Thread: Good day on Darbonne - Pics

My son, David, and his wife took my boat over to Darbonne last Friday and had some good action after getting the lay of the lake, tips, and some homemade jigheads from Ron (ONEON), who lives on the lake and fishes it often. They started fishing at 9:00 am and by 12:00 noon they had five fish. They finally figured out what presentation and color they were hitting and by 5:00 those two had caught over 60 Crappie. They only kept the largest slabs and released around 20. They were fishing 7-9 ft deep in 15-17 FOW and 95% of the females caught had already spawned (I fished Washington last week and noticed the same thing there). It was a good trip and David's wife enjoyed getting tuned up to the spider rig setup (David said she wasn't missing very many). The last time those two went to Darbonne was three weeks ago when they fished below the dam and caught 75+. For a husband/wife team activity I don't think it could get any better!!