Rough weekend on the blood river

[325WSM]

We got to wildcat ramp on friday about noon. Put the boat in and started spider rigging the old creek channel. Caught a 10 inch crappie on the first pole put in the water as soon as I set it in the rod holder. I thought 'game on'. much to my surprise that was the first of only 2 crappie we caught that day. It was about 72 and very overcast. Moved out to the flats towards the main lake, still nothing.

It rained that night and the temp dropped considerably. Saturday we went out at day break. 40 degrees and a strong north wind. Tried fishing everywhere and couldn't buy a crappie. We switched over to bass and did alright, but that wasn't at all what I was there for. We ended up packing up early and going home saturday night. a 5 hour drive to think about how we got our azz handed to us.

I'm curious if anyone else was catching crappie on the south end of the lake this weekend. Also curious how you guys did up north with the shindig fishing.

[pab1981]

I ground out 10 keepers friday morning at Blood River, fishing jigs down in the wood 16-23fow. Talked to a couple others that had 10-12 that morning, they pretty much quit biting about 9am. Was out of town rest of weekend so don't know about that. Probably saw you, what boat were you in?

[325WSM]

There were 2 of us in a cimmaron 16' white and grey boat with a 60 horse evinrude spider rigging off the front and back. I really expected the crappie to be more established in the river by now. Maybe they were and the bite was just that slow. That's the first time I have been down there for fall fishing. I thought it would be similar to what I experienced in March but not so.

I spoke with a guy I fished with down there a year ago and he told me to go out to the mouth of blood river and find some brush piles. I did that, but still no luck.