28 Feb 2017: Are the Crappie Spawning Where You Fish?

Just putting feelers out to see how different our results are.

I fished a small local lake (190 acres) on Saturday till the wind ran me off. I looked for crappie in the shallow (3-8 feet) flats and along the bank in cover. I found small crappie in the flats- caught a bunch of them. Did not catch a fish over 10" though.

Fished Eufaula yesterday and didn't find the Crappie I shallow water. We set our baits between 8-10' and caught a lot suspended on breaks between deeper water and the banks in Barbour Creek.

Based on what I experienced this weekend, I would say it's close, but the spawn is not quite on yet.

Cleaned my a lotta fish with red streaks in eggs. Getting close

Agree, the blood line is thin here, the depth depends on the time of the day here, you know what I mean. Getting close, in the next two weeks should be on fire, if we can get some stable weather.

LOL I didn't catch any fish big enough to keep so I can't say what the roe looked like. The few 9-10" fish I did catch I set back.

Will say I could tell which were males though. There color was darker and very mottled.

Crappie being so sensitive to light I suppose a bright sun will send them a little deeper, under a dock, or the shady side of a creek. A cold snap will likely push them a little deeper and off staging areas and beds.

So much to consider when hunting crappie.

Surface water temp in Barbour Creek was right at 60 degrees near the weed beds I fished close a deep break. The water temp in Cheneyhatchee was 62.

Full moon on 10th

Hey John if you have time tune the tv to channel 18 between 0530 and 0700 and watch top of the morning with Charlie Platt. Alot of pictures are being posted of guys and gals alike tearing them up at Eufaula around thomas Mill Creek. One person in particular had said he and a friend had both caught limits on Friday, water was around 67 degrees. but went back yesterday in the same area and got 3. Water was reported at 60 degrees after the front pushed through. Myself went to opp Saturday armed with minnows, jigs, crickets, and bass tackle to just see what was there. Fished till 1400 and diddnt get a bite at all not even off crickets. Went to the river here at the house Sunday with my 4 year old and managed one bass and she got a shiner. Weather must have played a major role in the fish in are area big time this past weekend.

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Caught several on the river last weekend full to bursting with roe, but not on the bank. 6-8' deep in the channels.

Same thing here, there a week or two away if the weather holds.

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