Crappie Saturday 4/18/20

[Lance34]

Got started about 9:30 yesterday morning.  WT 54 and got up to 60.  Slightly stained water clarity.  Got one right away in 20 fow at 17 feet down but shortly after I hooked into a 24 inch striper that went through 4 of my other lines.  After about 30 or so minutes of tying new rigs on and running line back through eyelets of 3, 16 foot poles I was back to fishing.   But geez it wasn’t much after that I got into another 24 inch striper.   It was 10:45 then.  It was quite for about 45 minutes.  Caught a few dink crappie but no keepers.   Then boy it happened again another 22” striper!!  It got into another line so spent about 15 minutes tying a couple more rigs on again.  It was getting close to about noon and haven’t really put a pattern together yet.  Had one crappie in the well and dragging striper on a stringer when it started I caught a crappie at 10 foot down in 20 foot of water.  Then caught another at 10 foot down.   They were on the bottom but didn’t want it there.  Wanted to shoot up to it I guess.  Either that or they came to life around noon.

Got a limit pretty steady and fished to about 3:30.  Ended with striper and 5 big female whites that I gave to fellas out there fishing.

At the end of the day through all the stripers and white bass tangles I think I tied up rigs 10 times.  Been awhile since that happened.  

God bless and good fishing Lance

[Greg B.]

Nice work again Lance.  I got out there at 1:00 and my new ultrex decided it wanted to just go in circles.  Spent an aggravating hour trying to fix things so I could at least fish.  No dice. It’s in the electronics.   Gotta take her to the marina tomorrow.  Glad you got em!  

[Lance34]

21 minutes ago, Greg B. said:

Nice work again Lance.  I got out there at 1:00 and my new ultrex decided it wanted to just go in circles.  Spent an aggravating hour trying to fix things so I could at least fish.  No dice. It’s in the electronics.   Gotta take her to the marina tomorrow.  Glad you got em!  

Ah man!  Hopefully back up and running soon 

[Greg B.]

Thanks.  Me too.  The sad part is how many fish I was seeing on the sonar!  Of course this happens just when I think things are getting good!  Anyway, congrats on your haul.  Hope to see you back out there soon.  

[Johnsfolly]

It's an interesting trip when your by catch are 22+" stripers. Congrats on a few nice crappie! 

[TrophyFishR]

You're report is spot on, man. I found the exact same thing yesterday. Rigging 8-12ft deep in 15-20 FOW. 

There's no point in fishing shallow. All that stuff has been hammered to death.

Tuesday afternoon had as much fishing pressure & boat traffic as Memorial Day Weekend.