WHEELER SLABS

I have not got a chance to go fish since back around the 1st week of December due to work and weather. I did manage to go this past Wednesday for a little while. I put in at the boat harbor and headed to the flats for some trollin. I started at the mouth of the creek I was fishin and started catchin some stripe 2 to 3 lbs, and even run across some of those healthy GREEN CARP perty decent size on them also. Finally ran across a few crappie in the next 100 yard, and thought the bite was going to be slow. I trolled through an area that I have never fished and the bite was on. For the next hour I caught 17 In a perty small area with several pigs in the 2.5lb range. Then the stripe moved in so I moved on. Ended the day with 23 and quite a few that never made it to the boat lol. Fish were caught in 2 to 3 feet of water, and they hit bobby garlands and hot grubs. Water temp got up to 47 degrees.

Sounds like a good trip. Good report SLABHOG.

Way to stay with them till you found them. Great report.

Wow!!! Was they staging 2-3 feet or actual water depth 2-3??
That's very good day!

were you trolling floats in 2 to 3 feet of water? Seems like the jigs would stay on the bottom trolling that shallow?

i kayaked in 2-3' today for 4 hours and no luck. spider rigged 6 jigs. just about 10 drum averaging about 12lbs. I was at west dyke.

Congrats. I caught three in no less than 3ft of water today on flint.

I was at first trollin the channel ledges around the stump flat and not doing very good, water depth I was trying to stay around was 3 to 5 ft. The place that I found the active crappie the water at the deepest was 3 foot. Crappieseeker yes I was trollin with floats and was only fishing below them 1 to 1.5 feet deep so they wouldn't drag the bottom. One thing I have learned over the years of fishing wheeler is no matter how cold it is if it warms up them big ol slabs will go extremely shallow. I cleaned them Thursday and several are showing eggs.

SLABHOG,

Great report, thanks for sharing. I love chasing them shallow and always seemed to find fish somewhere in under 6 feet of water, often at the 2 to 3 foot range. Wished work wasn't keeping me so busy this year.

Some of The ones I have caught here lately have eggs pretty heavy now too