4-28-2012 Sat
6:00 PM – 7:45 PM
Weather:
E 9, overcast, 45˚, 30.17 rising
Water:
5.93 falling, 41.1 kcfs, 53 ˚, clear
Location:
Mississippi R. Black Deer’s
Caught:
Crappie (7) 6 – 12”, LMB 16”
Partners: myself

Comments:

It was Saturday and the weather was cold and windy, but hey it was Saturday, so I had to go fishing! I wanted to mix things up a little bit, so I decided to give crappies a try tonight. I thought I was really onto something when I dropped my line, baited with a minnow, next to a tree in the water and almost immediately pulled in a twelve inch crappie. Unfortunately, that was the only really nice fish I caught. The fish were very shallow, and one of the crappies had the definite tell-tale black coloration that they only get when they are spawning. All the fish were caught on minnows. I did try a piece of crawler for a little while, but I had no luck with it.

Observations:

The water temperature has stayed around that fifty degree mark for quite some time now.