Sorry for not posting here lately, but I've been visiting the family and fishing over in the eastern direction. I fished 3 different lakes and found lots of crappie very willing to bite. The weather was hot, hot, hot. And there was very little breeze the days that I fished. I stopped by Peckerwood on Wed. morning as I was driving to West Memphis. Took me awhile to find 'em but I ended up with a respectable limit of 30 slabs by that afternoon. Minnows seemed to be the ticket.
Got back up Thurs. morning and fished at Horseshoe over in Crittenden co. Found fish from 2' deep out to 15' deep. I could only find small females in the deeper water (about 10' deep). I found some good females in one small school that was suspended at about 5' over 14' of water, but I lost 'em and couldn't find any more fish holding at that depth. But, I'm pretty sure that those females are suspending over that deeper water. Later in the morning, I found loads of males sittin' on beds in 3' of water. Some hit blk/chart jigs, but the majority hit minnows. You could just work along the outside bank and find some nice males. I did see some fish caught from under the piers, but not as many. With all the males (which I don't feel bad about keeping at Horseshoe because of all the dinks there already), I ended up with 43. I probably culled through 30 or so crappie. One funny thing from the day...I saw a dude hook up to about a 30lb drum sittin in shallow water. I looked over to see the whooper jump about 3' out of the water and break off...:rolleyes:
Friday, I decided that I'd had enough and needed to rest for a day. The entire time that I was in WM, I kept hearing good reports on Burnt Cane. So, Sat morning I decided to get up and go try it. I went about 6-7mi down the lake to the big bend on the north side. I found lots of good quality crappie about 3-7' deep over 5-11' of water. I found the majority liked blk/chat jig tipped with a shiner or rosie, but they also like blk/white and straight chat jigs tipped with minnows. I ended up with a very nice limit of 30 crappie by 1pm that afternoon. They did seem to be holding tight to cover, as I didn't catch fish until I started getting hung-up. Where you find one, you will probably find about 10 more. They were really full of energy...in fact I had a couple give themselves whiplash from running out at the surface 'till they didn't have any slack line left...:D I really like this lake as it reminds me of the stretch of little maumelle river that I fish here in Central AR. I can't wait to get back there for some more of that.
I guess that I'll rest up for a day or two and then get back at 'em here closer to home. It was a fun trip, and I caught lots of crappie. Out of the 3 days of fishing, I probably boated over 200 crappie and came home with 103 crappie. And rest assured, I cooked the gallon of fillets from Wed for all my family back home in West Memphis. I also have to cook some for my the ol' ladys folks. Then, I guess maybe sometime soon we'll have another get-together around here. So all in all, these fillets be eaten very soon.
So, y'all eastern arkies really need to get on out there and snatch you up some slabs. There very willing to bite on that side of the country...;) Allright, enough of that...on to the few pics that I captured.
The haul from my trip on Wed...(a few cats included but lots of nice cats released)
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A few of the bigger ones from Wed. Notice the sweat pouring off of me...
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A cooler full of 43 from Thursday...
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Some of the bigger ones from Thursday...
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A view of Burnt Cane on Saturday...
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