Got out yesterday after work with Alvin and Jack to chase some crappie. Got on the water around 5:30 with a nice storm brewing in the west. Hit a deep water dock and start catching fish right off but after about 30 minutes the storm chased us up river. Rode up about 1/2 mile and watched it come a flood back at the dock we were fishing. Could not ever see the dock, justa wall of white/grey rain. The storm kept moving toward us so we ran another 1/2 mile up river. </p>
Fished a deep water dock there and boated a few. After about 30 minutes I felt a cool breeze from the north. Turned to see another storm coming right at us with a wall of rain. The first storm had moved on so back down river we ran. </p>
We fished until dark and the last hour was WIDE open. We boated 87 crappie with 28 keepers and half of them came in the last hour off two docks. I got a really nice 14.25" TARP and had another one just under 13 inches. Got to see a Raccoon and a rainbow while fishing. </p>
Fish were very neutral the first 3 hours of the trip but once the storms moved off the last hour was on fire. We used 1/32 oz lead with anything with chartuse on it. Fish were anywhere from just under the surface (you would have a hit before you could flip the bail over) down to around 10-12 feet. We also got 9 bluegill, 4 white stripe that came off docks????, 2 very small largemouth and a channel cat. 103 fish boated in 4 hours. Not too bad. Main river water temp was around 80 degrees. We caught fish everywhere we went, from docks, bluffs, deep water banks, brush, laydowns, etc. Crappie seem tobe everywhere.</p>
Fished a deep water dock there and boated a few. After about 30 minutes I felt a cool breeze from the north. Turned to see another storm coming right at us with a wall of rain. The first storm had moved on so back down river we ran. </p>
We fished until dark and the last hour was WIDE open. We boated 87 crappie with 28 keepers and half of them came in the last hour off two docks. I got a really nice 14.25" TARP and had another one just under 13 inches. Got to see a Raccoon and a rainbow while fishing. </p>
Fish were very neutral the first 3 hours of the trip but once the storms moved off the last hour was on fire. We used 1/32 oz lead with anything with chartuse on it. Fish were anywhere from just under the surface (you would have a hit before you could flip the bail over) down to around 10-12 feet. We also got 9 bluegill, 4 white stripe that came off docks????, 2 very small largemouth and a channel cat. 103 fish boated in 4 hours. Not too bad. Main river water temp was around 80 degrees. We caught fish everywhere we went, from docks, bluffs, deep water banks, brush, laydowns, etc. Crappie seem tobe everywhere.</p>
