05-04-2015, 09:00 AM
A crappie fishing trip in the pontoon Sunday with a late start around 12:30. Boats everywhere ! We checked to see if the crappie were showing up at some of our favorite post spawn spots... and they weren&#39;t. We went back to a good &#39;ol reliable spot lately...and they were ! We put a lot of big crappie in the boat and we&#39;re still catching quite a few &quot;very&quot; dark male crappie. Some nice 12.5 - 13 inch crappie with good weight. We caught around 20 crappie and all but one was an &quot;easy&quot; keeper. We&#39;ve been adding some minnows to our jig arsenal the last couple of trips. Most of the fish were in 10 feet but caught a few deeper in and around brushpiles and on a point. I kept 5 for dinner. emoHungry emoTongue <br /><br />Deb lost a near 5-pound bass a foot from the net when her 4-pound test line touched a rail on the pontoon. Just the extra tension against the line snapped it. We couldn&#39;t believe it. She was really depressed about it but she started catching some big crappie and that got her mind off of it for awhile. We catch a lot of fish in the pontoon but we lose a few also. That&#39;s fishin&#39; I guess...