Saturday 4/9

[Champ89]

Had a small 10 boat tournament up in the Niangua on Saturday 4/9 (post front – day 2). Not many fish were weighed in, however there was a 4.15, 5.4, 5.11 and a 7.5 brought to the scales from 4 different boats. All caught on cranks or jigs. Most came from the 5 to 10 foot range. And as always a few good fish, were lost as well.  Water had good color and temps were 55-59. We were hoping the crappie would have been up on the bank spawning with the full moon and all but they were pretty slow.  

[Bigin64083]

I was fishing from the dock on the 42mm and the crappie were really slow.  The ones caught were shallow in about 3 feet of water on jigs.  Hopefully a week of warm weather and the rain last night will speed things up next weekend.

[Seth]

Crappie were hanging out in 12-20' of water around brush on the Glaize arm that day. You could fill the boat quick during the last 30 minutes of light. It was a fish nearly every cast at that point.

[MOsmallies]

7 hours ago, Seth said:

Crappie were hanging out in 12-20' of water around brush on the Glaize arm that day. You could fill the boat quick during the last 30 minutes of light. It was a fish nearly every cast at that point.

We had very similar results Seth in the Mid Lake area. Fished crappie from 4 to 7:30 pm on Saturday (4/9). We grinded out a limit between 4 and 7 and then caught another limit and 10 shorts between 7 and 7:30 pm. All on jigs... Most were on a 1/32 oz black/chartreuse tube jig 4 ft deep under a cork and the rest were on 1/16 oz road runners (blue ice and blue/chartreuse).

[WHARFRAT]

Great picture  

[DADAKOTA]

Nicely done.  Littleman seems to be enjoying it all.

[MOsmallies]

4 hours ago, DADAKOTA said:

Nicely done.  Littleman seems to be enjoying it all.

Yep... He enjoys holding them and throwing the carcasses in the lake... Makes me grin from ear to ear to watch him!