Thread: Lake Higgins Report: Round Two

Fished Lake Higgins last week and caught a lot of small fish. Decided to try again yesterday and caught 105 crappie and a 4 lb 2 oz largemouth. Long line trolling with jigs. It took all of my 62 years of fishing experience to keep the largemouth from tangling all the lines. I fish by myself and pull six lines. The crappie were again mostly small but I did manage to catch a couple of 12 inch fish that weighed 3/4 lb. Kept six for dinner. Water temp 59 but warmed to 63 in the afternoon. I bought a counter earlier this year and this was the first time to break the 100 mark.

Started the day experimenting with larger jigs to see if I could get any bigger fish to bite. Pulled 3 rods with larger and 3 with regular size jigs. Never got a bite on the larger jigs while catching many on the regular size. Good day on the water.

Rick