4/2-4/3 Stockton Crappie.

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A friend came down from Iowa for a few days of fishing. After spinning our wheels in Kansas and Oklahoma Thursday and Friday we hit Stockton and the fury of the wind Saturday and Sunday. Both days we fished from 2 p.m till just after dark. The last hour from approximately 7:30 to 8:30 is the most productive. Saturdays catch in 57.5 degree water on the Big Sac arm was 13 crappie and 1 walleye. Sundays catch 7 crappie 1 walleye and 2 nice keeper bass on crappie jigs that weighed in the 3 lb range. Saturdays quality size was outstanding. The male female ratio was about the same. The females look to be 10 days to two weeks before ready to spawn.  We also caught some huge female white bass and were just yards away from them on a flat busting shad on the surface. We instead concentrated on the crappie in 8-12'. I used a 1/32 red,white,chartreuse tube jig and partner was throwing a 1/16 oz roadrunner.  We took out both nights about 9 p.m. The lot at Mutton N. was empty Saturday night and there was two vehicles at Ruark last night ( one vehicle was a bow fisherman we saw across from Chicken Rock). I will post a picture that a friend sent of a Kansas crappie.