11-07-2011, 10:00 AM
Put the Maddog Triton in the water at 7:40am(new time) from the Tyner Shuttle Ramp. Went checking the roadbeds in the Waconda Bay and Waconda Point areas as it was a crispsy clear cool morning with the water laid down to a mirror finish. Fished with BG albino shad, ghastly minnow and Marvin used a PA in albino with pepper, all colors produced but it was slow going for the most part...four or five fish and then it was time to move again. Did have one flurry of action about 10:00 on a deeper structure near the river channel which netted 8 good keepers but all they would take was a pearl/pearl BG...they would just bump and blow out the other colors. Water temps 60-61.5* and all fish caught on the jig with weighted float method at various depths depending on the structure fished. Quit fishing at noon with a total of 34 fish and only 22 keepers...BUT...all the 11-12 inch crappie are so thin you could hold them up and read the funny pages thru them!..kept an even dozen that were 12-13.5 inches to salvage Grandmommy her Friday Family Lunch...and am really concerned that the fish I cleaned today still have NO EGG production in their sacks whatsoever and the males dont have the thick fillet on them that I am accustomed to by this late in the year. Are the crappie really late coming in to fatten up this year? I hope they get going better by the end of the month cause we are supposed to have a colder than normal December, maybe as the surface water temps drop to 57-58* the specs will gather and be more abundant to my offerings...or else some of you dock-shooters are gonna have a greenhorn maddog beating and banging the underside of those docks scaring your good fish away...lol