02-01-2014, 10:00 AM
A crappie fishing trip for us from 11:45 until 2:30 Sunday. Sheets of ice on top of the water in places but the temperature wasn't bad. The wind really kicked up which made our fishing difficult as we were in the main lake. We fished hard but only managed 10 crappie and 9 of those were in the first hour of fishing. We found most of our fish at about 18 feet. We vertical fished 1/8 oz. jigs in various colors. Fishing really got slow and I had little boat control with the wind. We ducked in a slough around 2:30 to eat a sandwich and maybe think of a new plan. The best that we could come up with was to try again another day. We took a couple of pics and decided to let the crappie in the livewell go...their lucky day. emoFish