Thread: Shellcrackers and more.5/13/19

I fished 9:30 until noon today and what I mainly started out to do was scout and pick out a couple of places for some crappie condos. I thought that I would check on an old Shellcracker bed first though and then spent most of the morning fishing for these panfish.

They loved my Sweet Tea with Lemon Itty Bitty Slab Slayers fished on a 1/48 oz brown jig head. 6 keepers in 8 casts will ruin a good scouting day. Grin.

After I caught my limit of crackers, I then went on to find a spot for a condo or two. While cracker fishing, I also caught a bass, and several Bluegills. I kept the biggest gill and released everything else.

As I was looking for a place to drop a bamboo hotel, I noticed a waypoint of a hotel that I put out years ago and decided to check it out. It had fish on it and all around it. I had to throw a crappie jig and caught a 13.25” Black crappie which I released. I haven’t fished this hotel for about 5 years, but I will quite regularly now. Grin Crappie were 15 feet deep. 71,000 cfs and 73 degree surface temp.