Last Trip Until Spring

[bwcballer10]

Had Monday and Tuesday off work so I decided to head to the river and give the crappie one last shot before I pick up the deer rifle. I got to the river right at daybreak Monday morning and launched the boat. I was putting my 15th crappie on the stringer by 7:30. I prolly caught 35 or 40 total to get the 15 keepers. The wind was blowing stiff enough out of the north I figured I would see if I could find any whites on the lake in the 245 bridge cove. I fished for a couple of hours and caught and released 17 or 18 good sized whites, it was a blast! I had a buddy go back to the river with me Tuesday and we got a later start but still found lots and lots of crappie. We ended up with 25 keepers (probably between 90-100 total crappie.) I caught all of my fish on minnows both days but my buddy tossed a shad colored swimmin minnow on an 1/8 ounce head and did pretty well too. We didn't find any real big slabs but had a couple of 11 and half inchers, most keepers were between 10 and 10 and half. We loaded up the boat and went back to the 245 bridge to see if the whites were still there. Suprisingly, we didn't catch a single white bass (the wind was still hitting the cove hard but no whites to be found.) Right before dark we tied to one of the bridge pillars and he caught 4 or 5 more crappie and I managed a 24 in walleye (nice surprise!) It was a great couple of days off work and a great way to wrap up my fishing season (won't be after them again until the spring white bass run) Time to go chase whitetails now!