Crappie on Thursday

[Crappie5]

Went up in Kings River on Thursday looking for Crappie. After 3 hours of trying to catch crappie the only thing caught was Bass. I was throwing a chartreuse swimming minnow and my partner was throwing white.

we probably caught 20 bass in the 14" to 14-3/4 range. We decided to quit crappie fishing and go all bass.

I went to a 4" smoke grub and my partner went to a 4" white grub and we finished the day with 10 keepers.

8 of them were all good keepers, 1 weighed 5lbs and 1 a little over 6lbs Most of these fish were right on the bank and several came out of the trees in 25' of water about 6-8' down. We did catch 2 keeper crappie, I think the crappie are there but below the bass and you could not get to the crappie before the bass took action. I seen several guys burning the banks with spinnerbaits but did not see much caught. Anyone going Sunday? I most likely will try it again then.

Good Luck and Good Day.................

[Phil Lilley]

Did you find mainly largemouth? Could you tell if they were sows or bucks?

Babler said the females were out closer to the main lake and the males closer to the spawning banks in the coves. Did you find this to be true? But he was talking about the main lake- clearer water too. You should have been fishing alittle warmer and less clear water is you were in the Kings arm.

Thanks for the report!

[Crappie5]

Yes mostly largemouth Bucks, the two big ones were Sows. When we first started fishing for Crappie we were catching a lot of Kentucky's. We were reading an average of 55 degree water. All the males came out of the coves. We fished most every cove and cut from Jackie's to Sweetwater and the 2 large ones did come from the other side of Viola. We seen several beds with large fish on them but could not get any action from them.