Quote Originally Posted by CTom View Post
I made it out in the boat today Dale and did well on the crappies. I popped a nice white, 13.75". We may head to the Mississippi backwaters on Friday. With the cold front predicted the river will be more stable than the lake.

TB is on a tear.....got banned. lol Nice guys....
Nice fish. We don't see too many whites up here in the Cities, nearly every crappie we catch is a black, except in one lake where an occasional white shows up schooling with the blacks.

We got too successful in our fall back spot. Too visible in far too public a place. Now it is crowded even on weekdays and you can simply forget finding a spot of the weekends.

So we have been checking out the docks that the Park board put in a few weeks back. The sunnies and even some perch are starting to find them. Those with crappies should have them too in a pretty short order. Tonight we hit one surrounded by floating patches of snot. We couldn't even cast, only jig between the wads of floating Neptune puke. There was a pretty good afternoon bite of small perch which is encouraging, but the crappies either never put in a show (there was a toothcarp working the area for a while), and the sunnies did more tail swatting of the baits than biting, although they were visible all over the place. This particular place the crappies often take over when the perch call it an evening; so we kind of watch for them. Not tonight though, but we couldn't work it very well anyway.

We were supposed to get an additional couple of dock placements this spring. Now we hear there is a hold up. We were kinda looking forward to fishing them, but I guess it becomes another of those things to believe when you see them.

Let us know how you do on the backwaters. We have some slack water on the river here in and around the Cities that just might bear some attention, too.