Thread: Lemon Today.

25 degrees when I got up at 6 am so waited till leaving the house at 8 and was on the water by 9:45 am but it had warmed up to 38 by then and ended up at a very nice 61 air temp by 4 pm. Very muddy water as entire lake is pure mud, started out at 47 for water temp, light breeze, sunny high pressure system, and water ended up the warmest I could find was 52. Tried vertical jigging in a couple of spots, long lined jigs for a couple of hours while adjusting the depth finders and the new 360 and not one fish at all the depths I was seeing them on. When the water hit 50, I changed rods and went to crank baits and finally caught 2 pure white 8 and 10 inch crappie cranking along the edges of the creek channel in mid lake 12’ to 14’ deep in 16-18 ft of water. They just haven’t come up yet or hit the banks and neither had the bait balls as they were deep also. No action on top of the water anywhere either from birds or anything. 5 other boats on the water, even couple of them spider rigging with minnows not catching a thing as we chatted back and forth for a few hours as we would occassionally cross each other’s path. Good day to be out, and shake the bugs out of the electronics as the 360 and the 3 megas are ready to rock and working like a charm! Here’s a pic of of 8” fish on a PICO crankbait. Things will get better as the lakes stabilize eventually. Last rain dumped 1.7” and we have more coming Fri./Sat.

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