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I hadn’t been out fishing ALL YEAR so I went out Friday night for my first trip of 2024.
30 keeper crappie (over 10”) and 24 throw-back crappie (under 10”). Air temperature was 32 degrees and the water temperature was just under 41 degrees. All caught vertical jigging in brush and trees using my hand-tied jigs (no live bait).
3/32 #4 litewire on top and 1/16” on bottom.
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Awesome job, pretty jigs. Good to see you posting again. Hope you’re doing well.
Way to start off 2024. Congratulations and thanks for sharing with us
Sweet mess of fish!
Nice looking setup and fillets !
Nice stack of fillets
Cold water crappies are the best eating too! Thanks for the report.
We also have been on a strong Ohio crappie bite. Top three presentations have been an ice jig suspending under a bobber, a slip bobber rig with a tungsten ice jig tipped with a crappie nibbler, then a tiny jigging spoon. Once you find them the catching is very much red hot. We are strictly catch and release but that filet pile has my mouth watering!
Nice stack of fillets. Pretty jig too. Thank you for the ride along.
Hadn't been able to fish all year, funny stuff. On New year's eve I informed my wife that I was done for the year. Next day I grab a couple of rods and say I'm going fishing for a couple hours. She said I thought you were finished for the year. I simply said that was last year and now it's 2024 with a whole year in front of us. Got to start it off in the right direction. From the looks of that pile of fillets you are definitely starting in the right direction.
Ohio wow!. Nice catches. I was out at West Branch and Berlin in Northeast Ohio this past Sunday and all I caught was a big cut and knot on my forehead from a branch whacking me in the head as I was going through thick woods and brush trying to get to a spot where I normally can only get to by boat. I know I can catch crappie there but I can't get to the spot by walking.
Both reservoirs are down so low as we had to let water out all summer for the southern boys and the Mississippi so they could still get their river barge traffic moving with the drought that they had this past summer. Boat is put away for winter and all my shore spots are out of the water or too far to reach by shore.
Right now my home lake is 5' below winter pool.
CrappieDreamer and Shmang- Are you boat fishing or shore and what part of the state are you in? Great job!
Hopefully all this rain the south has been getting last week, today and the third one this weekend with put a dent in the Southern US drought.
Congrats. When and where is the fish fry?:dono:Rofl:Rofl:Rofl
Great catch and great to hear from you again.
I am in SW Ohio, Hamilton County. We are taking the kayak out. We get about an hour before the cold forces us off the water.
Wow! That’s a very nice haul there. Great job. That must have been one heck of a fun day on the water. How deep were they holding at that water temp?
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most were caught in 40-60FOW and 18-25 ft deep. I also caught a bunch in 15-20FOW around trees and brush.
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Originally Posted by CrappieDreamer
Ahhh, I figured you were either there or that other lake known for crappie in SW Ohio :peacesmile. I always stop there when I drive to Cincinnati to visit P&G for work. Reminds me of West Branch, my home lake in NEOhio. Most people don't catch squat in those two lakes but the crappie that are there are some great quality.
That’s a beautiful pile of groceries right there
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Very nice man!! Love it
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