Lake Quachita

[slabbandit]

I was talking to a friend at work tonight that lives at Buckville on Lake Quachita. I was showing him some pics of the PVC crappie structures that "Tacobender" builds.
He was telling me how bad the moss grows down to about 25 feet. He didn't get to fish much this spring with work and illnesses but he told me about a particular outing that he and his wife shared.
He said that they had crappie fished up to about 11:00 without any luck. They ducked into a cove to eat lunch and get out of the wind. Bob said he didn't want to have to stay on the trolling motor so they tied up to this one stump. The water in this cove was about 40 feet deep in the middle and was fed by a runoff. He said that he turned around and was sitting on the deck so that he could use the ice chest as a table. While his wife was cutting up the summer sausage or whatever they had to eat Bob said that he cast out a Red/White jig and counted down to about 6 and started retrieving. He felt a slight tick but didn't think much of it until he started feeling resistance. He boated a nice 15 inch crappie.
As he slipped it into the livewell his wife said that that was a fluke. Bob made an identical cast and caught another one. Needless to say Betty put the lunch down and started fishing.
When it was all said and done they had a limit apiece (40 total) of beautifully colored prespawn slabs between 13 and 17 inches all while tied up to this one stump! He said that they were actually fishing about 16 feet of water with moss coming up to within 8 feet of the surface. Bob said by counting down their jigs to 6 they were drawing the slabs up out of the top of the moss beds.
He said that they were so beautifully colored that he just wished that he could have mounted them all!

[Arkie John]

I don't fish much on the north bank since I live on the south side but that is a wonderful story of what we all strive for. Such a simple pattern!!!

That kind of story gets the ole' blood to pumpin'! Thanks for sharing with us. I might just have to drive around and fish that area again this spring.

aj

[slabbandit]

Glad that you enjoyed it AJ! Thanks
Dave

[prchjerker]

We were at Quachita back in 90 I believe for a Crappiethon USA championship and found a similar pattern.We were on the Southwest end of the lake and found a point that had grass growing within about 8 foot under the surface.We had what we call up North a good walleye chop and drifted across the top of the point.We caught some nice fish up to 2 pounds as they would come up put of the weeds and tag our baits.The tournament day the wind laid and we used the trolling motor to pull across the same weed bed the problem though the water was too clear and they werent as willing to come up and hit a bait.We ended up pulling off the point anchoring up and tail hook our minnows on a slip bobber,Then we pitched them to the edge of the weedline and theyd start to swim towards the weeds for cover.the crappie bailed out of the weed edge and smoked the minnows.Beautiful lake and country down there.PJ