Feb. 2 Sardis Radio Tracking Report

Put in at Coontown Crossing and searched from there to the North and East (upriver) past Hurricane Creek and Wyatt's Crossing. Water temperature at Coontown was 41.8 degrees. Detected only one tagged fish in 11 feet of water just off the river channel among some timber. Water temperature there was 42.8 degrees. This fish had moved approximately 5.8 miles NE since its last detection on Jan. 27. So far, 20 of 21 detected crappie were found South and West (downriver) of the Coontown Crossing area.

Caleb

Couple of questions for you: Did you originally catch all of these these fish from one area and did you release them all in the same spot? Just trying to understand if they are all just moving around randomly or working their way back to where they were originally caught, or some of both.

I remember a few years back, Jerry Mckinnis would catch and release a couple of fish(LMB's) during some of the B.A.S.S. tourneys on ESPN and track them for a couple of days, they seemed to move around a ton and pretty randomly. They never really took that concept very far but the results they got were very different than what I would have expected. Also, these weren't fish brought to the scales and released, they were released right where he caught them and they still moved around constantly.

Thanks for sharing your info!

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Originally Posted by Release to the Grease...

Couple of questions for you: Did you originally catch all of these these fish from one area and did you release them all in the same spot? Just trying to understand if they are all just moving around randomly or working their way back to where they were originally caught, or some of both.

I remember a few years back, Jerry Mckinnis would catch and release a couple of fish(LMB's) during some of the B.A.S.S. tourneys on ESPN and track them for a couple of days, they seemed to move around a ton and pretty randomly. They never really took that concept very far but the results they got were very different than what I would have expected. Also, these weren't fish brought to the scales and released, they were released right where he caught them and they still moved around constantly.

Thanks for sharing your info!

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Twenty five white crappie were caught by tolling with invaluable assistance from Mr. John Woods on Dec. 18. Fish are 12-15 inches in length. Fish were tagged and released immediately after catching in open water off the Pats Bluff area in about 40 feet of water. Capture location and release location were the same. Fish appear to have spread out quite a bit from this release point; fish have been located from the dam/marina area all the way up near Hurricane Landing.

Caleb

Thanks for new report Caleb.

Thanks! I like fishing that area near Pat's Bluff too. I always want to think of them as relating to a piece of cover or structure and then moving up to feed and then back, or something kind of consistent like that. I was surprised by the results of that informal study I referred to earlier and it looks like yours is showing similar results, these little jokers are just pretty nomadic! I still think they relate to structure and cover, but I think there may be a different school on any given piece of cover/structure on any given day, I would bet that even the schools themselves are not static but more just whatever group of fish happen to congregate on a piece of structure on a given day.