2 reports NE AR

Took my grandfather to Shirey Bay on Tues. We attempted to spider rig. Water looked great; it was a nice day, wind wasn't awful but we couldn't find or get any fish to hit. I was fishing blind bc his fishfinder wasn't working. There were 4 other boats in and we never saw anyone else catch a fish either.

Took my dad to Lake Poinsett on Wed. and we spider rigged for the fist time ever out of his boat. He just bought hi-techs from Grizzly Jig last week and man they are nice. It made fishing so much easier having good rod holders. We didn't really find any fish until the last 2 hrs of fishing. We had to motor to the upper end of the lake to get out of the wind a little and control the boat. Caught 8 in the last 1.5 hrs once we did. We caught fish in 16-30 fow but to my amazement they were not very deep. In fact, I don't think we would have caught any at all except my dad just lazily let a vertical jig set up hang off the back of the boat and it couldn't have been running more than 5-6 ft deep and that is the rod we caught our first 3 fish on. So, I switched a few rods to the hot color or something similar and shallowed up and we started getting bit. Then we had to leave! :banghead

We have never done well at Poinsett and we didn't kill em Wed. but we will be back. We both have the spider rig bug now. I am fairly certain we fished under the fish the first half of the trip. I would have never dreamed the fish would have been suspended that high in the water column in such deep water with 41 degree water? I guess I have a lot to learn. BTW, the hot jig was Midsouth Tackle Purple/Char w speckles.

Glad you found some.

Glad y'all found em and caught a few. Ol Nimrod will approve of the bait of choice lol.

Yeah I drove by shirey bay last week and it did look pretty good. I just have never really done that great there. Poinsett has got some crappie! They aint big but fun to catch. Glad you and your grandfather had a good trip! Im sure he loves it catching fish or not! :ThumbsUp

Your gonna love those Hi Techs especially if you got the extrems

They can surprise you. Sometimes I throw a rod out the back with a bobber to see if any are up in the water