Fishing Forum

Hal was off today, his normal day off and we usually schedule a trip together to crappie fish. We got out at the crack of dawn and fished until 11:00 AM. We exceeded our best day ever by 14 fish. About 1/2 of them were keeper sized including some really big fat crappie, but we released them all today. We actually started fishing at 5:57 and by 9:00 we put our 100 crappie in the boat. The next 2 hours showed a dramatic slowdown in the bite. We ended up with 137 and most were caught on 1/16 oz, but on one particular dock, I used 1/32 oz and Hal used 1/16 oz and we both caught fish. I might have caught a few more than he, but not all that many more.<br /><br />We also caught 3 white bass, 1 yellow bass, 1 spotted bass, and 2 sunfish. One little sunfish had the red earflaps, but it was not a shellcracker. Looked more like a tiny rock bass, but I don't know for sure what it is. The count varied from 8 to 15 and we were in 20-35 feet of water most of the time. We fished a couple of docks and some vertical structure. We saw Biofisher and his son, Gabriel on a bluff and they were bass fishing. He said they had caught about 15,16 bass. Willow flies hatched out in bunches this AM and the fish were really turned on. emoBig emoGeezer<br /><br />I just went back and checked the flow rate and it was around 26,000 cfs when we started and at 9:00 it showed the flow at 44,000 cfs. That might explain why the bite slowed down. It probably repositioned the fish and we didn't adapt well.