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Fishing alone for crappie. 4/22/19
Having no one to fill my backseat on short noticed, I had my sweet wife put me in the water around 10:30 am or so and come back and get me at 4:30 pm. I really like fishing alone sometimes, especially when I didn’t know what the crappie are doing. I have been fishing tailwaters for Stripers and Walleyes for almost a month.
With the spawning season winding down, I wanted to scout off shore structures and see if the early spawners had returned to the deep water and they have. The bite was very slow and light. I think many of the fish were just bumping the lure with their mouths shut.
But I did manage to scratch out a limit and catch a keeper sized bass and one white bass. I probably caught as many short crappie as the keeper sized crappie. I took 14 home. I released two other keepers that were just barely 10” so I let them go to get bigger.
I tried two docks after noon and had one keeper and a short. Fish are stacking up on deep brush and my bamboo hotels. All fish came on 1/16 oz Stump Bugs and 4 different colors. Lemon/lime, Bluegrass, Blue Ice, and Black Chartreuse. I donated several jigs to brush, but that is why I buy them by the hundreds. I have to keep Curtis Hobbs busy. Grin.
Water temp was 71.9 at 4:30. Lots of current in the main river. Over 45,000 cfs.
