Rend Lake 2/10/12

[fulldraw]

Well, with the snow falling pretty hard as I launched the boat around 7am, thoughts were going through my head as to whether this was a sane decision to be out on the water today...but what else was i to do besides sit out on the couch. The wind was pretty stiff out of the SW, so i made the run to the south end of the lake to seek some shelter from the wind and search for better water clarity than what I had found around Gun Creek. The water temp was hovvering around 40-42 degrees. I ended up doin some slow cruisin in search of shad balls on the down imaging... needless to say i found them in a cove and the crappie were mixed in around them. I fished off of a rip rap bank in 10-14 fow. The action was hot and we steadily caught crappie for four hours straight. We caught many 9-1/2 to 10-1/2 inchers, the biggest going right at 12 inches. We got the best on mo glo electric chicken and all chartuese colors, they outperformed standard tubes 3 or 4 fish to 1.

[Mean Green 2]

Good job.

[birdman]

Nicely done, pretty sure I launched the same time as you when I was down a couple weeks ago?? I was in a brown dodge with a blueish stratos.

[fulldraw]

I watched a guy next to me catching crappie on his homemade version of the alabama rig....I bought myself one last night at the St. Louis Boat show, I cant wait to give this crazy contraption a try!

Anyone know the rules about spider-riggin on Rend Lake?? Can I slow troll 3 rods per person as long as our names are on them?

[buck brush fishn guides]

ya u can 3 poles per person as long as your trolling good luck....

[kilnducks]

and as any other lake in illinois 2 hooks per pole

[kilnducks]

hummm sorry im wrong on this i guess if you bass fish and your fishing corps lake you can have 5 hooks on 1 pole! if im trolling or spider rigging i can only have 2 hook per pole i must be missing somthing here. i looked it up on idnr web site

[Kyle Schoenherr]

hummm sorry im wrong on this i guess if you bass fish and your fishing corps lake you can have 5 hooks on 1 pole! if im trolling or spider rigging i can only have 2 hook per pole i must be missing somthing here. i looked it up on idnr web site

That makes sense????