crappie

[sandbc]

well I have the same story as everyone else on catching tons of short crappie but it is finally starting to turn around I believe.  for the last four weeks my brother and I have caught a boat load of shorts and each week a handful of keepers with the handful getting a little bigger each week.  last week we cleaned 8 with a couple of nice ones.  this week we cleaned 14 with at least 5 nice 12 inchers.  he went back out today and told me he cleaned 13 with one being 13.5 inches long.  most were caught in 20 foot of water around trees between 8 ft deep and the bottom on minnows or vertical jigging chartruse.  crappie should be plentiful next year.  good luck

[KC Steve]

Finally... some good news! Glad to hear about the keepers!

[jwilson48]

Glad to hear it's looking up for someone.  We have went the last couple weeks and it's been more of the same.  Boat full of dinks, 10-12 keepers, and only 1 nice one.  We've fished every part of the lake we caught big ones last year and they just aren't there.  We've fished a lot of new areas and they just aren't there lol.  To say we are lost is an understatement.  Where we were catching big ones this spring I really thought they should be close by but they just aren't there.  The bluegill fishing has been good in brush though.  Sad to say a couple weeks ago we brought home more bluegill than crappie. 

[sandbc]

same story this weekend as I reported above only we cleaned 25 crappie this time although most were just barely 9 inches.