Full moon crappie.

Gary Fomby, aka Biofisher decided to play hooky today instead of attending meetings for the schools. Grin. I’m so glad that he did. We had a foggy morning start, but it turned out very nice. He told me at the beginning that this was going to be a double limit day. It was and more as we landed 40 keepers and we conservatively estimated 3 shorts for every keeper that we had. We both took home a limit.

Lake level is 679.82 at this precise moment which is just under 2 feet below summer level. Current speed today was 13,019 cfs while we were fishing from 7:30 until 11:30. Water surface temp was 72.3 degrees. The fish were pretty active even if many of the bites were very subtle. Thank goodness for line watching and Hi-Vis Suffix elite 4 lb test line.

Color really didn’t matter today as we caught fish on 4 different colors of panfish assassins, 1.5” Tiny Shads and a Garlic Chartreuse tail light. We mostly fished 1/32 oz jigs in the creek, but had to go to 1/16 oz jigs for a brief stop in the river where the current was moving and the north wind blowing as well, but we caught 10 more keepers on that spot. This may be where I will start the Forgotten Child crappie tournament this Saturday.

The moon will be waning by Saturday and each day the bite will get tougher, but I think that I can catch 7 fish, but don’t have a clue if they will be big enough to make any difference. It doesn’t matter to me. This tx is all about the kids.