55 crappie

Jigs we used for today

8-29-09
Yesterday morning me and Ashley caught 31 crappie, which we have already posted below. Well, we went back that evening and managed to keep 25 more. Nothing out of the ordinary on that trip, but we went back this morning for round 3. We got there around 7 a.m. and pulled the boat out around 1 p.m. The morning started off pretty slow, with us only catching a few fish out our main tree tops. We spent a lot of time running around in the boat trying to find other places that might hold fish, and managed to catch a few more here in there, but still pretty slow. Around 11 a.m. it was almost like you flicked a switch, to ON, because we started catching multiples out of the same tops we fished before that only produced one or two fish, and some of which produced none. We checked the pressure early this morning when we were on the water, and realized it had jumped up to 30, which the day before it had been much lower. Also, there was a pretty steady east, northeast wind. By the time we had left, the pressure had fallen to 29.95 and wind had switched to the Northwest. And as all fishermen know the old saying, "winds in the west, fish bite the best, winds in the east, fish bite the least". That's definitely true for the most part in my opinion. Anyways, when we got home, we ended up with 30 more slabs, and Ashley caught her biggest crappie yet, 2.1 lbs. Although she didn't want her pic taken with it, I surely didn't mind getting mine taken with it, so here are few pics from today.