I went crappie fishing

It has been almost a month since our last tournament and I've only been on the water once since that time. May just hasn't been a good month. From working many hours on multiple projects, to lack of sunlight, it has been downrite terrible in the fishing department.

When the sun does shine, I'm so far behind on farming work that I have to play all day catchup. It leaves little time to do much else.

Chris and I hit a local 30 acre lake out by our houses on Saturday morning. Met at the walk in site at 6:30 am and carried his 12 footer to the water.

We fished until about 9:15 and boated around 100 crappies between the two of us. Most of them were on the small side and went back to grow up. Chris did take home about 20 fish for the fryer. We caught fish on just about everything we threw at them. Charlie brewer sliders in lime green and a chartreuse tail, Big Bite 2 inch shad, Bobby Garland in CremeSickle...

From what I have read, it seems that this little lake is almost too small to have Crappie in it. The size of the lake just doesn't bode well for the numbers. As a result, the fish are running really small. There are preditors in the lake but it doesn't appear to be enough to put a dent in the ever growing population of crappies. Still fun to catch though!

We did something we seldom do...went camping on Memorial Day weekend. Daughter bought a "new to her" fifth wheel and had to have a mentor to help out.

We went up to Benton Lake in northern Newaygo Co. Smallish "no wake" lake. We caught lots of smaller gills, and a dozen crappie. Gills were on beds, crappie staging in 6-8 FOW.

Oh, and we went clamming too.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5600a33aea.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...fa964d611c.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...c3b20394ab.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...636320e254.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...98756a27b9.jpg

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glad to see you guys got a bit of fishing in.
don, those clams are an awesome catfish bait!!!!!!!!!

Looks fun. Good weather too.

Tournament pre fishing today. Caught a 13.5 incher on a husky jerk perch crankbait. Too bad it isn't a crappie tournament.

Great pics. That young one looks like the weekend was fun,fun,fun.

Is that a towel she is holding that Crappie with?

That's AWESOME, & Here I thought only my Wife did that.....:Rofl

We went Salmon fishing once, and she caught one, and we went to take a picture, I look, and she has on my brand new gloves........

Its one of my favorite pictures. :biggrin

Yup she's not one to touch em if she can help it.

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Looks like an awesome day had by all. Just as an fyi, Michigan has laws against the collection of freshwater clams and mollusks and their shells. Due to how quickly quagga mussels, Asian clams, and zebra mussels can push them out they are protected to preserve any healthy populations within michigan.
It is Unlawful To | Michigan Fishing Regulations – 2016 | eRegulations


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