Had an incredible night with the crappie tonight. I went to a local lake and landed over 50. None were very big with the largest being about 10" but for a while, I was bringing in one every other cast with hits on every cast.
Jeff
Crappie
Had an incredible night with the crappie tonight. I went to a local lake and landed over 50. None were very big with the largest being about 10" but for a while, I was bringing in one every other cast with hits on every cast.
Jeff
What were you using? Crappie Candy? Clousers?
Jeff
Can't complain about that!!!!!!! Depending on the size limit might be time for folks to take a bunch home and give the others room to grow. They are mighty fine eatin.
Congrats
Fatman
Sounds like a heck of an outing! I'am with Fatman, keep some for the table and give the others some time to grow.
Thanks guys. There are plenty of meat fishermen at this lake. I love to eat crappie, I'm ust too darn lazy to clean a mess of them. Fortunately, this particular lake has no problem with an abundance of folks who help thin the herd.
The fly I was using is a very simple tie. In fact, it's not much of a fly at all but I catch a lot of fish with it.
Hook: 2X streamer size 6 to size 10 (I was using size 8 for the crappie)
Tail: Clump of white maribou with a few strands of crystal flash mixed in
Body: Silver tinsel wrapped up the hook shank
Head: red thread head (about 2 hook eyes)
it sinks slowly. Strip it in with a "twitching" type retrieve. It looks a lot like a minnow when fished this way.
That's it. It takes all of 5 minuts to tie this if I'm being really careful. For the most part, sloppy ones work better anyway.
Oh by the way, I caught 32 more last night.
Jeff
Hey Jeff
My invitation to the fish fry must be in the mail! 8T
Any ideas on what the water temp was? I was carp fishing yesterday with 8 pound test when the bull gills started to smash my carp fly. Someone didn't tell those gills that they shouldn't be bitting 8 pound test and that those carp flies were not designed for them. Not quite what I would have chosen for a tool but the 7 wt landed the gills just fine, took home 5 for supper. Water temp was 56 where I was, and I think that is still way early for temps for them.
I'll check the temp if I manage to get to the lake tonight. It should be in the low 60's though.
Jeff
In between and during the intermittent rain/thunderstorms this weekend, I got out and fly-fished for crappies, too. Fished a pond that I've caught hundreds of crappies from. The pond is only 5 years old, so the crappies top out about 9".
Imagine my surprise when this 13.5" crappie hit! I was using yellow boa yarn leeches, and a really small chartreuse/white craft fur Clouser Deep Minnow.
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
Nice going Dave. There's nothing wrong with a batch of crappies like that!
I think I'm a warmwater boy at heart even though I love the streams, standing on the bottom and playing the technical trout game. Guess I love them both but it's 55/45 for me in favor of (especially) "teeth"...then bass and panfish.
Nice going. Panfish are blast!
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