I picked up a pair of 4 rod holders at the spring shindig. I put one on the front deck, and one on the rear deck and hit the water with a guy from work today after we closed down. The air temp was 81 when we left the shop and the surface water temp was 68 degrees. I quickly scanned the deeper water in the creek and it was pretty much empty so I headed back in the creek to the flats. No more than 2-3 minutes after we started pulling in 5 FOW, my buddy caught his personal best crappie. A nice un. 15-16" range. Fifteen minutes later we were so tired of our jigs getting balled up with milfoil we left the shallow water and wasted the rest of the afternoon dragging jigs around, with only one more crappie caught. We should have quit and started beating the banks, but I'm stubborn. LOL

I'm sure spider rigging would be a better choice when the fish are shallow but even with that, there's still the floating wads of milfoil to contend with.

It's been so long since I've fished the lake in the spring I've forgotten what I use to know.

Why is this stuff breaking loose and floating around at this time of the year? I thought it just did that when it was dying off in the late fall. If it wasn't for the floating mess that's broken loose, I could have kept the jigs above the stuff that's starting to grow.

Any way to fish this junk? Dipping minnows with long rods? I'm guessing a float and jig would work okay.

I knew it wasn't the right day to long line but I wanted to try out my newly aquired tactic, thanks to the spring camp. I'll admit, when he caught that slab I was probably happier than he was. Just wish we had been able to stay in the weeds and fish.