watchin closely

[captmac]

Have a small derby coming up the first week in May mostly for bragging rights between cops and fireman, I am the latter. We fish from Cape Fair but any where theres fish biting we will go to em. Know you locals can't give up honey holes but any help appreciated.

[captmac]

Thanks for all the info.......... just kidding have learned from other posts and am catching more fish on account of it

[Crappie5]

I have fished the Cape Fair area for the last 20 years and the end of April into the first couple weeks of May I usuallly do pretty good on the deep bluffs throwing a DD-20 or DB-30 crank bait. My favorite color is orange and chartreuse. It seems like I catch a lot of big large mouths that spawn deep or they are in a late pre-spawn period, but anyway they usually have their tails really tore up and red. I was down Yesterday and caught 5 keepers out of 17 total fish. The smallest keeper was 3.5 lb. and the largest was 6.25 lb.

Hope this helps.

[captmac]

Thanks for the info on the cape fair area will put it to use for sure

[713lefty]

Don't forget to walk the spook! Slowly, twitch, twitch, pause, repeat. Vary pause from a 2 up to a 10 count. Don't set till you feel the fish. Sometimes I've done better on the spook jr. than the full size model. It should not take too long to see what they want.

[captmac]

Thanks Lefty there is ALWAYS a spook tied on in my boat

[crappiefisherman]

capt you aint profilin are you?

[captmac]

dont even know what that is why do you ask

[crappiefisherman]

never mind ,spook was at one time a racial slurr.I may be older then you

[captmac]

oh okay nope not this time and I am over 60 so politically correct is a dirty phrase to me call em like i see em have a good one