Under a float

[ctom]

I fished this morning and di well on crappies. My approach was super simple: find wood suspended in deeper water and toss a jig/plastic hanging under a float past it and work the jig back right next to the wood. Worked great and I had to clean 10 fish because of the technique's productiveness.

The wind was howling on the lake and boat control was a joke. I managed to last three hours and caught maybe 35 crappies in that time. The bigger hen fish were hanging pretty deep and I had to set the float at about 5 feet to get any of the big girls to hit but the males of about 11-12 inches sure liked a the jig dancing around at about 3 feet so that's where I did most of my fishing.

The fish have finally begun to show some interest in hitting with the water at around 54 degrees now. They haven't moved into the pre-spawn water yet but will by the end of this week I'm sure. Its nice getting on the water at 7 and having the first cast get smacked.  Wind or not, I had a fun time today.

[Blackhawk19]

I did the same thing yesterday, the wind had picked up so I anchored in 5' of water with my micro power pole and I had the end of the tree top in 10' of water marked with a buoy. I would cast out and let the jig and float drift over the tree top. Every time it past over it I got a bite, I ended up with 33 and had 3 that went 2 1/2lbs and one that if I had pulled on her tail just a little would have been 3lbs. I also had a great day and most of these fish had spawned and water temps here are 70°.

[ctom]

I gave the lake a shot again this morning but we had some fun weather here yesterday late in the afternoon/evening and it played heck with the water. I should have know things were going to be off when I got hit by a 12 inch crappie on my first cast.

I got to run thru a whole gamut of different baits and colors but noting wanted what I offered. I did bump into a pod of small sunfish that liked to hang on tails but I got tired of them real fast and moved on.

Got Thursday on the calendar again so maybe the weather will straighten out by then.

[ctom]

Well....its Thursday and if anything the weather has really done a number on the lake. In 5 hours of casting I got one bass. It was a dandy by anyone's measure, but t its still a bass. No crappies, no sunnies, no waldo.

The water had come up and a no-wake was in place on the lake so getting around was a royal pain. The water took on a bunch more color and then the temp of the water was down 5 degrees from Monday's readings in most all places we fished.