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Fished around Onapa sunday afternoon only pulling in 5 dinks. I had some minnows left so I thought I would cross the road and try to catch a bass out of the Onapa lake. No bass but to my surprise I pulled in 23 10" + crappie, yes out of the Onapa lake. I have never caught a crappie out of that hole of water but had heard about people catching some out of it. It was game on the second the bait was in the water. Minnows and some BG baby shad in blue ice, I couldnt keep them in the water. The fish was in 4 FOW.

UGGGG!!!!! back to work darn it...........Ranger

Rustler, were they black crappie or white crappie?

My buddy called about Noon and wanted to go fishing, so we decided to meet at Gentry Creek at 2 p.m. The wind wasn't bad until we got on the water, and of course it picked up. banghead We hit the South East side of I-40 and fished in 4 to 10 ft of water. Fished about 3/4 of the way down and never picked up a fish. Then headed to Emerald Bay and fished it. Tried shallow as 1 ft and as deep as 10 ft. and picked up one here and one there. No real pattern. I even caught a male in about a foot of water on a blk/chrt beavertail under a cork.

My buddy did manage to catch one that would break the 2 lb mark and another that would get close along with a 3 lb Bass. Some people are just hot on some days!! As it was getting late and the wind still wanted to blow, we headed in but stopped at the ODWC attractor in the small bay across from Gentry Creek. Picked up a nice 12 incher at the mouth but that was all. Ended the day with 8 nice Crappie and 2 nice Bass. The favorite bait of the day was blk/pink beavertails.

Kinda disappointed we didn't find them heavy on the banks like we thought they would be. I think the front that moved through last night/this morning had something to do with the fish not wanting to bite well. Water temp was 74 to 76 just about everywhere we went. Also the water was pretty muddy (big shock for Gentry Creek huh? :yikes)

Went to a friends dock at arrowhead yesterday.brought home 24 that were all over a pound.one was over two pounds and my wife lost one that i bet would have been close to lake record.she got it to top and i thought it was a bass at first,but it wasnt.she was sick when it broke her line.most of our fish were caught on minnows.they were scattered for 1ft to 20ft of water.the ones i caught on bank were all males

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Originally Posted by Winger

Rustler, were they black crappie or white crappie?

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They was black, but I wasnt sure if they was so dark because of the clear water or if they are actually black crappie. I will be headed back out there first chance I get and look at them a little closer.

I have been float tube fishing the banks all around the lake for 2 wks. and most of the fish that I have caught have been in
at least 2.5 ft. of water, haven't caught that many either, first year to crappie fish, still learning!
Fish were caught on red/char tubes and blk/char tubes. I noticed while wading the shoreline that
in places there were beds where fish had spawned, bass, carp, gar, I don't know, but they were
not crappie, there was no cover, just lots of beds on the bottom in waist deep water. Also noticed that
there were places along the bank that the water was much warmer than other places, however
the fish I caught were in the cooler water.

Went out yesterday evening for 3 hours and kept 15. We were fishing brushpiles in 6-12fow. We caught fish on every pile we fished. We would catch 2-3 good fish on each pile. Lots of little one though, it seems like the thiner brush held more fish. Also the brush towards the main channell held mpre fish as well! EB

EB do you have a theory on why we only pick up 2 or 3 fish per pile? I thought crappie were a schooling fish but they sure aren't acting like it this year, at least for me.

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Originally Posted by Redge

EB do you have a theory on why we only pick up 2 or 3 fish per pile? I thought crappie were a schooling fish but they sure aren't acting like it this year, at least for me.

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I remember our 1st get together one of our speakers, (a biologist I think?) spent time underwater observing crappie while he was scuba diving. He said a school of crappie would pass by occasionally to some collective area, perhaps a brush pile or dock, and stay for a while, then move along. The interesting thing he said was the school would have about the same amount of drop outs stay behind and the crappie that had been there, would move along with the school, thus keeping the number of "hang-arounders" about the same all the time.

I don't know if this is factual, but it makes sense to me.........sorta.