Mark Twain before the big rain

Fished yesterday from 4-7pm out of SouthFork. Crappie were in 2-4 foot of water right off any pea gravel bank we could find. Scattered one here, one there, but got 11 nice ones (10-12 in). Lost several others. Threw back 15 smaller ones.

Water was pretty dingy everywhere with maybe 10" visibility. 60 degree water, so early stages of spawn.

Decided that we better get up there before the big rains hit and it floods out.

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Originally Posted by FilletMaster

Fished yesterday from 4-7pm out of SouthFork. Crappie were in 2-4 foot of water right off any pea gravel bank we could find. Scattered one here, one there, but got 11 nice ones (10-12 in). Lost several others. Threw back 15 smaller ones.

Water was pretty dingy everywhere with maybe 10" visibility. 60 degree water, so early stages of spawn.

Decided that we better get up there before the big rains hit and it floods out.

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Pardon my repeat pics. I think I finally figured out how to post.

Thanks for the post and pics. Nice catch.

Great Job!!!

Nice work. Looks like Twain is projected to crest middle of next week at 618'...... barring any additional rainfall.

Gonna make for some good fishing if you can find them!

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Nice job

Ouch 623' on 5/4

They will drop the lake eventually and there will be LOTS of crappie beds on dry ground. The Corps has to drop it after so many days of not dropping it. I was just up there from Sat until today (5/3) and the fish shut down during the rise. We were lucky to get 4 fish a day with about 2X that many 5 inchers. Cold, windy, muddy, rising water makes for a bad use of vacation time.

Mississippi is flooded so it will be a little while before they start releasing a good amount of water hopefully.

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Originally Posted by TwainGang

They will drop the lake eventually and there will be LOTS of crappie beds on dry ground. The Corps has to drop it after so many days of not dropping it. I was just up there from Sat until today (5/3) and the fish shut down during the rise. We were lucky to get 4 fish a day with about 2X that many 5 inchers. Cold, windy, muddy, rising water makes for a bad use of vacation time.

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Sorry it wasn't a good trip but mother nature is a caprice female thus are best laid plans often go arie. If they were all great trips them it would get boring.

Oh yeah. My bro is going into surgery for a rotator cuff surgery today, so this was his last trip before he has to be in a sling and in recovery. I told him the same thing- bad trips make the good trips that much sweeter. I almost stopped at a different lake on my way home, but I was beat by that time.

The corps has to run some water every 9 days.I will take a look in my log I wonder how many spawns have been screwed up since 1984.
Remember the lake is for flood control not recreation.

Starting generation tomorrow....