Bridgeport crappie report

[ges]

Fished Wed evening and Thursday morning , went from bear den cove to near point 15 looking for crappie , caught 8  6 keepers , wind was terrible , could not get any pattern what so ever few fish near the bank  few more in 15 ft  tried a few brush piles no takers  . Minnow and jig was what we used ,Sorry no water temp , water was very stained  , Very few boats in area also for this time of year . 30 to 35 mph guest may of slowed folks down. Heading to Big M area tomorrow see what is going on there. 

[marcus]

at least you caught enough for a fish sandwich 

[skeeter]

ha ha....understatement of the year (, ) "wind was terrible". 

[mjk86]

Seems like table rock crappie reports show up from Feb to April. Then no more all year.  Where do they go in the summer?   At stockton they just go out to the middle of the spawning cove and suspend around any structure or bait.  Trolled cranks 10 to 15 feet down catches em good. They are even more catchable for me in may and june.  Any ideas as to why they seem to behave differently on table rock?  Maybe they scatter or relate purely to shad amd are just not numerous? I've never crappie fished on table rock,  but it sure seems like mum is the word after they spawn.  

[bobby b.]

We have been catching some off our dock (Indian Point area) - cleaned 9 the other day but they were just barely legal size - mostly males.  

Question - two weeks ago they were good size (one was 2.5 pounds).  Why bigger then and all smaller now?

Bobby

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

We were out Wednesday battling the wind, caught around 30  with 10 keepers. All were caught after the storms passed around noon. Wind made it very difficult to get my 1/32nd  jig where i wanted it. All these were caught up Flat Creek tight in brush, most in deeper structure. Water temp from Bridgeport to back up in the Creek was 60-61.

[Biglerma]

Headed down to Shell Knob today, going to fish way up Kings.  Hope we can find some shallow.... by far my fav way to catch em.  Would love to see warm water temps up river.. fingers crossed! 

[Devan S.]

Biglerma. I fished this week in the Kings area for crappie. I found them in area where the wind was blowing into the bank and where there were lay downs. Caught a few shallow but most deeper. Really spread out but was able to duplicate the pattern in 3 or 4 spots. My guess with the wind this week and weekend you could nearly duplicate that pattern all up and down the kings. We also ended up catching a few whites in the same areas.

[merc1997 Bo]

On 4/8/2016 at 9:47 PM, ges said:

Fished Wed evening and Thursday morning , went from bear den cove to near point 15 looking for crappie , caught 8  6 keepers , wind was terrible , could not get any pattern what so ever few fish near the bank  few more in 15 ft  tried a few brush piles no takers  . Minnow and jig was what we used ,Sorry no water temp , water was very stained  , Very few boats in area also for this time of year . 30 to 35 mph guest may of slowed folks down. Heading to Big M area tomorrow see what is going on there. 

pretty good job considering fishing in a hurricane.  the crappie are in and out and up and down just as much as the bass.

bo