Thread: Slow morning at Milford!

Alright Doc, when is the fish fry????

Originally Posted by crappiedoc

dkv, I stumbled on them. They were surfacing next to the bank, and since I've been watching them do the same thing at OSFL I moved up close to confirm it. I actually caught one while unhooking another, when I laid my rod down the jig was only inches in the water and one popped it. So, I tried holding the jig out from the boat and a few inches below the water. I never did get one doing that, but I must have missed a dozen. They were around some chunk rock with one side of my boat only a couple feet deep and the other about 5' deep. Them little boogers are lightning fast when they strike.

There are a few places there with blackies that I've found. I showed a guy one of them some years back and he won the crappie division over at Milford KS state tourney. I think he and Chatt partnered up the following year or two after that. Plenty of LMB in there as well. One thing though, 2X over there and both times the tell-tale hole on my motor has plugged up with zebras since the water level went down. I don't know if propwash from other boaters is doing it, which I suspect, or what.

Ozark88, I'll let you know about the fish-fry. It will be at the church, if I ever stop feeding the gulls and gobbling them blackies myself.

crappiedoc- Thanks for the tips on this pattern, I'll have to remember to look shallow next time I'm out this month. Heard multiple accounts over the years of people doing well on crappie fishing for them like they were in the spring spawn in October. Maybe I should make a trip up river and fish shallow...