09/26/2007

Water Temperature North End – 78 Steady
Middle South Main Channel – 78 Steady
Water Level = 26 Inches Below Normal pool and Dropping
Water Clarity = Clear
Last Rain = 09/24/07

The crappie bite is on! Well, if all you want are small fish.

Over the weekend my brother Charlie and I caught a few and not one over 10 inches. Jim was fishing with is buddy Dick and Dick’s wife Sharon. They did better with a couple of crappie over 10 inches. The crappie were caught sort of scattered in 7 to 14 feet of water. Most were caught in the main channel and it helps to be around brush in the deeper water and weed and brush in the 7 foot water. We caught them on jigs, Road Runners and crappie sized spinner baits. On LOE there isn’t a limit on how big you can keep them and I hope all of us would return the small ones. Overall the crappie fishing was slow to fair.

Bass fishing was fair. My brother and I caught some on spinner baits. Dick did better with more and bigger fish. Dick was catching them up to 16 + inches on rubber worm presentations as Jim was looking for deep water crappie. Once again the bass were caught in the main channel on points and flats.

More importantly I got a chance to fish with my 5 year old grandson Logan from my boat. It was a wonderful experience. My son Adam had him casting and fishing since he was 3 years old and it showed. Logan started off fishing a frog over the weeds, which he talked me into buying him while we were at the marina buying worms. Many cast later Logan stated the bass are not biting so we switched over to blue gills. After refining our gear and using smaller hooks we started catching gills. We boated many gills and my grandson caught 3 on his own cast, hook and retrieval. He was very proud of the ones he caught by himself and I was very proud he knew the difference. Logan was so happy he added me and Uncle Charlie to his list of fishing buddies and Uncle Charlie even got invited to his next birthday party! That's a very prestigous invite! Grandma has been uninvited 3 times for making him eat his vegtables! Before the outing was over he was practicing his fish story. That’s when I knew he is a chip off the old block!

Twenty three years ago his dad Adam and I … well it doesn’t get any better!

Fish On!
Mike O.
UBetcha Outdoors