Thread: Checking out side sloughs on Mississippi River

I use to love going over to New Boston and Keithsburg sauger and crappie fishing, haven't been back in years. Need to get the old gang together and do it again. Had one of our best days crappie fishing on the backwater when my buddy pulled up on island to scout out some duck hunting spots and me and other buddy sat on back of boat with some beer n minnows and proceeded to load a 5 gallon bucket with nice crappies off some fallen trees we tied up to. We never said a word to our other buddy when he came back from scouting ducks, showed him at landing and he was p o ...That'll teach him to go off scouting ducks when the crappies are biting....

Originally Posted by catchncrisco

I use to love going over to New Boston and Keithsburg sauger and crappie fishing, haven't been back in years. Need to get the old gang together and do it again. Had one of our best days crappie fishing on the backwater when my buddy pulled up on island to scout out some duck hunting spots and me and other buddy sat on back of boat with some beer n minnows and proceeded to load a 5 gallon bucket with nice crappies off some fallen trees we tied up to. We never said a word to our other buddy when he came back from scouting ducks, showed him at landing and he was p o ...That'll teach him to go off scouting ducks when the crappies are biting....

Now, that's funny about not telling your buddy until you got to the landing

Who the heck wants to eat a greasy duck when crappie are available? (It is fun shooting them, but too much work for this old, lazy fat boy these days.)

I posted in a different thread about my dad and I fishing up in a long slough on the MO river about 40 years ago and catching a boat-load of slab crappie.

I want to head to Rend soon, but I'm only a mile from the Miss and Ill rivers, so if I can zero-in on these local crappie I'd be in hog heaven!

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Who the heck wants to eat a greasy duck when crappie are available?
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So well said!