01-01-2010, 10:00 AM
The last crappie trip for me this year was with my good friend, Biofisher. It was great fishing with him again, but I didn't do a very good job of guiding or the fish did a poor job of biting today. The later is what I suspect. I called Hal just after he got off the lake and they had a day similiar to what we did, so we are blaming all the poor results on the fish. emoBig
<br /><br />Gary (Biofisher) and I got on the water around 10:00 AM and even though the wind was from the south, all our expectations of having a better day than yesterday&#39;s trip soon vanished as the crappie were in a foul or is it a fowl mood. They acted like chickens today instead of fish that wanted to play. We ended up with 12 crappie. Only one failed to measure and another one was just barely 10&quot; so it got tossed back to grow up. The others made it back home with Gary so that they could have a good crappie supper. What we lacked in quantity, we made up for with quality. 3 or 4 of those fish were thick, broad, wide 13 plus inches long. They put up a good fight in the 47 degree water. The water actually warmed up .3 from yesterday. South wind make that much of a difference???<br /><br />We used 1/32 oz jigs with panfish assassins, stubby butts in crystal shad and albino shad with chartreuse tail lights. The bg shads were a bust today. Lake level today was 676.35 at 10:00 and 676.22 at 1:00 pm. 94,000 cfs was the flowrate. The waves in the river were as big as any that I have ever rode across and it was an adventure both coming and going to the fishing grounds. <br /><br />I will tabulate my year&#39;s results and post them in the general section later on this afternoon.<br /><br /> emoBig emoGeezer
<br /><br />Gary (Biofisher) and I got on the water around 10:00 AM and even though the wind was from the south, all our expectations of having a better day than yesterday&#39;s trip soon vanished as the crappie were in a foul or is it a fowl mood. They acted like chickens today instead of fish that wanted to play. We ended up with 12 crappie. Only one failed to measure and another one was just barely 10&quot; so it got tossed back to grow up. The others made it back home with Gary so that they could have a good crappie supper. What we lacked in quantity, we made up for with quality. 3 or 4 of those fish were thick, broad, wide 13 plus inches long. They put up a good fight in the 47 degree water. The water actually warmed up .3 from yesterday. South wind make that much of a difference???<br /><br />We used 1/32 oz jigs with panfish assassins, stubby butts in crystal shad and albino shad with chartreuse tail lights. The bg shads were a bust today. Lake level today was 676.35 at 10:00 and 676.22 at 1:00 pm. 94,000 cfs was the flowrate. The waves in the river were as big as any that I have ever rode across and it was an adventure both coming and going to the fishing grounds. <br /><br />I will tabulate my year&#39;s results and post them in the general section later on this afternoon.<br /><br /> emoBig emoGeezer