As a rule I won't be found on this particular lake on a weekend day. My buddy got an early pass for this morning so he and I hit the water real early....we were to the fishing spot at 5:30 am, just as the sun started to lighten up the eastern horizon. We did a quick water temp check and found the surface at about 54 degrees and we had to go down about four feet to find the layer of cooler water. The crappies were laying right on top of that cool water in the warmer stuff. I set my cork at 3.5 feet and the first cast was hit immediately. As long as something purple with a chartreuse tail was on the jig the fish hit.

We caught only three short crappies today and they were at 9 1/2". Our "norm" today was between 11" and 12 ", nice fish but not huge fish. We each kept a half a dozen for the table tonight but caught significantly more fish than that. Total was well over 100 crappies. As long as we stayed along the primary break where the deep water started at about 7 feet we had fish to catch. Docks that extended out over deeper water were hot too as long as the jig was worked under a float and along the length of the dock from shallow to deep. The bright sun right off put those crappies under the decking looking for shade. Docks gave up about 75% of today's fish. Not many smallies today, but we did see more sunfish action...big sunfish too.

By 9 the wind ramped up to about gale force so we pulled it before the weekend idiots converged on the lake. We had the ramp to ourselves long enough to get the trailer backed down in the water and then 5 big rigs pulled in. Half were sucking beers while getting the boats ready to launch so I don't think we missed much by getting off the water early. Nice morningon the water while it lasted though.