Author Topic: Lake Pleasent Crappie Report in the Republic (Read 1132 times)

Rocko · « **on:** February 16, 2011, 07:57 PM »

Who ever made that report about lots of crappie being caught at Lake pleasent in the Republic last week must have been blowing smoke! I fished Sat evening and Sunday morning and caught 1 white bass and 0 crappie. They were not active at all. The only fishingman on the lake was catching largemouths on live shad! The fishing was great, but the catching was terible....

Piscolli · « **Reply #1 on:** February 16, 2011, 08:55 PM »

The Republic has long been "cut and paste" reports when it comes to ourdoor sports. It is a worthless rag IMO.

That being said, maybe someone got into them. There are lots of guys that know that lake really well. You never know, but I wouldn't trust the Republic, dats fa sho.

Fishless · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2011, 05:29 AM »

buddy from g and f says he knows a guy that has been to pleasant 4 times over the last couple months and brought home over 200 crappie, found a couple trees were they were stacked up on, (can't be the river as it is closed) a mix bag of white and black crappie, now we just have to find those couple trees out of the 10,000 in the lake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wadefisherman · « **Reply #3 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:02 AM »

I've caught some pretty good crappie out of Pleasant, the trick is finding them.

PhishingPhreek · « **Reply #4 on:** February 17, 2011, 11:18 AM »

I have never caught a crappie on purpose at Lake Pleasant. I've either been trolling or night fishing for stripers. Seeing as how Pleasant is 20 minutes from my house, targeting crappie would be awesome!

Rocko · « **Reply #5 on:** February 17, 2011, 07:37 PM »

I searched two north coves as much as I could and found small schools of inactive crappie. Stagers were few and far between, mixed up with the white bass or near them. Maybe it was the large orange minnows that props plus sold me.... BBC's or John D's did nothing. I know crappie fishing can turn on and off like a switch. I thought for sure with that great weather last weekend that we would have a winter bite much better than that. Oh well... that's fishing

Rocko

Elefantdude · « **Reply #6 on:** January 16, 2012, 04:51 AM »

When shopping the finals days at Fisherman's Choice in the West valley (Going out of Business - 80% Off Sale) I was talking to a gentleman who went to all the way up Humbug and was slaying them in about 25 ft of water. This was during the last week of December. Just an FYI... He said he caught 45 crappie from 8am to Noon. Just the messenger here

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