5-2-15 Glaize Crappie Report

[Seth]

Fished 6-9pm and ended up with 11 keepers and several throwbacks. There were three of us fishing but I was the only one that caught any keepers. Made me feel bad, but I guess that is a perk of running the trolling motor is that I get to hit the good stuff first. Biggest was 13"and 9 of 11 were sows. Caught a few shooting docks, a few vertically jigging brush piles on the outside of docks in 14-20' of water and a few near brush along bluff walls. A few of my favorite spots where trees hang off the bank in to the water a ways didn't produce anything. Thought for sure there would be some males shallow, but was only able to catch two dinks near the bank.

We also caught a mixed bag of fish on top of the crappie. The bluff wall gave up a few nice largemouth between 2-3#, a 3# channel cat, a pair of 10# buffalo that accidentally got snagged in the back and head and several bluegill. When we went to docks, we caught several kentuckies and largemouths off the end of the docks.

Blue/white and blue/silver were the best colors. Tried red/white, pink/white and white/chartreuse but they definitely seemed to go for the blue the most.

[crittermo]

thank you for the info seth

[mikes custom fly rods]

Sounds like the crappie are still not spawning yet. Did they still have eggs.

[Seth]

9 of the 11 still had eggs. The other two were males