Thread: Green - 5/7/12

Thanks for the report. I see this last rain finally got Green to summer pool. If my fishing partner can swing it we may fish Wed or Thur.

Way to go hydraslab. Missed you at the slab fest.

Hey slabseeker, would have loved to make the slab fest, but it wasn't in the cards this year. Hopefully next year we can make it.

Originally Posted by hydraslab

Fished Green today from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Water temp was 79 degrees when we left. We fished up above Holmes Bend, the water had a good color. Had 41 keepers, probably 175 fish total. Caught some on minnows / slip bobber 6 ft deep in 16 ft of water. Caught a lot of the keepers on jigs around wood in 5 - 7 ft of water.

We caught all fish in one area the size of a small house today. Great day on the water!

Just out of curiosity .... how did you arrive at the conclusion to fish 6ft deep in 16ft of water ?? I understand the jigs around wood in 5-7fow, as that pattern was working at the Slabfeast. Were you trying to catch the females out staging in the deeper water, or was the 6' in 16fow discovered by accident, or was that a previously tried/true pattern ?? Were you fishing over brush in the 16fow, or just in the general area of the bedding keepers in the 5-7fow ??

If you don't want to announce the answers to every Tom, Dick, & Harry that trolls this site .... I'd appreciate a PM. I'm just trying to get a feel for how the Green River Lake Crappie progress thru their Spring sequence. I plan on making GRL a primary Crappie lake of mine, and my previous experiences there are decades old & on the other end of the lake, for the most part. Thanks for any help you can offer.

... cp