Short Crappie Report

[Targa98]

We put in at ruark at daylight, the ramp and dock are very useable. Beautiful morning but to me it was very muddy water. Less that 1ft vis.  I started shallow on some of my favorite spots and finally found a few fish. They were isolated 3 or 4 here and there. I used FFS and quickly picked off 6 or 7 but my partner never got bit. It was hard without seeing where they were. These fish were right on the edge of trees sitting above the flooded bushes. My bite died around 830 or so after the sun come up. It got real tough to use the FFS with the sun and dirty water so we decided to troll some #6  flicker shads. We caught 4 more keeper crappie in random places and left around 1. We caught 9 females and 2 males. We found clear water in Googer Creek but only had 1 fish in there. Wind made it tough for me to cast light jigs so we only trolled back there. If I had to do it again I would have left the water at 10 am with that high sun and HOT temps. Best color flicker was anything with blue. Best early jig color for us was red head, smoke body. Hope this helps someone out there. For what it's worth we ran into the same couple at the ramp leaving that put in at the same time. Also said it was tough sledding and the had 8 crappie to show... we also caught and threw back several White bass and a couple very short walleye.  Good Luck!!!

[bologna]

Thanks for the update, I'm going this weekend