Cedar Creek Reservoir
Time: 7:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Air Temperature: 61 - 78 degrees during trip
Water Temperature:
Lake Level: 580.24
Weather Conditions: Mostly Cloudy. Winds N-NW 6-12 mph
Doug and I took a day off today and hit the water for one last time for our spring crappie season. It was a bit chilly and the cloud cover never lifted for long,
We started off fishing near the boat landing on the south shore. The wind would soon get up and make the south shore tough, so we tried there in then shallows first with minnows and a bobber. We struck out in our first 2-3 shallow stops, so we knew we needed to do something different.
We decided to target deep water fully submerged structure like we had success with a couple weeks back. We started on the east end of the lake on the big south bay in the bend of the river and quickly caught a few with the livescope and vertical jigging. One we hit a couple locations here, we headed down to the far north west side of the lake and fished the narrow channel in the deep water we found fishing earlier in the year. Once again, today we caught fish on ever single stop where we concentrated on submerged structure and jigging with the livescope. The difference today was that we were pulling up good fish whereas a couple weeks earlier, only small, immature fish were in the deep structure.
I don't believe we took any pictures today, but had a solid day. Especially considering we had to completely change tactics. We ended the day catching 20 crappie with 9 big enough to keep and one drum. Once again, I was surprised to see 5-6 still hold eggs at the end of April. Also surprised fish caught in 15-20 FOW over suspended structure hadn't moved up to lay.
Overall, I had a solid 2020/2021 crappie season averaging 24 crappie per trip and 12 large enough to keep each time. Very solid improvement in progress over the past few years. I'm changing over to catfish now and will pick up the long poles again in November.
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