Connor4501
12-24-2005, 11:36 PM
I really had the itch to go out with the warm weather so I got my minnows this afternoon and headed out to a small Livingston County lake right at dark...Right as I got set up, the rain started, not a downpour, but enough to get good and wet, thank God it was warm out there...
Set up shop in 21 feet of water 75 feet from from shore in a basin...The Vex was lighting up before I even put my first minnow down...Lots of blips coming thru between 5-18 feet down...Set one about 13 feet down, and then jigged the other wherever just above where I marked 'em...Obviously, the rod I jigged at the depths the fish were being marked was more productive. Picked up crappies anywhere from 5-15 feet down...Started at 6:00, most of the action was between 6:00-8:00...Made a move at 8:00, trying to get to the sandbar a couple hundred yards away. 2" of slush and 1" of ice certainly didn't pass the spud test so I set up in 16 feet about 50 yards from where I started. The Vex again lit up pretty good but not much suspended, got into some medium size gills and a few crappies all within 2 feet of the bottom...
In four hours in the rain: 19 crappies, smallest at 9" and the biggest at 12 1/2" and two 8" gills...Not to mention a very wet snowsuit...
BTW, where I fished, there was 1" of slush and 4" of solid ice, but certainly nothing close to that a little further out. Was out there by myself, staying on safe ice was top priority...
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and to all a crappie night... ;)
Set up shop in 21 feet of water 75 feet from from shore in a basin...The Vex was lighting up before I even put my first minnow down...Lots of blips coming thru between 5-18 feet down...Set one about 13 feet down, and then jigged the other wherever just above where I marked 'em...Obviously, the rod I jigged at the depths the fish were being marked was more productive. Picked up crappies anywhere from 5-15 feet down...Started at 6:00, most of the action was between 6:00-8:00...Made a move at 8:00, trying to get to the sandbar a couple hundred yards away. 2" of slush and 1" of ice certainly didn't pass the spud test so I set up in 16 feet about 50 yards from where I started. The Vex again lit up pretty good but not much suspended, got into some medium size gills and a few crappies all within 2 feet of the bottom...
In four hours in the rain: 19 crappies, smallest at 9" and the biggest at 12 1/2" and two 8" gills...Not to mention a very wet snowsuit...
BTW, where I fished, there was 1" of slush and 4" of solid ice, but certainly nothing close to that a little further out. Was out there by myself, staying on safe ice was top priority...
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all and to all a crappie night... ;)