How Was The Crappie Fishing On The Day of Slabfeast 2012 ?

[Biggerbear]

Green River Lake Slabfeast 2012
How Was The Crappie Fishing On The Day of Slabfeast 2012 ?
Read about the food but not much about the fishing !

[CrappiePappy]

Water temps started out @ 64deg & rose to around 67deg (air temps reached the 80's, under partly cloudy skies)
Fish were scattered, with some staging - some suspended over deep water - some presumably trying to spawn or finish out the previously interrupted spawning.

I guesstimate we cooked around 25-30lbs of fillets, or more.

A 1-7 & a 1-10 were the biggest I remember hearing about ... but I think the majority of the fish caught were in the 10-11" range.

All 11 of the fish I caught were in the 10-11" range (w/maybe one or two exceptions) ... all were caught in ~6-8ft of water, around blowdowns on a cliff wall (main lake). All were males, best I remember .... and all kept fish were caught on minnows under a float @ 6ft deep. Many other fish were caught on jigs, but the winds made casting tough ... and I don't remember any (of our) keepers coming off jigs.

... cp

[Bigtom1]

We caught ours about 50 at 20 feet in 30 foot of water. Also caught some on a drop off where went from 14 to 30 foot of water. Tried several coves at 14 to 16 foot deep and had no luck. We did end up with 17 keepers 9 to 12 inches, females were still full of eggs, largest about 1 1/2 lbs was a male.