1/5 fishing

[Rootman]

Put in at Roark as many did today and ended up catching about 50 crappie, unfortunately most were shorts.  Brought home 12 keepers.  Caught them in 20-30 ft over brush on mostly monkey milk color, some on electric chicken.  Was a nice day on the water, small fish are better than none!  Hope others had better luck with the keepers.  

[waterpossum]

We had an extremely hard time finding crappie Saturday out of the same ramp.  Caught about a dozen shorts and 5 keepers, which we returned to the water. We tried 12 different brush pile locations and found fish in only one pile in 18'. Fishing can sure humble a man, especially given how easy it has been to catch a good amount  before the two foot lake rise. For one, the shad I had been graphing just were not there.  Usually late winter there is a shad movement up river. It seems a little early for that, but I guess I'll give it a try and go looking Wednesday.

[Dbeard4u]

Went out from CC greenfield ramp Saturday and had no luck. Just very few fish no the graph. Beautiful day though. Love the water..