5-12-17 Tailwaters

[Seth]

Lots of shad along the look out wall. We got several and drifted cut shad for catfish for the first few hours and only had two bites. There were a lot of boats crappie fishing and catching plenty so we switched over to that. Crappie bit well on pretty well any color we threw. The key was getting the bait down near the bottom. We mostly vertical fished to avoid snagging paddlefish. They are extremely thick right now and it's almost impossible to throw across the current without snagging into one. We fished on the boat ramp side, but we saw plenty of crappie caught across from the ramp in the eddies.

[dnj21]

Co-worker fished the ramp side Sat and did pretty well on white jigs among the flooded trees.  Guy he was with caught a couple Blues (bait unk) and a Walleye to go along with the Crappie.  If you can figure out the high water and where to find them, sounded like they were biting well......

[Seth]

There was a couple anchored in the middle of the eddy up from the ramp fishing minnows right on the bottom and they could barely keep up with two rods. It was like that for them the entire time we were there. I can't tell you the last time I used minnows for crappie, but I wasn't wishing I had some that day.