03-09-2012, 10:00 AM
Went to Watts Bar today for the first time in a few years. It took awhile but, I found a couple trees in 10&#39; of water that were loaded with White Crappie. I don&#39;t know how many I caught but, it started to get boring. The keeper rate was less than 10 percent. I brought home 6 keepers 11-12&quot; male keepers. I tried deeper and marked several fish but the wind was brutal. I tried a couple docks and was blown around quite a bit so I nixed that idea. The lure for the day was a larger 2&quot; panfish assassin that I am loving! It is in blue grass and I had it on a 1/16oz jig head for the wind it has a scent that they will really hold on to, and that is a great thing in the wind. <br /> I really had a ball today finding the fish on my new side scan marking them with the gps then putting a buoy out and wearing them out on several consecutive casts. I learned today to look more at &quot;shadows&quot; than actual fish over a brush pile. I also learned that I&#39;m about 10&#39; feet off of where I think the brush pile is and where it actually is, thank the lord for marker buoys. I talked to a TWRA Biologist and he said that there was a tremendous White Crappie spawn two years ago. So that explains all the 8-9&quot; inchers. Next few years should be awesome there.