Crappie are hot!

[WHARFRAT]

As far as quality and quantity, today has been about as good as I've done in a long time this year.  Probably had a couple of days in March that were like today.

Weather was nice, and calm for the morning.  Water temp was 49-50.  Started out away from docks on some sunken brush.   Nothing! Did that for about 15 minutes, went to the closest dock and shot a 16oz Baby shad and pulled out a nice 11 inch fish.  Never looked back after that.  Fish were pretty aggressive,  lots of 10" fish, but more 11 inchers.  Most were white crappie, only a handful of black crappie.

They were hitting about 8-9' deep.  Wound up with 5 or 6 over 12".  And 3 over 13".  

Thank god for November and December to salvage what I thought was a spotty crappie season.

[WeekendWarrior]

Nice! Heard they were snapping pretty good. What area of lake?

[fishinwrench]

That's what I needed to hear.   

[WHARFRAT]

Big niangua, between bridal cave and larry gale.

Here are the few that we'll eat.

[fishinwrench]

Dude !    

I need to get a mess of those.

[stuartsx5]

I fished that area today but I was looking for whites. Looks like I was chasing the wrong fish. Good job Wrench

[Old plug]

I am doing all my crappie fishing in a spot 10x 28. I got two keepers this afternoon about 2pm got one yesterday that was one of the biggest I have gotten in awhile. Was real close to 17". Was over a inch thick. These fish I catch in my stall are usually in thereto feed.never more than a couple ft deep. As a rule. I have been spending most of my fishing time in my yard trying to learn to cast with my right arm. 

[marcus]

if i wasnt chasing around big bucks i would be there...save some fish for the rest of us !!  good job

[Seth]

They bit pretty well below Bagnell Saturday as well. The bite died off by 10am though and then it got tough so we switched over to bass and caught a bunch of spotted bass.

[mjk86]

holy cow those are some giants!!  Wish i could find some of those!