03-27-2017, 06:56 PM
Hmmmm. I fished there Friday and Saturday with very different results.
Arrived on Friday about 9:00 ish. Fished until about 4, caught about 40 crappie. That was just me. My friend also caught fish, but only about 1/2 as many.
Saturday I arrived at about 8:00ish. Fished until about 1:00. It was slower, no doubt, but still caught over 20, again, just my personal count. My 11 year old grand daughter fished about 1/2 the time and caught 6 without any help except for me cleaning up the occasional tangle.
Not sure what we'd be doing different, but we were using 2 jig setups (standard classic crappie jigs). Most of the fish were down close to 30 feet, but when you found a few that moved up to 10 or 20 feet they were fairly aggressive. We did not do much cast and reel stuff. Mainly fished straight down with a close eye on the sonar, just like we would if we were ice fishing.
I've actually been very pleased with our catch rates this year as it is very early for me to be catching crappie in the quantities we've been getting.
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Arrived on Friday about 9:00 ish. Fished until about 4, caught about 40 crappie. That was just me. My friend also caught fish, but only about 1/2 as many.
Saturday I arrived at about 8:00ish. Fished until about 1:00. It was slower, no doubt, but still caught over 20, again, just my personal count. My 11 year old grand daughter fished about 1/2 the time and caught 6 without any help except for me cleaning up the occasional tangle.
Not sure what we'd be doing different, but we were using 2 jig setups (standard classic crappie jigs). Most of the fish were down close to 30 feet, but when you found a few that moved up to 10 or 20 feet they were fairly aggressive. We did not do much cast and reel stuff. Mainly fished straight down with a close eye on the sonar, just like we would if we were ice fishing.
I've actually been very pleased with our catch rates this year as it is very early for me to be catching crappie in the quantities we've been getting.
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