3-1-16 mixed bag trip

[merc1997 Bo]

good way to miss lots of lake traffic is to go on bad days that everyone else stays home or went trout fishing.  spent a good portion of the trip chasing crappie and had 12 to 15 keepers.  actually caught very few shorts today.  we caught them from two feet of water to 16 feet.  several keepers were in very shallow water.

on the bass side, just had one nice 2 1/2 lb. chunk, and it came on a jerk bait.  the jerk bait produced about a dozen bass, crank bait 4, and jig 8,  depths for the bass varied just as much as the crappie.  caught a couple 20 ft. deep on the jig.

attached is a pic of a crappie double, and the days arsenal of lures.  don't laugh at the longbill and the particular color.  that funny looking thing has won a ton of money over the years, and they keep biting it every year.

bo

 

[Jozark]

Bo

Nice report looks like you caught some nice crappie. 

Is that an old smithwick spoonbill?

[176champion]

Nice catch Bo...

[cheesemaster]

Congratulations Merc. Love the pics.

[abkeenan]

Nice report and pics of the tools used to slay the beasts. Looks like that Don Iovino wart hawg crank is working for ya.

[merc1997 Bo]

10 hours ago, Jozark said:

Bo

Nice report looks like you caught some nice crappie. 

Is that an old smithwick spoonbill?

nope, that is a rebel, and you need some rebels and smithwick both, because the wobble is different between the two.  the rebel wobble is more subtle than the smithwick.

bo

[Champ188]

Good job, bo.

[BassBlind]

What an awesome post. This helps out a newer guy like myself so much. Love seeing the lures you are using and thanks for sharing.

 

When finding the crappie, are you just looking for brushpiles? I know some people are hitting them on mudflats as well. 

[merc1997 Bo]

1 hour ago, BassBlind said:

What an awesome post. This helps out a newer guy like myself so much. Love seeing the lures you are using and thanks for sharing.

 

When finding the crappie, are you just looking for brushpiles? I know some people are hitting them on mudflats as well. 

we did catch a few crappie very shallow, and i am talking in two or three feet of water, but most of them came on the flat side of the river channel right on the river edge.  of course it helps to locate an area with something for them to gather around.

bo

[olbasser]

Congrats on the catch especially the jig fish.  Fished a jig on this pond for 20+ yrs with decent fish.  Haven't found a jig bite let alone a jig fish in my last 60 or so hours on the water.  Just need to keep practicing I guess ?