LOZ 5-7-15 MBO & STO41986 THANKS FOR THE TIP!!!!

Defiantly a rags to riches day for me at the LOZ. Launched at Coffman well before the butt crack of dawn and fished the 4mm and a Gravios creek, in for sure spawning coves but this is not a for sure kind of year. Caught a total of 1 crappie on a bed. Decided to slip cork some wells...notta. Spider rigged a major creek.....notta. It was 11 o'clock and I had one fish so I ate my Lunchable with the vanilla cookies and was gonna say screw it not my day. Then I was marking fish in 25 to 30 fow and remembered what MBO and STO41986 were saying about a crank bait bite. I tied on a flicker shad and trolled maybe 10 feet and whack. Threw it out again and whack. Tied up another and did the two pole stroll and absolutely unloaded on the crappie. Nothing big except one that went 14.5 inches, but a solid limit and plenty more for fun. My trolling motor ran out of juice and I left them biting. I fished about a 300 to 500 foot stretch in 25 to 30 fow and if shad showed up on the Garmin I knew a hit was coming. All females full of eggs except the one I caught on the bed which was spawned out.......strange spring for sure but I will take a crank bait bite, and good advice, anytime. Does this mean the night bite comes early this year??? hmmmmmmmmmm
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Atta boy! Glad I could help. That is what makes this site so freaking great...we all try and help everyone improve and catch a mess of crappie. Glad you did well.

Nice going!

If you read this site someone has already done some homework for you and it sure can help, then you can pay it forward again....gotta love it

Nice fish

I heard there was a bit of a trolling bite goin on over there as screwy as this spring has been I guess its time to dust off the bandits.....good work.

That's the way to adapt. Most people would have went home saying the fish were not biting. Congrats and nice pictures.

Great report. Gotta be flexible to catch these things dontcha? Glad you got into them. We'll see what these storms do this weekend.

Very nice!!! Great job

Way to stay with it. I'm going to have to say it was the vanilla cookies that was the turning point though. Way to do your homework too. Way too much knowledge and experience on this site to overlook it as a solid source and part of your "tackle" when you go out. Nice deomonstration of that.

Nice job on figuring them out! :cheers2

I've been wanting to try crankbaits. How fast were you trolling? Great report also.

I really dont know my bow graph doesnt have gps. just enough to get the crank thumping, I have a 12 volt 55lb trolling motor 5 speed and had it on level 3 or 4 against the wind. put it on rabbit to get the bait down faster.

Thanks!

Nice!

I have never tried a crank at loz! Good to hear a new way to catch a few. I was there the weekend of 4/24 and did ok. It was a different bite this year. We fished mainly in the gravois arm and only limited one day. It was windy as hell and they were just picking it up. Not the normal thump for this time of year! The water was rising and the temp would change 4 degrees both ways throughout the day! I think the wind really makes it hard to feel the bite when they aren't thumping that grub!

Way to go!...Good looking fish, and thanks for the great report!

Got some of them crankbaits they have not seen water yet:donohope to try it one of these days.