Doty-Lilley Crappie Trip 4/29-30

Trolling or drifting can be very rewarding there almost any time of year. If you can get a wind that will blow you from the back to the mouth of a long cove this time of year you can really get into the crappie. Roadrunners or 3" smoke grubs is what we caught them on growing up.

a drift sock was always in my boat on Stockton, with a pool float on the rope, it was the difference when fishing was tougher, point 6 up toward the dam, produced  bigger crappie and more walleyes for me, when everyone was pounding the creek arms. 

1/16 oz roadrunner heads (poured our own) white head swimming minnow body with a gold willow leaf blade was hard to beat as was chartreuse/ black /chartreuse silver blade, if we were after walleyes alone 1/8th black head /chartreuse blade and 1/2 crawler was our go-to...4lbs green mono...

also slip bobbers at night on main lake /secondary points will catch limits of walleyes from now till 2nd week in June, they sell bobbers that take a glow stick, or you can use a latern and the bobbers will jump out at you when the light is shined across the water (NOT IN TO IT) if you can get them, canadian leaches are my top bait at night, followed by crawlers and big shiners last

Mona was the better fisherwoman that day boys!

14 hours ago, MoCarp said:

a drift sock was always in my boat on Stockton, with a pool float on the rope, it was the difference when fishing was tougher, point 6 up toward the dam, produced  bigger crappie and more walleyes for me, when everyone was pounding the creek arms. 

The ol' 5 gallon does the trick too. We also used to catch bait and drift the flats outside Googer Creek in summer. Walleye when the sun was high and catfish at night. 

6 hours ago, MickinMO said:

The ol' 5 gallon does the trick too. We also used to catch bait and drift the flats outside Googer Creek in summer. Walleye when the sun was high and catfish at night. 

yeah I have done that, some nice cats in Stockton, that flats area has some dandy channels used to put a light out for shad  and toss a net and drift fish and would catch some nice channels and a few whites that way in summer