Finally made it back out to El Dorado on Saturday afternoon. Wife backed out at the last minute, so I just went out with my daughter. Main lake and boat ramp\dock was crazy, as expected, so we headed up way north to get away from all the boat traffic. Started dipping trees around 3:30pm and the second tree produced a dink, ~50 trees later and finally a keeper, ~50 trees more and another dink. Kept searching around and still nothing. Figured since they weren’t biting I would just explorer around. Found a good looking set of trees that I never fished before, so I started poking around them and was getting a couple taps. Finally around 6:45pm I got a good thump and pulled up a 15in crappie that was down about 6ft. I was pretty stoked and went right back to dipping the trees. Next tree I pulled up a 14in crappie, next tree a 11in. A couple tree later another 14, then a 13, then a 11, then a 12. Bite slowed up and I found a couple more keepers before dark. Released all the fish so I can catch them next time. Pink was the color of the day because that is the lure my daughter picked out for me. She also helped reel in a lot of the fish I hooked and even some I re-hooked on her pole. Glad I just stuck with it and grinned it out and didn’t jump around the lake since I wasn’t catching them right off the bat. Don’t know if minnows would of help me out early on when they weren’t feeding heavily, need to get out A LOT more to continue my research.
My four year old daughter surprisingly took a good picture of my fish.

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