Monday-Suffolk-134 crappie.

I had my 6th best day fishing for crappie numbers wise and went over 100 for the 10th time today. I was expecting to catch around 45 crappie but not 134. What can I say, the bite was on. 8 of my 10 spots that I tried today produced at least 8 crappie with only two of them not producing any. I caught them anywhere from 8' down to 20' down but most were caught 10' to 14' deep over brush in water anywhere from 15'-20' deep. No minnows were harmed today as I go with jigs only and I had luck casting Kalin's Money jig, BGBS in pearl, pearl/chartreuse, pearl/blue, pearl/pink, (see a pattern?) and a few on black/pink. I also had great luck with my two poles hanging over the side, one with a pearl/chartreuse wasshoppah tipped with a crappie nibble, and the other with a solid chartreuse wasshoppah also tipped with a crappie nibble. I could tell when my crappie nibble was gone as I would rarely get a bite. Average size was 9"-10" with only a few at 11" and maybe two at 12" including this guy.

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Even though there were no monsters it was a fun day of the water and the rain stayed away so I am a happy camper. Surface water temp was 80-84.

That sounds like a great day. I'm fairly new on here, never posted, but that sounded like such a good day I thought I would say way to go! I was on one of the Suffolk lakes on Sat and Mon and also got on 'em both days. Used minnows 6' down in 12' of water. I was happy with the couple of dozen I caught each day. Guess I still have a lot to learn!

Welcome aboard Waterfowler51. Nice catchin George.

Welcome fowler

Congrats on another great day.

Great Day, Tap! I'm happy ya quit killin all those minnows! LOL!! I've found I need to use minnows late winter/early spring, but the rest of the yr jigs are the way to go!

WTG George, a good day,if you get a chance one day ,try cutting a piece of a BRIGHT worm about the size of a nibble and try it,I tried it a few times with good success but I rarely use anything but just a stinger grub

Wow that's sooooo cool! We are in Virginia temporarily and really missing going crappie fishing. Good to see so many people on here are catching them this time of year.

Ginny

That is a lot of fish! A fish a minute for 2 hours and 18 min. or a fish every 2 min for 4.5 hours or a fish every 4 min for 9 hours. That is flat out slaying em'. They every give ya a break to eat?

3 -12" fish could take the $$ this time of year.

I fished from 6:55-4:30. To give you a better idea of when the bite was hottest I text my wife (for me since I am a stats freak) when I get a line in the water and then every 10 crappie caught and every crappie caught at 1lb or more. Here's the results.

06:55-fishing
07:32-10 took 37 minutes
09:12-20 took 100 minutes
10:43-30 took 91 minutes
10:57-40 took 14 minutes
11:18-50 took 21 minutes
11:53-60 took 35 minutes
12:30-70 took 37 minutes
01:35-80-took 65 minutes
01:58-90-took 23 minutes
02:24-100 took 26 minutes
02:34-110 took 10 minutes
03:22-120 took 48 minutes
04:00-130 took 38 minutes

Then it took me 30 minutes to catch the last 4 and I left. Also, I eat while I fish so I am fishing non stop when I am on the water.

Man this is nice to read. It's good to see someone is catching them right now. Haven't had much time recently, but I'll be on the water soon. Thanks for the post.