I decided with the way the crappie had been doing, that I would try the green carp today here at the house. I had been playing around the bank this week with a spinnerbait (white w/ gold willow blades) & had been catching a couple & releasing them. The fish were shallow, & remained that way this morning 'till noon. I caught 5 bass the 1st hour in 2' of water or less very close to the bank on the same white spinnerbait. I wound up with 9 fish by noon. It was very productive. I had 3 fish over 3lbs, and all bites were good size keepers. Here are some of those keepers on the cleaning board I have at the house.

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I decided to try to go for the crappie this afternoon, and the bit was very slooooow. I caught a small male that had turned black on a bed, either protecting the fry or making a bed. With the bite so slow, I decided to go check deep to see what I could come up with. I only had 1 good keeper, 1lb 12oz. She was pretty nice fish. Here she is along with the big green carp of the day, 3lb 9 oz.


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The interesting thing about the fishing day today was the cleaning. Most all of the fish I caught today were females and about half of them had already dropped their eggs, including the big fish of the day. Interestingly enough, the big slab crappie had not dropped eggs yet. They were still light yellow, and didn't have a lot of blood vessels in it. With the way the spring has been, it wouldn't surprise me if the bass went 1st, but I am just afraid that the crappie spawn is done here on our lake. I've been watching these water temps like a hawk, and they've yet to get over 65 degrees. We have just not got the crappie moved up to the banks yet though. We'll have to wait & see what the rest of the spring holds. I'm off on vacation this week, and you can bet that I'll be on the water 4-5 days this week.