Thread: A couple slabs

Originally Posted by brent

JT,
With the color Beaver matching a southern dirt road for the past month did you ever catch any spawning crappie this spring? The spawn is over right? Also, have you ever spider rigged on Beaver before?

The spawn has not started yet. I have caught a few small males in Hickory Creek and points south into the river in the flooded junk. I only caught one female and she was full of eggs. They were all bleach white and very thin.
I went to one of my deep holes the other day and graphed a ton of crappie in 54 feet of water down 40 feet. I don't think most of the crappie have even made that move to the bank. The water temp down there is probably still pretty cool without much sunlight penetrating that deep. They may still think it's winter and for that matter still night!!!
I have not spider rigged but several do on the upstream end of the lake.

at least some one is doin good

If you spend a little bit of time on Beaver right now you can still find some fish. I went out on Thurs and caught 23 crappie and 5 LM. Two of the crappie were 14" and another 4 were 12". One of the females had already spawned out and the others were trying. I was fishing some pockets that had a surface temp of 68 degrees. The fish I caught were in 8' of water and were about 1' deep in the brush. I also saw a couple wall hanger GAR. There were a few crusing the pockets that were every bit of 5' long. I sure wish I had my bowfishing rig in the boat with me. I will surely carry it along in the future.

Originally Posted by silverbasskilla

That fish you call a Green Carp is actually a Largemouth Bass.

Surely you knew he was saying that 'tongue-in-cheek'!?

Originally Posted by grits and gravy

If you spend a little bit of time on Beaver right now you can still find some fish. I went out on Thurs and caught 23 crappie and 5 LM. Two of the crappie were 14" and another 4 were 12". One of the females had already spawned out and the others were trying. I was fishing some pockets that had a surface temp of 68 degrees. The fish I caught were in 8' of water and were about 1' deep in the brush. I also saw a couple wall hanger GAR. There were a few crusing the pockets that were every bit of 5' long. I sure wish I had my bowfishing rig in the boat with me. I will surely carry it along in the future.

You must be fishing up the river. I will try the rivers and Hickory on Wednesday.

Do ya think green carp cud rayz enuff curyosotee fur startin a club or purhaps a tourneymint....sinserrly Ray Scott Jr

Originally Posted by Bullsprig

Do people actually fish for them?? If so there might be some way to commercialize it and make a few dollars.

That might just work!:D