Thread: Lemon Today.

Launched at 8am water was 51.3 and wind was light. Started long lining my RR 1/8 oz jigs 0.4 to 0.9 and no luck where i normally have picked up crappies last year in 6 to 10' of water in the bays and down the weed lined areas of banks, and the the depth finders weren't showing absolutely anything so headed out into the lake to chase the creek channel. At 10:30 the wind kicked up out of the east and I was fighiing 1-3 whitecaps, and no boat control so moved up the lake where it shallows, and finally caught a couple of small crappie as I located them on the Helix Mega 9". Pics that I am posting of schools of crappies and baitfish are all near the channel of the creek as well as in the creek channel as I would peck away at each school making a pass and catchinng one here and one there as they were finicky as all get out and very light on the bite. At 12:30pm I though I would try crank baits so switched rods and loaded the cranks and trolled them from 1.2 to 1.5 mph and they would hit the cranks just like the jigs. Light as all get out. Best colors on the jigs ended up being a curly tail on a 1/8 Road Runner in color of half yellow/half white body with a chartruese tail dipped in slab sauce as nothiing else would work for me. I tried tubes injected with nibbles on Road Runners,,and no go as its my favorite way to long line a jig,,Tried vertical jigging them but the wind was against my boat control so that was out. Finally at 2:45, wind changed out of the north and bite completely shut down..I put the boat on the trailer at 4:15 and called it day. there was a few boats fishing the banks and docks with no luck. Fish just aren't on the bank yet and neither is the bait fish. The water temp ended up at 56.5 tho so its just a matter of time before the bait fish and the crappies leave the channel area as I couldn't locate any schools more than 50 yds or so from the channel and crappie are all around the bait balls. You would think with the water temp we have on the surface we have, so its got to still be pretty cold where they are at. I ended up catching 20 or so fish, and only 6 were over 10 to 12" so everything ended up released. The following screen shots of the Helix Mega 9 will show the schools of fish I was concentrating on and some of the fish were around good cover and structure,,but relutant to cooperate except for the few caught. I figure next weekend will turn on and has to be better with the warm temps we will have this week, along with the 40ish degree nites...hope so,,cause this is getting alittle old waiting on the fish to turn on and feed and move towards the shores. Just my 2 cents on the issues.




I could long line jigs and troll cranks, and if you didn't located the schools on the Mega 9, you just didn't catch anything. The Mega paid off today.




Colors on the cranks was mad cow and purple/chartreuse. The wavy down images of the bottom shows me bobbing like a yo yo..in the wind.