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They're few and far between, but when you get a keeper ... it's HUGE :biggrin
Here's 4 of the 5 we caught this morning, before heading home :
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Those are 14-15" fish ... and yes, they are THAT THICK across the back.
Caught mostly females (black & white crappie), with runny eggs. However, not many males on the banks. :dono :scratchhead
All fish caught over/in fallen trees, in 10-20fow ... casting or "Vertical Casting" jigs.
Nice slabs CP!
Thanks, buddy .... hope you get some, too !! :ThumbsUpQuote:
Originally Posted by AndyMac
It has been a strange spring! Eggs look right, water temps are right, males "dressed for the party." However, I have caught very few near the bank. Is it coming, is it ending? I am a bit confused.....
Same deal as last year for me .... egg laden females out over 20-30fow and no males on the bank. :scratchhead And we were there a week earlier than this time, last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by ET Fish
Water temps are high, unless they nest deep. Depth finder was showing a "thermocline" of sorts at about 5ft ... so, the cooler water may have them nesting 8-10ft deep :dono (unless the rains cool the water down quite a bit & color the water up. We had nearly 3ft depth visibility in most of the places we fished. Bass were all over the banks, nesting in that 72-75deg water.
The males we caught (Black Crappie) were still sporting their tux's ... so I don't know if they were guarding nests or still waiting on the females. We caught Blacks/Whites out of the same trees, at approx. the same depths, so there may be some hybridization happening if the females aren't real picky :Rofl
They've gotten off "some" spawns a few years ago, because we did catch almost as many <10" fish as we did keepers. There was just a huge gap in their sizes :biggrin
Great report and nice catch.
Some nice fish on the bar no doubt.
U need to bring a few of them over to Ky Lake so someone can re-catch em.
Great catch.
Nice ,thats pretty much the same as we did ,we never caught 1 male
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We were down this past weekend. Ended up cleaning 21 before heading home Sunday morning. Fishing was rough to say the least. My theory is the abundance of shad. I've been down at Watts the past several years and have never seen that much shad in my life. The docks seemed to be boiling in the mornings and everywhere we went they were exploding out of the water. Again, just my theory to the difficult fishing. I had more luck throwing a minnow and float then anything else, although monkey milk (or some variation of it) seemed to be the jig color of choice that brought success. Every female was full of eggs and the sacks were firm. Caught a couple males this weekend, one with a tail bloody from beating a nest and one with a tail that looked like it was on the mend. I cleaned one Sunday morning in flurry and grabbed what i thought was a female judging by the belly only to be blown away by the abundance of shad in the gut. Weather was great on Friday, scattered storms on Saturday and beautiful weather Sunday morning. We've had better years and we've had worse years. It's always going to be a return trip for us. Love the lake because of views like the one above.
Did you net any shad to fish with? I've do it all the time with catfish and often thought I should with crappie.
I never have. Probably should have!Quote:
Originally Posted by Abu65