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Yeah; when we had them on the stringer they were turning darker, that's only normal. I always look at the anal area and usually the more swollen and red is normally a female? Stink cleaned them and can reply to this for more accuracy. I've been fishing crappie on the big-E for 35 years and believe me you will catch them shallow LATE, in what the old timers refered to as the "False Spawn".
Went out again today. Decided to hit around I-40 bridge and gentry creek area. Fished with the go to bait agian 1/8 red head road runner, pumpkin/chartruese tripple ripple. Well all these were caught out of an area of about 20 yards. Could not find any other fish any where. Fished from 1pm to 5pm.
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Nice mess of crappie, CJ. Thanks for sharing the picture.
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Thanks for the report.
We fished today and had 62 keepers. It was a nice day not much wind so that allowed us to fish anywhere we wanted. We spider-rigged every point we could find next to a channel. Fished 14 points all day long and caught fish on everyone of them, the pattern on the point varied a little. We either had to be fishing 3-4ft deep or 5-6 moving in a zig zaging. Most of the big fish bites would happen when the baits started or stopped.The fish were real spread out today, we caught a few here and there. I think I am going to try some long-line trolling tommorrow. I will post a report on that technique. EB
Sissy and I fished yesterday morning and the bite was fast, we had a dozen or so and here came the rain. We headed home for lunch and watched the weather, then headed back out. Caught most of them on jigs @ 2' on floats and the rest on minnows @ 4' biggest was a 14" and we had a few that were eye hooked or swallowed hooks, ended up with 42. The lake is on a rise now and rip-rap seems to be holding them good right now.
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We still caught some black as coal males close to the bank with their bottom tail lobes worn off....looks like we have a good spawn this year for the next crop.:D
LR, thanks for the good report and sharing the pictures!! Nice mess of crappie!
We fished yesterday from 10:30-5:00 and had 70 keepers. 20-25 were over 12 inches long and the biggest was 14.5 inches. We spider-rigged every point we could find for the majority of the day. We fished 3-6ft deep in 5-10 FOW. Black and pink eaver tails with a big pink 3/16th crappie pro jig was the hot color. We also long-lined for about an hour at the end of the trip with black and pink strollers and caught a dozen or so with that technique. I was able to show a couple of people some different ways to catch crappie, especially in the post-spawn. the fish were thumping the baits all day long. So don't put your poles up after the spawn. Because all the fish do is EAT when they come off the beds! Good fishing! EB
Once the fog burned off and I got thing done around the house, I decided to slip off to Gentry Creek and see how things were going.
Got on the water a little after 3 p.m. and headed West. I was just looking around and using my Side Imaging to look at a few places that I was curious about.
Didn't find anything that really excited me so I headed to the I-40 bridge and started Spider Rigging 8 to 20 fow. Picked up a few dinks on the South East side.
Then moved in closer and started jigging water in the 4 to 8 foot range and I started getting bit by Channel Cats. I guess the water has warmed up enough to get them thinking about spawning. Caught 3 nice Channel Cats and 2 - 11 to 12" Crappie.
At one time I got hung up on something. I finally pulled the object loose to find that it was someone's fishing rod and reel! I had hooked the next to last eye on the rod. It was a cheap spincasting rod/reel combo, but I would have loved to heard the story of how it got there!
Headed back to the ramp and decided to try a cove where I'd caught some Crappie before. Couldn't find them in the shallows so I hit the two points at the mouth and picked up 4 good keepers including a 13 3/4". This fish was about 8 ft deep over 15 ft of water. Most others came fishing 6 to 8 ft down in 8 to 12 fow. The dinks were active and I caught them at about every depth.
The water temp ranged from 70 to 76. The coolest was along the rip rap at I-40. Go figure.
Ended up with 6 Crappie and 3 Channels for the afternoon.
Thats funny Don a couple years back I also caught a rod and reel off of 40 it was a bait caster and bass rod but was to far gone to be a real prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!