Thread: Meade Tuesday

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.



Mike