Slow morning at Milford!

Bought 2 dozen minnows at BJ's 66 and was on the water before sunrise. Things were super slow this morning, I hit all of the usual piles and couldn't manage to catch anything but a couple of dink crappie and smb's. Tried shallow. deep and everything in between... it was slow!! Fishing buddy Dave suggested we go to the damn and try the area we caught them at a couple of years ago, second cast and bam a nice 13.5" crappie! A couple more casts and boom a 19" walleye totally ate my purple and white roadrunner!!! He added a nice 12" crappie and then they were done! cleaned the 2 crappie and the walleye to eat later this afternoon!:biggrin:biggrinAttachment 102382Attachment 102383

I seems the fishing the last week has really slowed on Clinton also. Nice walleye.

Zeepo

thanks for the report. seems to be slow ina lot of places today. still a nice fish or two

Nice background, starts getting crowded doesn't it :hatchet: I spent the day over there myself. I had a guy and his kids to take fishing, which was nice, and only a few hours of whiteys. It's funny when you teach somebody to fish that when your done and ready to clean them that they say they already know how to clean them, WHAT? OK, after finishing up I was free and headed out to find some crappie. And, I did just that. Those big white crappie were in 15'+/-, but I got into some blackies in 2'-5'. NICE, mess of fish, 2 piles. I was beat and iced them down, I'll get you some pics after church. :ThumbsUp

Nice morning! I fished hd yesterday mid morning and the bite was slow. White Jigs worked best size was above average, just not a lot of fish. Jigs are out fishing minnows and by the looks of the boats the causeway bridge bite has started. Water temp was 69.

It was slow at Melvern. One of the worst days I've had in 10 years there.
Spoke with fam members to fins out it was off at Perry. Fam member spoke w/ friend that does very well in many tourneys, (won the tourney last week at Perry in fact). He had the skunk cap on at Perry yesterday.

Like your "colors" though!:biggrin
We will be a lot "more succesfull" next Saturday afternoon:highfive
EMAW

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Way to tear them up Doc! :biggrin

MAN, do I love them blackies!!!!!!! They were nice-n-round with their medpaks still on 'em. I like my crappies overweight and insulin dependent, as my clan says. When you get back and have some time pm me, we can go hunt that 5# monster I've been searching for.

Doc, thanx alot I wasn't aware that Milford had a population of blacks, only place over this way I know of is Banner and Lake Shawnee, very impressive. DK

Alright Doc, when is the fish fry???? :biggrin

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Doc, thanx alot I wasn't aware that Milford had a population of blacks, only place over this way I know of is Banner and Lake Shawnee, very impressive. DK

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dkv, I stumbled on them. They were surfacing next to the bank, and since I've been watching them do the same thing at OSFL I moved up close to confirm it. I actually caught one while unhooking another, when I laid my rod down the jig was only inches in the water and one popped it. So, I tried holding the jig out from the boat and a few inches below the water. I never did get one doing that, but I must have missed a dozen. They were around some chunk rock with one side of my boat only a couple feet deep and the other about 5' deep. Them little boogers are lightning fast when they strike.

There are a few places there with blackies that I've found. I showed a guy one of them some years back and he won the crappie division over at Milford KS state tourney. I think he and Chatt partnered up the following year or two after that. Plenty of LMB in there as well. One thing though, 2X over there and both times the tell-tale hole on my motor has plugged up with zebras since the water level went down. I don't know if propwash from other boaters is doing it, which I suspect, or what.

Ozark88, I'll let you know about the fish-fry. It will be at the church, if I ever stop feeding the gulls and gobbling them blackies myself.

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dkv, I stumbled on them. They were surfacing next to the bank, and since I've been watching them do the same thing at OSFL I moved up close to confirm it. I actually caught one while unhooking another, when I laid my rod down the jig was only inches in the water and one popped it. So, I tried holding the jig out from the boat and a few inches below the water. I never did get one doing that, but I must have missed a dozen. They were around some chunk rock with one side of my boat only a couple feet deep and the other about 5' deep. Them little boogers are lightning fast when they strike.

There are a few places there with blackies that I've found. I showed a guy one of them some years back and he won the crappie division over at Milford KS state tourney. I think he and Chatt partnered up the following year or two after that. Plenty of LMB in there as well. One thing though, 2X over there and both times the tell-tale hole on my motor has plugged up with zebras since the water level went down. I don't know if propwash from other boaters is doing it, which I suspect, or what.

Ozark88, I'll let you know about the fish-fry. It will be at the church, if I ever stop feeding the gulls and gobbling them blackies myself.

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crappiedoc- Thanks for the tips on this pattern, I'll have to remember to look shallow next time I'm out this month. Heard multiple accounts over the years of people doing well on crappie fishing for them like they were in the spring spawn in October. Maybe I should make a trip up river and fish shallow...