Crappie report, Long Creek Ark

[Phil Lilley]

Duane, Mona Cheri and I put in at Cricket 3 pm yesterday. Headed up past Yocum and found some brush in 12 feet of water. Caught a few but nothing great.

Short story- we found the crappie well off the banks but close to timber 3-4 feet deep. Water was stained, may be 18 inches visibility? Caught our fish on Crappie Magnets. Ended up doing the best just casting in open water and not letting it sink very far.

Hit a few structures going out- main channel, deep timber, transition banks. No pattern really. Ended with 8 keeps. May be 12 shorts.

67 degree water. Disappointed we didn't find more close to banks. Looked like they had eggs- Duane will clean them this morning.

[Middleton369]

Phil that sounds pretty well on par with how we've been doing the past few days in the Long Creek/Yocum area. Fished this morning from 7:30-11 and only had 3 keeps with a few shorts. Some were in brush in 12-14 feet of water and some were in lay downs in 3 feet of water. Like you said, there is no real pattern. And we haven't been able to find a magic spot in the last couple weeks that you can pull them off of right and left like we found 3 weeks ago. WT was 62 today. Using BG shad on 1/16 oz head.