Waited to hear from a buddy who was supposed to go with me this afternoon. He didn't call so I ended up sneaking off by myself. I got on the lake around 3 and decided to check out some ledges that I had not fished before. Ended up wasting a couple of hours of battery time for zero fish. I decided to check out my usual spots and picked up some yellows and something that broke me off before I could even turn it around. Also managed to get a 10-12 pound drum in the boat before it could break me off. A fish that heavy on a 14 foot rod and moving 1.7mph is a real trick.

I finally moved off into deeper water and found suspended fish. My 1st pass deep produced fish on 5 of my 8 rods at once. I managed to get 3 of them in the livewell with a couple of really nice ones, almost 2 pounds. I spent the rest of the afternoon in water up to 25 feet deep searching for fish suspended from 12-18 feet.

Around 6, I hit on a couple of spots that were stacked full of suspended fish. My trolling motor batteries were getting weak and I figured it was going to have to happen in 30 minutes or so or I would be paddling. In that 30 minutes I caught nice keepers on every pass and then had something happen I had never seen. I had 14 keepers in the livewell and managed to hook up on 6 of my 8 rods in one spot and luckily got every one of them in the boat. Chinese fire-drills had nothing on me. I had to reel the fish in, swing it over the side, lay the rod down with the flopping fish still hooked, and grab the next rod. I finished out my limit before the batteries totally died.

This is the 1st time I had been on the lake in a month. I didn't see another crappie fisherman in my area all afternoon. As has been the rule all this year, the crappie are liking the dark colors over the bright colors. Every keeper I had were white crappie with 4 over 1 1/2 pounds, close to 2. They are putting the feed on since the water is thick with minnow bait-balls.