02-08-2012, 10:00 AM
Hit the water at 11:30 am. Tried several different spots with no luck. I then<br />started checking places I haven&#39;t fished in a while. The bite picked up, big time.<br />Docks and blowdowns were hot, shallow and deep. I caught a million short fish,<br />along with some nice crappie. I was fishing a dock in 7 feet of water, using a 1/32 oz.<br />jig with Outlaw Special bodies, when I caught a nice 14.25 in.crappie. Not just any<br />crappie, but a blacknose. I think this is my first blacknose tarp. That has to be a hard<br />tarp to get on the Chick. North wind picked up, and the clouds moved in, making it<br />on the cool side. The crappie bite is picking up, bout time. I finished with 42 keeper crappie,<br />all released.