Late report on the Cat. Got there and on the water at 9:15 and right off the bat, trolling diff. colors and sizes of jigs,,nailed a 13 incher, then turned around and hit the area again and nailed another, and then it poured. Rained 3 more times that morning before clearing finally about noonish. Off and on all day till 3:30pm, picked up a fish scattered till I had caught 22 crappies, 2 largemouth one at 2lbs, and 4 about a pound stripers. Tried bandits for over a hour with no results, changing colors half doz times. Changed colors on jigs and using diff style jigs at least 15 times. Only color I could get them to hit on was 1/8 oz RR's with flo green tubes injected with crappie nibbles. I couldn't get them to hit anything else but that jig. Speed of long lining was critical also. If I was moving slow,,no hits,,moving too fast,,no hits. You have to guess that one. Also. out of 22 crappies,,only one was a male and he was the smallest I kept as I kept only 7 total as they were all females loaded with eggs. Water temp was 68 and later that day with the sun finally out..up to 72 in a few spots. Eggs weren't totally ready for the spawn either. Its the reason I released the other females, and the 6 besides the male I kept were pretty hard hooked and probably wouldn't have made it. I personally think with the pressure on the Cat..we need to let them spawn and catch them later. Only other than a small dink I released, the male being 10 3/4", these were nice sized females to 13 inches I had caught long lining.
