Crappie Bite 3/4/17

[Johnsfolly]

Livie and I got out again going for crappie. This time we were fishing a MDC lake near our home that we fish regularly.  We got out around 4:30 pm and started fishing 1/64 oz jigs under floats. I had on a white and chartreuse and she was fishing a black and yellow jig. I caught and landed the first crappie of the evening. This was a 9-10 inch black crappie.

 

I caught another crappie and a couple of bluegill while Livie wasn't getting many bites and landed only a small bluegill.

She switched to the white/chartreuse jigs and started catch both crappie and bluegill. Then both she and I caught the unexpected, a few golden shiners. I had caught some in this lake a couple of years ago and hadn't caught one since then. Livie has never caught one before. So I was really excited catching this species and having both of us landing them. My second shiner may be the largest that I have ever caught..

But we came to catch crappie. Between 5:15 and 6:00 pm was when we got the most crappie bites. Livie became the CRAPPIE MONSTER!!! As she landed several bigger crappie.

Once the sun began to set, the crappie bite slowed and most of the bites were bluegill. At that time we packed up and headed home. So the ones we kept ranged from 9.25 to 11" in length.

Livie wanted to learn and she got to fillet three of these crappie. She didn't do too bad a job. I got the rest of the fish cleaned and am looking forward to a couple of fresh crappie meals. If the weather is like tonight, we may even try to get mom out with us tomorrow evening. Probably won't keep any if we do get out again.

 

[Hammer time]

Great report and awesome for the experience she enjoyed and shared. Her smile tells the whole story!!!

[Ham]

Nice ! Bring some red wiggles and see if the Golden Shiners don't play a lot more. 

[Quillback]

That's great that ya'll got into those crappie.  I haven't had fried fish in a while, I need to get out and try to catch a few of those things.

[BilletHead]

    Way to go John and Livie,

Fish fry at Johnsfolly's place. Everyone is welcome . Big shiners are a pretty neat surprise. We get into some every year on ponds. They like a small fly and will really hit them hard.

 BilletHead

[Johnsfolly]

1 hour ago, BilletHead said:

    Way to go John and Livie,

Fish fry at Johnsfolly's place. Everyone is welcome . Big shiners are a pretty neat surprise. We get into some every year on ponds. They like a small fly and will really hit them hard.

 BilletHead

They also fight pretty hard on thsee light rigs we use for panfish. It was fun catching them. We didn't have a tape with us, but I would estimate my second one was over 8 inches long. I marked it's length on my rod. So can get a better estimate.