3/14
On the water by 8:30am, crappie in the boat at 8:32am, 10" female released back for her first successful spawn attempt. Caught 4' down in 23 fow, trolling 1.0 mph.
Fished hard for 5 hours totaling 5 fish.
3/15
On the water by 8:00am. Several immediate bites, missed 2 in 10 minutes, 1 hit hard as I felt it pull out of her mouth and 1 wanted to take it slow and I couldn't get it to commit. Nailed the 3rd offer though and boated a nice crappie after about 15 minutes on the water.
Proceeded to catch 10 keeper crappie spread out over the course of 4 hours.
The bite was at its best right before we left at 12-noon. We did hit 2 schools of feeding crappie which was nice as it hasn't happen in a while. We landed 2 fish out of one school with a third pole buried while we were working the others. Then later we landed 1 fish with 1 fish LDR, and again a third pole buried we just couldn't get to.
The pattern? There was no pattern, except running your bait shallow (6 feet was too deep). We covered every area in 17-25 fow and caught fish in every area we covered. Chartreuse was the ticket as for color. Caught a few on bare roadrunners, one on JDG, one on pink/chart, but most on the usual BBC.
Thank you VERY much MeNRats for having Drake and I tag along with you and Allie and thanks Piscolli for lining up and taking care of the camp sites. Congratulations to the young man Kaleb on Piscolli's boat who managed to boat his first crappie at the end of day 2, after lots of perseverance. Great time had by all.
