Saturday-North Landing River-16 crappie

Having had some luck with numbers of crappie in past summers on the North Landing River I decided to give it a try, especially since it's only 7 miles from my house to the boat ramp at West Neck. Pretty slow bite. My go to spot produced zero bites and then I picked up two around 11" (perhaps even the same crappie caught twice) in water around 10' deep up another creek arm with a Money Jig a few feet down. Found 11 on a submerged stump up one creek arm that has always been good to be but they were all small, add 3 more dinks and I ended up with 16. I ran over 30 miles in my Lund. Fished the mouths of Blackwater Creek, Albrights Creek, and Mill Dam Creek with no bites. Had my best luck up West Neck Creek. Caught crappie on the Money jig, Monkey Milk, Halo, and an orange/yellow paddle tail.

I should invest more time in this river and up the various creek arms, just hard to get excited to fish it when I have never heard of a 2lb crappie being caught on it. Over the years my biggest is around 1lb 4oz. I showed surface water temperature at 82 when I arrived at sunrise and it warmed up to 87 mid afternoon.

Nice to hear from you George. Miss seeing that red Lund on Northwest. But glad you are getting out. I have been in some of the creeks in Currituck trying to stay away from the turons at Bob's. Tulls Creek has been hot early June. Haven't been down to IT this year.

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Tap, I fished there every summer when I lived out that way. Never caught one over 1.4 lb. like you said. once and a while I'd find a nice batch of solid 1 lbers. We talked to some old timers who said that before they cut the canal tying the Lynhavenn River to West Neck it used to produce some real big ones. If you notice all the dead cypress up there it's from salt water intrusion. I think that runoff from all the development out that way is going to affect the water quality and fishing big time.

Good report. Keep it up. They gotta eat.