El Dorado Lake March 3rd and 4th

Fished the river at El Dorado this weekend and we caught some nice size crappie. Saturdays crappie were 4 over 7 FOW in a big oak tree. Most were 12+ with the largest at 14 inches. Caught some blacks also. The wind was not very nice to us but we managed anyways. Kept 23 very nice fish.

Sunday we were back up the river. The water color went from muddy to stained. Most of our fish Sunday came out of fallen trees with tons of cover. Had to really pull them out fast so we didn't get hung up. The fish were very aggressive. 3 FOW and less was the key. Kept 21 fish on the day. Biggest was 14 1/2

Will post pictures tonight.

SWWEEETTTT!It's about that time.What was the water temp?Sounds like a good weekend.Congrat's

WTG . . . Sounds like they may be thinking about moving shallow.

Man that is sweet! Im ready for that time of year! Im gonna have to book a trip with you this year!

The water at Marion was 40-42 degrees sunday.

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Originally Posted by kingfish387

SWWEEETTTT!It's about that time.What was the water temp?Sounds like a good weekend.Congrat's

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57-60 on the top out of the wind.

That couldn't have been the water temp.

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Originally Posted by shane

57-60 on the top out of the wind.

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Here are some pictures.

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Thats what is was. Again backwater with full sun and no wind. Sunday it was very warm out of the wind. That was the max temp I seen about 4pm. Main river in the morning was 43-45 but we were fishing backwater areas. Way up the river and surface temp. Transducer is only a few inches off the surface. I have a very shallow boat for the river.

Wow, very hard to believe. No wonder they were so high up/shallow.

Great pics.Nice slabs

Awesome catches.
I was going to guess you took your flat bottom aluminum boat up there. :)
From you descriptions I have a pretty good idea where you were fishing. It's a long, slow, stump filled trip to get back there, where you'll definetly get high centered a time or two, but usually worth the trip.

Fished a few hours on El Dorado Saturday before I had to travel to KC to work at Bass Pro. Was able to boat some nice fish but the numbers were low. The bite was very soft to mostly weight only on the jigs. Very hard to detect in the strong Kansas winds.. Won't be back on the water for some time as I will be spending my time at the new Cabela's in Wichita.

Shane,
What days will you be working at Cabelas this week and what hours? Will you be there on Friday evening or Saturday morning?

Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Won't have much time for fishing so I will take a pole there and maybe catch some of their fish..

See you there!

bite was slow saturday Shane. but what about that 18inch you let get away. Rofl of course at least he got them that day i didnt

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Originally Posted by ragnar

bite was slow saturday Shane. but what about that 18inch you let get away. Rofl of course at least he got them that day i didnt

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The pressure....