]

that isthe way to do it right now. i will enjoy those same deep fish in the last hour or so of daylight when the big mamas that are sitting out there in a pre spawn mode rise to feed. provided the darn boat traffic calms down more.

[nomolites]

Wife and I cleaned 26 this afternoon that went 11-14" with just 2 males in the bunch. Caught quite a few smaller with a couple small whites and about a 30# gar trolling cranks 12-15 ft deep. About a third of the females looked close to spawning, a third not even close and none spawned out. We were fishing basins off pea gravel spawning pockets.

[Blazerman]

The wife and I were also down this past weekend staying at a condo by the Grand Glaize bridge. Fishing off the condo docks, I caught about 75 fish from Friday evening to Sunday morning. I only fished each morning till about 9:00 and then fished Friday and Saturday night after dark. I too cleaned the 25 biggest crappie that were all between 11”-14”.

75% of the fish I caught were caught on a white Zig Jig with the silver tinsel body. Using the Zig Jig I also caught 5 bass, the biggest was 15”(and I caught it twice), 1 catfish that went about 5lbs, 4 drum, (1 that took me 5 minutes to land), a few bluegill and a couple white bass that were small. The other crappie I caught on a chartreuse and white bobby garland jig.

Almost all the crappie were caught vertical jigging. The fish were at various depths from 5 fow to about 20 fow. Most all the other fish were caught when I cast the zig jig down the bank and worked it slowly back about 5’ out.

[WHARFRAT]

It was tough for us. Had a little get-together for my son who is gettin hitched at the end of the month. So the group of us that hunt together went down to the lake over the weekend. We probably cleaned 60 or so between the two boats. But most came Saturday after 5 till dark and yesterday morning before 11.

Never could get a sustained pattern. Some were 3-5 ft down about 15yds off the bank, then 10-12 ft down scattered between docks.. I tried shooting some productive docks, but to no avail.

Most that we kept were 10-12 inches, but the 12" was few and far between. One of the guys caught a 14"+ fish.

The females still look a good week to 10 days out.

Been a weird spawn time here on the Big Niangua.