Friday crappie trip

[Lance34]

Got out yesterday mid morning.  Water temp 46-47.  Spider rigging minnows towards the back of a creek arm up the river.  It didn't take too long before I hooked up to a striper that was way bigger than what I've been catching.  Guessing 20 plus pounds.  It snapped my line like a rubber band.  The problem was I use cheap reels and the line got tangled up in the spool and it was  pulling line and got stuck and snapped.  My fault for being a tight wad!  

Anyway eventually after some adjusts to my rigs I found a school of crappie holding in 15 feet of water between 6-12 feet down.  I stayed on them until they shut down.  

I quit a little early to break stuff down so I could go try some brush.  I went to a lay down that I know that always holds fish.  But, all I could catch was overachievers.   

Ended the day with nine crappie.  I would of had my limit if I wasn't trying this different kind of minnow rig I tied this week at the start.  Don't fix nothing that ain't broken right?  Have a good weekend out there.  God Bless.  Here some pics.

[Robert Haynes]

Nice catch, I am just now setting up for spider rigging hoping it will help me in my catching of Crappie. 

[Lance34]

48 minutes ago, Robert Haynes said:

Nice catch, I am just now setting up for spider rigging hoping it will help me in my catching of Crappie. 

Good deal.  Feel free to hit me up if you need any tips

[Stump bumper]

Some 10lb test and a heavier rod and you could have cleaned one fish instead of four.....just saying. Sounds like a nice day, surprised you did't get any whites, again.

[Lance34]

3 hours ago, Stump bumper said:

Some 10lb test and a heavier rod and you could have cleaned one fish instead of four.....just saying. Sounds like a nice day, surprised you did't get any whites, again.

For sure sir a heavier rod would be better.  I do use use 10 pound fluorocarbon.  But, like I said the line on the reel locked up and wouldn't spool off and snapped.  It's all good though.   It was a nice day and a good number of a mess of crappie I went home with made the boss happy.  

Me too, I'm surprised I haven't got into a cluster off whites yet.  Don't want to!! 

[Dan the fisherman]

Way to go Lance.  Glad ur getting into them.  ??