Thread: Saturday 4/13/13

Well... It was 35 degrees at daylight Saturday morning on our hunting land. We heard a few birds gobble early but they shut down before we managed to get on one. No turkey.

We headed home, took a nap, and snuck over to Lake Hogue to put the boat in the water. Everyone and their kid sister was there. But we managed to catch a few.

We caught them in 4-5 FOW throwing jigs, reeling slow, fishing pretty close to the bottom. We caught a few big shellcrackers and a few small crappie. None of the crappie that we caught had any real size to them.

We fished 3 hours, caught about 15 and kept 8. The shellcrackers were caught on an orange and chartreuse jig (cajun cricket) and the crappie were mostly caught on pink and chartreuse combinations. We threw large variety of colors in that three hours trying to find something that the crappie liked but those two color combos were the most productive.

FYI Water Temp at Lake Hogue was 66 degrees.

Good catch, sounds like a fun filled day!

Originally Posted by Mojorig

Good Luck, Im getting married that day. Hopefully she will cooperate too!!

Hope you found a good one. I have the best. Takes a exceptional woman to put up with a fisherman. Even more for one like me that fishes about 200 days a year and hunts a few more. congrats and best wishes to you both. Maybe you can bring her to the next Crappie camp..

Here are some pictures of some big redear and a decent crappie from our sample on Lake Hogue on April 11. We seen well over 20 or 30 redear that size or bigger.

Wow those are some huge redears!

I was at lake Hogue saturday also. Had my boy and nephew with me. We caught over 100 crappie. Only kept 11 crappie and 4 bream. The eleven ranged from 11-14.5' inches. The biggest weighed 1lb 9 oz. We fished from around 8am to 5 pm. I've never fished Hogue and caught so many small crappie until this year. I don't know what is going on with them. Saturday was one of the best days for wind I have ever had on Hogue. We used chartreuse jigs with blue glitter in them and Bobby Garland baby shad in shad color with glitter on the top side fishing about 3' deep. All the bigger fish were caught in the afternoon. Probably could have caught more if My nephew and son understood how hard it is to tell you're getting a bite when the boat is rocking up and down from them moving around so much. Went back Tuesday by myself and it was nearly the same thing over again. Except for the wind was blowing pretty hard.

We were only there about 3 hours and we were probably fishing a little too deep but we caught several large shell crackers. All of our crappie were smaller. I plan to try it a while this Saturday morning but have to be at a family event in the afternoon.