Crappie Report ??

[jcmojo]

Just an un-educated guess, but I'm thinking the crappie have been put into limbo, and with some warm days and nights will resume their spawning ritual. On the lower part of LOZ they had hardly got started, and shouldn't have been affected much. If the weather stays warm that part of the lake should still experience a good spawn. I think that in the areas where the crappie were further along in the spawn mode those areas may not experience the "big rush" to the banks, but rather a subdued finish to the spawn. In my 50 years of crappie fishing I don't recall such extreme weather as we've had this spring. Many times we have a gradual buildup of warm days interrupted by short cool down periods with a final long warm period when the "big one" takes place. Sometimes we don't get the final long warm spell and the spawn kind of fizzles. This is a whole different ball game this year. As I said before this is just a guess. It will be interesting to see what really does happen.

[twosets]

I am very interested in how the rest of this will pan out,

Please keep us posted jcmojo and thanks for the input. My guys caught some crappie deep on thursday, put did not make the walleye part of the trip as the river was muddy from the rain. I went down sat night for the poker game and Fished at bennett springs today. Water was high and fast and white jigs were the ticket.

George