*Real* Crappie Fishing Report 3/26/10

[Blue_Runner]

My Yukon is in the shop so Fly picked me up yesterday evening and off we went to my lake lot to fish on my pier.

Picked up 2 dozen minnows on the way. The game plan was to fish 2 ways - jig with artificial and also minnows under a bobber. The first half of the evening I put on a clinic - outfishing Flyfishin 12 to 0 with artificial only!! Toward the end Fly mounted a comeback and nearly caught me with 10 crappie - and the big fish award. Don't get me wrong, we did not catch any big fish, but Fly caught the biggest one at maybe 1/2 lb. Still a bit early for the big mammas.

I caught about 10 or so small bream as well on my jig and Fly added a few more, pushing our total early season catch to over 30 fish.

We were happy. Had one boat w/ 3 guys and a dog come by hitting all the docks with jigs and they said they hadn't even seen a crappie.

Right now the dogwood trees are showing buds. Soon they will bloom and it is always an indicator of when the big female crappies head to shallow water grass beds and brush piles full of roe. It will be game on in a week or two.