Cedar Creek Reservoir
Time: 7:45 AM - 5:00 PM
Air Temperature: 58 - 78 degrees during trip
Water Temperature: 63 degrees
Lake Level: 581.56
Weather Conditions: Sunny. Clear. Winds turning heavy. 6 mph to 15 mph SSE
Today kicked off our spring crappie season on Cedar Creek. Doug and I cashed in a vacation day and hit the water. We put in a Britton Bridge and fished the nearby south shore first. Pretty much immediately, we got into the crappie while pitching slip bobbers and minnows into the stumps, bushes, and log jams. They were hitting hard in about 3.5 FOW up to about 1.5 FOW. Douglas and I pulled in several pretty rapidly. Lots of short fish...
Afterwards, we went over on the north shore near the pump house and pulled out a couple, but is was slower, so we quickly moved on. We headed under the bridge and looked for the structure I'd fished the past couple seasons on the other side of the road, but the water was too high to fish it by sight.
We rounded the corner upstream and fished the big blow down on the south shore and managed to pull several more out of there. Again, many short fish. I pulled 3-4 out of there on vertical jigs as well.
We tried the blow down on the north bank in the curve of the river, but had no luck. The winter was not kind to the blow down and it is very rough in shape now.
We headed all the way west towards the dam and went back into the cedar stands on the south shore to the area I did well last year. We picked up about three largemouth there, but not much for crappie. We were well into a fish drought by this point of the day.
We headed back up to the north shore and tried all the typical areas, but struck out every time. We did catch about 7 rock bass, but no crappie.
With our day getting short, we decided to head back to our first stop and re-fish that area. Glad we did. Doug pulled in two nice crappie and Douglas and I added several as well.
Overall, it was a solid day. Ended up with 15 keepers and threw about 20 back. Caught a total of about 45 fish today.
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