LCR with an old friend

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An old friend from Washington (state) and I wrapped up several days on Little Creek Reservoir yesterday.
The weather ranged from warm to cold, bluebird sky to steady rain, and slick calm to whitecaps,

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but the WT stayed at 65* plus/minus a couple of degrees throughout the period. Water clarity is excellent
and the grass line is out to 20' water in some places.

We fished corks with minnows, jigs, and both, but the most important thing seemed to stay close to the
grass line. At best, the crappie bite was "fair." Lots of small chain pickerel consumed our minnows, but nothing
large enough to be interesting.

Occasional ringers added to the days catch. During the past couple of weeks, I've averaged close to one
citation ringer (by length) per fishing day--usually no larger than this 12.5-incher.

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When we could find them, the crappie tended to be 9.5" or larger. Our best was my friend's first VA citation
crappie!

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It measured 15.5" but was well short of 2# (we released it without weighing.) He also scored a 12" YP--
not bad for 3 days of fishing.

It doesn't get much better than this--beautiful scenery everywhere,

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the best of company, and enough fish to make the days interesting!

Way to go, as always great pics!

looks/sounds like a great time richard

Good post.

Nice report, thanks!Dean

Good report and looks like a great time. I was wondering what happened to your reports, you slacked up there for awhile.

Good to see report from you again.

great pictures, does not get much better. I love fall!

Nice pics as always , I need to crappie fish again been messing with speckled trout and hunting with my son

That sure looks like a beautiful place to fish. Nice report.

GREAT PICS,fall/leaf change is probably my favorite time of year. love the colors and it signals the start of cold weather and schooling crappies. glad that your friend got a citation sized fish. a priceless memory to take home and cherish forever

Nice report pictures and fish. Glad to hear you got to go out and have some good times with old friends.

nice pictures.

Ditto to all of the above! A friend of mine reported seeing a guy in a boat like yours and wearing a cap like yours at LCR about 6 weeks ago, said he was really pulling them in! theysaid