02-14-2013, 10:00 AM
Got out for a few hours today starting about daylight. It was cold for the first part of the day<br />but the sun finally came through and it warmed up for a couple hours &#39;till the clouds covered<br />the sun again. Water temp was warmer than the air :o Water was around 48* in most places.<br />Ended the day with 15 crappie, 1 golden shiner, and 1 lake perch. The keeper rate on the crappie<br />ran about 60% today and mostly in 15 FOW. Plenty of bait fish for them to fatten up on and<br />if this weather holds like it has been the crappie will go into the spawning season in very good<br />shape. Now if TVA will only keep the water level where the crappie like it we&#39;ll have a great spawn emoThumbsup <br />I was on the trailer by 2 pm and headed to refill with liquid gold, emoAngry <br />The river current was too strong to find any amount of crappie/bait fish so had to fish the sloughs emoTongue