Buds on and off Crappie.com are texting me pictures. As Bon Temps' posted our Crappie have started spawning, this will last for a couple of months if not longer which is good. The Pearl River is up, Blacks can spawn without much molestation except by the West Pearl River Rats. Those guys Carolina Rig big shiners on the bottom in the mouths of a Slew where the water from the swollen river is opening up from a narrow chute to a wider, spread out ditch mouth. The big Crappie pass along the opening into the flow to spawn in the flooded timber eating select Finfish like a impaled Shiner on the way in. You have to wade thru the Catfish when fishing that way but they like the Catfish too.
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Me, I'm eating a good Breakfast like this plate, fried Eggs, homemade Ham Fried Rice, Fried Smoke Pork Link Sausage, and Broiled buttered Einkorn Baguette slices. Really hangs with your jig pole - Crappie lifting arm thru the fishing trip. Sad side of this is no salt this time of year for me. Terrible times.
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Heading out of the Campground to the river here.
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I took this picture to show how low the water is out. You can see the waterline on the Bulkhead. My Tin boat almost washed sand up in the channel crossing into the main river.
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Out in what use to be 8-9ft of water in the main Jourdan river. Exploring yesterday checking all the deep holes that used to exist I found nothing but sand. The river has eroded enough sand into it to fill most of the holes and channel in widening in the process. Some spots that used to be deep I could run thru on a plane but had to use the Shallow Water setting on the engine on the way up sidescanning for new logs. The water was 50 degrees here but dropped as I worked further upriver.
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Heading back from exploring I stuck steel to better Crappie along with the ever present Shorts. Great way to spend a part of the day. BGBS in natural colors was what I was dropping, like Bon Temps said any color worked. Busy time at home so can't spend the whole day.
