Meade Tuesday

**Texas Pete** · 03-19-2013, 08:05 PM

After the drizzle and clouds left, I headed for Suffolk. Decided to try Meade as I haven't been there for a couple of weeks. The crappie were nowhere to be found (by me anyway). I went to every deep hole and couldn't get a sniff. Tried casting, tightlining near the bottom, jigs on floats at shallow, mid and deep. Moved to creek mouths, went up several creeks and even tried the backs. Wound up with 5 crappie (fair-sized at about 11-12 1/2"), some nice raccoon perch (biggest I've caught in awhile), couple pickerel, and a 7 1/2 lb bass. The bass was a blast on a 5 1/2' ultra-light with 4 lb test. She pretty much had her way with me for about 10 minutes.

Only thing I can think is the crappie have abandoned their winter hangouts and are in transitional waters preparing to spawn. I found one pretty big school of crappie, and only managed to entice one to bite. I tried for over an hour and could see them on the sonar, but they had lockjaw. Saw temperatures as high as 58 degrees and average was about 53 degrees.

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Mike

**Barnacle Bill** · 03-19-2013, 08:23 PM

Nice fish.

**Percidae_Papermouth** · 03-19-2013, 09:31 PM

Hmmm, crappie on the move. Thanks for the report.

**jim.b** · 03-20-2013, 04:41 AM

Where oh where did the crappie go. I spent 6 hours looking for them in the shallows last sunday with NO success! Last year at this time I was slaying the dink crappie at the back of b/m. I plan on finding them in the next couple of weeks. when I find them i'll let others know. I was suprised at your report. I thought you had them cornered. Still beats working. I do like the d/f pictures. Tight Lines JIM.B

**Idunno** · 03-20-2013, 06:53 AM

Good report, Mike. Thanks.

Id

**genec** · 03-20-2013, 08:03 AM

Good report and great SI pic,weather man said that this March is 10 degrees behind last years March ,so I guess that you will need to go by WT as time rather than day of month, don,t know because I still think they will move near this time even if water is cold. They had started to move in back of Rudds creek 3 weeks ago and been sick so don,t know now

**Kevin M** · 03-20-2013, 11:10 AM

Great report. Thanks for the update on WT. Oh yeah, nice bass.

**papermouth scaler** · 03-20-2013, 11:42 AM

Sounds like a decent day did your bass make citation?
Nice job anyway 4lb test yehaw

**Texas Pete** · 03-20-2013, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by papermouth scaler

Sounds like a decent day did your bass make citation?
Nice job anyway 4lb test yehaw

No. It actually weighed 7 lbs, 7 oz. on digital scale. I stopped applying for "citations" several years ago. I'd rather turn them loose than to take a chance on killing them by dragging them around (or keeping them in a livewell) all day and then putting them to the trauma of the weighing and measuring. Talked to a biologist about it years ago and the mortality in that case is high anyway. Not saying I'm a do-gooder, but unless I'm gonna' eat it anyway, I always let them go after taking a picture or two.
Along those lines, the people at the bait store (Cahoon/Meade) told me when I launched Tuesday that somebody over the weekend weighed a citation bass (over 9 lbs) and then tried to release it. DOA! Had those guys at the bait store all spooled up. Said the guy drug it around on a stringer all day, had no notion of eating it, just wanted the piece of paper.

Mike

**Percidae_Papermouth** · 03-20-2013, 12:03 PM

Citation by witness or photo by length is the route for catch and release, nothing wrong with eating big fish though... To each his own.

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