Crappie and Gills 4/23
Man it was windy today!
Fished for a couple hours with the trout magnets on my honey hole. Caught 11 crappie (4 keeper size) and 5 bluegill (2 keeper size) but all were released. They hit a black/chart and white/chart trout magnets fished without a float and slow steady retrieve no twitching. I anchored upstream from where I wanted to fish then with the aid of the wind could cast a mile past. A slow steady crank back resulted in several fish and more missed due to the wind putting a belly in the line.
It looks like the crappie will be plentiful there for some time to come. As of last year, I had never caught one below 10 inches. Then late last year caught a couple under, this year I have caught several 6-8" ones and now the attached really small one. Just hope the boom in population doesn't hurt the top end as there are 14-15" fish among them.
Fun times!!
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