Fellows report 5-21

[slabstacker]

Ran to fellows mid day yesterday for a few hours. Caught around thirty crappie with 10 finding their way to the live well. Fish are really turned on right now.  Most of what we caught was real shallow, 4 to 6 feet of water. We caught most everything on a 1/32 ounce jig about 2 or 3 feet under a float. Jigs were tipped with 1" gulp minnows in watermelon pearl and the smelt color.  All the fish were caught out of weed beds, it was real windy so we just went into coves on the north side of the lake that were protected from the wind and scanned them until we found weed beds in 10' of water or less and then started casting around them. Most of the beds were pretty active, lots of minnows jumping out of the water around them so we new there was fish in them.  You have to weed through a few small fish before finding one keeper size but they are all fun. Something about seeing a bobber go under brings the kid out of a person.

[Tehmilz4]

Just to add to your report. It was super windy that morning and I was only able to catch small crappie. Switched to bass fishing for last 30 minutes and was able to pull out this chunky 3lb bass from brush near banks.

[misfitfishingco]

Bass are friends, not food. 

[Harps]

Nothing wrong with eating an occasional bass. They're fairly tasty.

[misfitfishingco]

8 hours ago, Harps said:

Nothing wrong with eating an occasional bass. They're fairly tasty.

Except that they are quite poisonous!  Better just stick with crappie, whites, walleye, and cats to be safe.