Thread: Surprise Lake Maumelle Action

My favorite waters for Crappie are ones with plenty of cover. You know, Logs, stumps, brush, tops ect. and coffee stained type waters. Well... it was with great hesitancy I ventured out to the Old "Dead Sea" as it was once called, Lake Maumelle. I'm sick of the "crowd" at the usual water holes here of late around here. And there are tons of folks. So on this cool morning I ventured out with great confidence in my Ranger on big water.... But I wasn't so confident about being out of my element of Wood cover to fish. The lake is down a good three feet and dangerous back up the creek. But I stayed out in the Main lake and looked around for the underwater cover, or structure. You know...Road bed...bridge. I hunted for a while and had the Hummingbird set on 3d mode. I passed over what looked like a "Hay bale" and quickly hit split screen to show 2d screen and Fish tags !! BOOM!! in 30 Feet of water there they were...a Whole pack of medium size tags at 15 feet. I quickly threw out a marker...then a second marker. Cut the motor and grabbed a light Spin cast with Bobbie Garland in Char and red flake with redhead. 1/16" oz. Counted down with a smooth cast over and through school, and to my astonished surprise...BANG !!! They would hit it when I would hesitate the retrieve and let it drop. I Caught 14 and kept 10 gooduns. It was peaceful with few boats out there. Three Bald Eagles were diving near by and playing.

And a rather large Water bird was hanging out with me diving and getting His share.
He showed up when I started catching them.... go figure.