Mosquito Creek lake report

Fished this lake on Thursday 5/21/15 with my disabled neighbor. He doesn't get a chance to get out much so I offered to help him put some fillets in his freezer for a holiday fish fry. The bite started out on fire but slowed as the morning sun got higher in the sky. We scratched out two 30 fish limits of good size crappies and a handful of bluegills to go with them. Found the fish in shallower water starting out but had to move deeper as the morning went on. 8ft was best followed by 11ft around the stumpfields. Got all the fish on BG baby shads and strike king shadpoles. Mixed bag of black and whites were caught. the blacks were still shallow, the whites deeper. Longline trolled for them. Good time on the water and some nice fillets too.
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nice to have good neighbors, even better when they good fisherman. congrats on the tactics used, hope the fish fry went as well

Chaunc
Thanks for sharing the Report and Awesome helping a friend.

WTG

Nice mess of fish, great report.

just an update report. Fished the northend this morning until the threat of an ugly looking storm cut my day short. The crappie bite was tough but still good. Kept 20 and 5 big bluegills. Drifted in 7 to 12ft water using BG baby shads tightline. The bouy line area was packed with trollers.

Back at it again over the weekend. Church asked me to get them some fish for their fishfry later this month. hopefully I put enough away for them. Pics from Saturday and sunday.
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I'm still getting them relatively shallow. 9 to 11ft drifting stumpfields. BG baby shads produced all these this weekend.

Nice mess of fish. I'm having a hard time getting away from the (crappie) nursery.
If it doesn't get any better I may have to take up golf...

what is your drifting set up?

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Originally Posted by Nightprowler

what is your drifting set up?

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8lb test clear line with 1/2 oz barrel sinker threaded on the line and an eighth oz jighead 18" below. May go bigger or smaller depending on the wind.

Do you use a drift sock?

crappie maxx get off the main lake its a nursery right now fish r in brush not stumps

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Originally Posted by crappiemax

Do you use a drift sock?

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No. My boat is so heavy, it drifts slower than anyone around me. Strange but true.

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Originally Posted by Tbone72

crappie maxx get off the main lake its a nursery right now fish r in brush not stumps

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I know it's still a few weeks early to be out there.
We moved last Friday and got a few decent fish but we could only fish mid day and I would have bet we would have done better if we could have stayed a little later.

I'm still fishing the same general area and the fish are still there. Picked up 25 keepers in 4 hours on Sunday.
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Another nice haul. Good Job!

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Herb

After a couple less productive trips last week, I finally found some willing to bite. Hang glided over brush and stumps in water from 7 to 11ft and me and my buddy picked up 36 keeper crappies with a lot of them weighing close to a pound each. Added 4 big gills for a total of 40 keepers for the day. Caught most on BG baby shads and some on triple tails. On the water at 7:30 and off at 12. Started getting pretty hot and we figured we had plenty so got out of there. My buddy kept all the fish for a family fry. I'll get mine later this week, I hope.

Nice repot Ken. We're starting to get a few decent ones down here again at EF. You got to weed though the little ones still but we're also seeing some up near the 12" mark too.

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