...fishing fever

[Muskrat]

All these good fishing reports has got the Muskrat ready to get back on the water. I have a question ? I have a pontoon boat docked at Harrison Bay boat dock. I can always head up to the towers and fish for cats in deep water, but I was thinking about some crappie fishing also. I know with the water so low and being in a big bulky pontoon boat it's hard for me to get around the docks and in the shallow areas around the "flats" and so forth. Any ideas where I could fish in and around the Harrison Bay / Wolftever area maybe in a little deeper water and finding crappie right now ? Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. emoFish

Muskrat

 

[Liveliner]

Right there in your harbor you can find crappie around the big blue sailboat. Under the front of that boat and near the metal corner of the first slip. And off the front of the blue sailboat on a line about twenty feet toward the new fishing pier. The fish should be moving in to those waters by now. You should be able to fish in the Chester Frost Bay and just about anywhere else we are fishing. If you have a Trolling motor you can troll. If not, Drift in a mild breeze or anchor up in prime areas.

 

[japlata]

Hey Jeff, you have PM.

 

[Muskrat]

Thanks Liveliner.

M.

 

[fischnrod]

Ware branch is plenty deep enough to drift for crappie,and they r usually there this time of year. The flats in Harrisn bay also hold em. I thought pontoons ran fairly shallow,dont they?

 

[rsimms]

When the fish are "on", lots of folks catch crappie by just drifting across the Bay outside Wolftever Bridge. White maribou jigs tipped with a minnow... chunk 'em out just off the bottom and drift with the wind. Set up on a line that takes you from the north shore toward Island Cove Marina (or vice versa). Wolftever Bridge out you'll be in 25 feet of water or so but toward Isalnd Cove it'll get to 14-16 feet (or shallower closer to Patten Island). On a pontoon you should be able to put lots of rods out depending upon your drift angle. That's the way I caught my very first crappie about 40 years ago when a friend's dad took us out.