Thread: Here's a mixed bag for ya

Here's a few I caught at Ferdinand over the weekend. Caught about fifty bluegill with a few good redear and these two crappie mixed in. As many of you know, I'm a redear fanatic and take great pride in catching them. We caught a cooler full of hand sized bluegill, a few redear and these two crappie. I tried pretty hard for crappie using minnows but had no success, then caught these two by accident.

The crappie were caught on worms in about six foot of water, fishing about four feet deep. The gills/ears were caught using worms in shallow water too. Sunday was the best day, Friday night it poured down rain and I was wondering if we were going to make it. Cleared off and the boy, wife and I had a great weekend. I talked to two different CO's and they were extremely friendly, didn't even check me for my license or anything. They said the crappie bite was on fire at Tipsaw, Beaver Dam and Patoka. Redear aren't there yet, give it two to three weeks of warm weather and they'll be on fire too.