water temps

[murdok]

hi fellas, went yesterday afternoon to a private lake (90 acres) that my family owns most of the damn. the owner is a lifelong friend of mine. the place went basically unfished for about 15 years so you can imagine whats in there, bass, bass, and more bass all about 1/2 to 1lbs. however i know there are big crappie in there. if seen em come out but i have never figured em out. last year i put out about 20 structure pods in various places. when i got there yesterday i was shocked to find water temp was 69 degress and the lake was down 4 feet for the owner to do some work on the dam. i was just rigged with wacky worms yesterday but do yall think the crappie could be spawing despite it being February.

[jimmydee1]

Murdok...My 2 cents. I've caught bloody egg crappie from mid Feb thru Mid August. MANY variables to determine when they spawn. Some fish instinctively know not to spawn aggressively due to population of fish...or so I'm told. My advice...get after em every chance you get, take good notes, and give em heck.

[Donald@CrappieLogic]

Yes sir they will think it's time and start there thing but mother nature will push em in and out till late March early April I caught them in 2 foot of water on the bank yesterday water surface temp was 61 and they where moving in and out if I was you I would get after em now you can find em shallow and hammer em

[murdok]

Yes sir they will think it's time and start there thing but mother nature will push em in and out till late March early April I caught them in 2 foot of water on the bank yesterday water surface temp was 61 and they where moving in and out if I was you I would get after em now you can find em shallow and hammer em

thanks thats kinda my thoughts too. my best friends kid asked me to take him yesterday and thats the only place i could think of we could do some good and all he wanted to do was catch fish not hunt fish. we got on the water at 330 and caught 30 just couldn't believe the water temp. guess it was cause he took so much out of it. gonna hit em hard after work this week.

[Donald@CrappieLogic]

thanks thats kinda my thoughts too. my best friends kid asked me to take him yesterday and thats the only place i could think of we could do some good and all he wanted to do was catch fish not hunt fish. we got on the water at 330 and caught 30 just couldn't believe the water temp. guess it was cause he took so much out of it. gonna hit em hard after work this week.

Good Luck hope you wear em out

[jnebgud]

Nice