The weather here finally warmed up to the point where the crappies are coming in shallow. I arrived at the campground on one of the local reservoirs at around 3 PM. This campground has a cove area with boat slips where people park their boats overnight. There's a long jetty with an L shaped bend that separates the cove from the main reservoir.
Saw lots of small crappies in the cove, but none were biting. I moved out to the bend in the jetty and started casting into the canal. I set my chair down, casted out and sat in the chair. Right after my butt hit the chair, the bobber was underwater. Reeled in a 9" bull gill. He looked like a teacup saucer. That was the only bluegill I caught. Next cast was a crappie. So was the cast after that, and after that. For four hours I literally did not have one cast that did not result in either a bite or a fish. I stayed about 15 hours and caught well over 200 fish. The biggest ones were a little over 13". I still had some fillets in the freezer and didn't feel like cleaning fish, so I did C&R on most of them and gave the largest ones away.
No pictures this time, but the jig pattern on the right is the one that did the dirty deed. I only used one jig the entire time, and it held together through all those fish until I finally lost it to a snag just before I left. It's one of my own patterns. Feels great catching them on stuff you made yourself.
Saw lots of small crappies in the cove, but none were biting. I moved out to the bend in the jetty and started casting into the canal. I set my chair down, casted out and sat in the chair. Right after my butt hit the chair, the bobber was underwater. Reeled in a 9" bull gill. He looked like a teacup saucer. That was the only bluegill I caught. Next cast was a crappie. So was the cast after that, and after that. For four hours I literally did not have one cast that did not result in either a bite or a fish. I stayed about 15 hours and caught well over 200 fish. The biggest ones were a little over 13". I still had some fillets in the freezer and didn't feel like cleaning fish, so I did C&R on most of them and gave the largest ones away.
No pictures this time, but the jig pattern on the right is the one that did the dirty deed. I only used one jig the entire time, and it held together through all those fish until I finally lost it to a snag just before I left. It's one of my own patterns. Feels great catching them on stuff you made yourself.
