Spring crappie spot is hot, hot, hot
Been tied up with that dirty 4 letter word, work, for the past week and was afraid the ole hot spot had gone cold. Wrong! Made it back down to Barry County to fish a canal that, last week, produced a nice mess. This time we took along a flat bottom and a set of oars in case we had to go looking. I fished from the dock and my buddy went down the canal a bit. I had two 10" crappie in the bucket before he dropped anchor. We stayed for about 3 hours and ended with a 2 man limit of crappie with most being in the 10 to 11 range. Biggest was 12 1/2 and smallest was 9 1/2. Returned another 30 or more to the water. Shinner minnows 12" under a bobber and a 1/32 oz jig with a pink/ white tube under a bobber did all the damage. They wanted the jig "swimming" slowly so I was inching it along with a lift slowly, drop and reel, lift slowly, drop and reel, etc. No idea on water temp. If you have access to a canal connected to a crappie lake grab some minnows and a few jigs a get after them. It's starting to heat up!
