Crappie Report

[Lance34]

Is it just me or does it seem like our traditional weather patterns are off?  March was just confusing warm, cold, hot, then cold.  Got March winds in April.  Now we are getting April showers in May… What’s June gonna bring? lol

Previous trip.  I didn’t schedule any guide trips due to Mothers Day weekend.  Just in case she wanted to do something spur of the moment.  She’s like that…. lol

Had a storm roll in that morning but looked to be pretty much done by the time I would be getting to the ramp and dump the boat in the water.  Well that didn’t go as predicted.  Does it ever though?  Time line got extended about 2 more hours.  So I waited for about 45 minutes 

They kept updating it and it looked like one more storm would roll through.  Once it passed I headed out.  

Once getting to the area I wanted to fish.  I dropped the trolling in the water and saw fish right away.  Still scatter but better.  Didn’t have to cover as much water until you saw another group of them.  The thing was they wouldn’t bite.  The thunder and lightning seems to always make theyfinicky.  I just kept turning the trolling motor looking for one to put a minnow in front off.  Ended with just shy of a limit.  I’ll take it with how they were acting.  

WT was 73-75.  Pretty clear water.  Lake elevation was 1126.5.  The Corp dropping the lake faster than normal this year.  So that’s gonna change the norm up maybe.  Fished a main river flat in 12 to 17 fow.  As the day went on  they moved over deeper water.  Best was 15 fow.  They all seemed to be about 8-10 feet deep all day.  

Setup was minnow rigging BnM poles 16ft PST’s with 1oz rigs that I tie up with using vanguard tackle/Pico Lures 

I felt more confident after seeing them moving back out.  It should be any week now that they’ll get mad.  

Got a rain coming in today .  Went ahead cancel a trip out for today to be safe.  Saturday gonna play it by ear with how much rain we got to determine where to fish. 

We’ll see…. Good Fishing and God Bless Lance

 

 

 

[Quillback]

Nice cooler of slabs!

I agree, the weather has been weird all spring.  Supposed to get down in the upper 40's early Sunday morning.