Weiss Lake Crappie 03/30-04-01

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Jack

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Had some folks cancel on a turkey hunt due to a family situation.

Decided to make a 3-day trip to Weiss Lake to add more crappie to the freezer!!!

Called up Ken, Carl, and ****, on some details about a nice house to rent for the weekend! They were IN!

We got to the lake house around 5:00 PM Thursday afternoon, launched the boats, tied them up on the dock, and then proceeded to cook up 40 lbs. of crawfish!!

We ate like KINGS the entire weekend!!emoHungry

The lake house and the "eatin" was the highlight of the trip!!!! The fish catching was not much!

Two boats, two men in each boat fished from daylight till dark, and then went back and night fished under lights until about midnight each night!

Total catch by day.........

Friday=12
Saturday=9
TOTAL=21

Just an AWFUL two days of fish catching! Pitiful!!

I am not an expert on fish/water quality issues.....BUT!!!

The water was almost as thick as mud with pollen!! Between the two boats we saw 9 (healthy looking, but dead?!?!) dead crappie floating on the water this weekend.

The depth finders would show depth, temp, and a FUZZY "gray zone" from top to bottom!! I think the water was so loaded with pollen the Humminbird was showing a GRAY zone?!?! The two boats, with a total of 4 graphs were showing the same weird pattern.

Water temps ranged from 68-70. Fished with jigs, minnows, kithcen sink, ect.....

Just could not find fish, that would bite!

Yet we did manage to catch enough to eat one night, just glad I had 2 dozen frog legs from my pond, or we may have went hungry!!
 
Man, 40 lbs. of Crawfish! Sounds like a good time even without the Crappie biting, and then Frog legs to boot. Great report, thanks.emoThumbsup
 
You would probably call me crazy, but the same thing happened to a friend of mine, and I, when we fished Weiss a couple of years back. I asked a guide friend of mine, Joe Greene, if his graph was reading the same, and he said yes. Come to find out, it was a mass exodus of predator fish and forage fish. The entire screens were black.

So, more than likely, it was another situation like that. The pollen was bad, though, even where I was fishing this weekend.

What areas of the lake did you fish?
 
John,

I am not a "master" of the Humminbird fish finder, but have seen/recognized unbelievable numbers of bait fish in Wolftever this past winter. The screen was black for about 3/4 of a mile, and the depth reading was just acting crazy! The dying shad were everywhere in the water.

What my FF was showing this past weekend was totally different from the huge schools of bait. It looked more like a TV screen that did not have a signal. Fuzzy 50% black screen, with a normal bottom pattern. Zero signs of predator fish following bait.

Fished the shallows around the Chattooga , Coosa, and Little Rivers.
 
I don't know then. I have seen it where it was the bait and the fish in the water, causing it to act weird. ;)

As long as ya caught a few of the slabs, that's all that matters. emoThumbsup
 
My Humminbirds both did that at Rocky Mtn on Saturday untill the wind got up pretty good. On certain parts of the lake it was worse than others. I just thought it was something wierd happening with the two trying to work together. Fishing was tougher this last weekend than it has been everywhere.

Cheez
 


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