Trip Report 6/6/20

[straw hat]

The wife and I put in at CC this morning and spent the first 4 hours after crappie. Not a bite and very few on the fish finder. After that we changed to catfish. We knew that they had been picking up a few spawners on the rock riprap at CC so we went shallow off the flooded buck brush and only found 1 small channel. we then moved to a steep rock bank and worked it. Nothing. Very strange. We went to another rock bank and the wife fished it shallow for spawning channels and I fished 15 to 20 feet deep for flatheads. I had caught a few in that area before. I managed to come up with 4 flatheads but pretty small.

Water temperature 77 to 79F. Water was very green up toward Turnback but only slightly stained a mile or two north of bridge. They must be pulling water out of the lake fast because a fairly strong current. Still a few big logs on the surface and a lot of leaves from the storm 2 days ago. This is 3 trips in a row without even one crappie. This is usually a good time of year for us. Oh well, that is fishing.

[liphunter]

straw hat, Have you, or have you talk to anyone night fishing for crappie anywhere on the lake. Thought I would give it a try soon. May try Truman soon as well.

[MrGiggles]

Crank pulling is hot right now for crappie. Doesn't seem to matter much where you go, but the mouths of coves are a good place to start.

[Sam]

Since crappie are off the nests and brushpiles are still too deep to hold fish until the water level drops, we're having slow fishing also.  Slow, but not impossible.

Partner and I went out of State Park yesterday, Friday.  The water is real clear and 77 degrees as you said.  We were slow-trolling minnows on lead jigheads in 16 f.o.w.  It was a 92 degree sunny day and just miserable out there after 11 a.m. so we quit at noon.

We brought home 8 crappie, 1 19-inch walleye, and 1 big white bass.  We caught and released a whole bunch of short bass and a couple of keeper size bass, so the bass kept us entertained.  6 of the crappie were males and 2 were females re-absorbing old eggs, all were white crappie and we didn't catch any short crappie at all - they were all around 11-12 inches.

So it wasn't a real productive trip, but we've had worse.  Hoping the water level will drop soon and make those brushpiles fishable.  We didn't really do any good until September last year when the level finally got back to near-normal.

[straw hat]

I haven't heard anything about night fishing for crappie yet but if the lake drops some more then it should kick in.