West Point upriver 2-25-14

[Dustin Pate]

Jumped on the water for a short trip after work yesterday. Caught 20 in a little over an hour up near Franklin. Had a handful of nice slabs. Also had a mess of white bass and a couple small stripers. They all mix together this time of year in the river and you can catch all three on consecutive casts.

Mix of different colors all worked but Black/blue/chart 2" curly tails on 1/16 oz heads probably caught a few more. Fish were all holding on current seams.

Water temps were 53 in the main flow and found near 60 in a pocket off river. The big females were full of eggs and it won't be long before they head to the banks. They were actually in a nice staging area for the spawn.

[jigslinger]

Nice Dustin !

[nfriday68]

I do a fair amount of trout fly fishing - when you're looking for current seams for crappie is it a fairly similar process to looking for trout? That is, you fish slow and fast sides of seam as well as the eddy until you find the school? OR do the crappie tend to look for the break side (slow side) of the seam? Also, do you pitch upstream trying to anticipate the movement of your jig into the strike zone?

Fishing in the river looks cool and I like how different your approach is compared to all the pushing and pullin south of you.

[usafret99]

very nice, like the pics

[quickant]

nice

[bigfishheads]

Hey Dustin! How ya been. Good to see you are still hard at it!! Nice fish...ours are just starting.

[nwgod]

nice