Degree by degree the water gets colder. Until the water gets solid there is always fun to be had catching crappies.
My friend Monique contacted me asking if I was going fishing this Saturday. I was planning to go anyway and it's always nice to have company. I felt bad ever since I took her and her son Alex to fish for early fall largemouth and she got skunked. I was determined to put us on some crappies and that is what I did.
My first cast with a minnow hooked on the Custom Jigs and Spins gold metallic diamond-head jig hooked a nice crappie.
A quick picture, a quick release, and a quick addition of another minnow to my jig and my float went down again. This one was bigger.
Measuring at 11" this was a nice, thick, fat bellied crappie. Getting ready for winter added some heft to this fish and the fight on my ultralight rod was all that much more fun.
I bit off the ice jig I had tied on Monique's line and tied on another gold diamond-head jig. The jig was the ticket for crappie today. In short order Monique began catching crappie.
What is it with people I fish with kissing fish? Never mind, the jig-switch worked and that was what mattered. She still wouldn't impale a minnow but after a few fish Monique got the hang of lipping crappies and unhooking the jig from their paper-thin mouths.
After we caught a dozen fish we decided to call it a day. The nice 10.25" crappie above is the last one we caught.
Another successful trip out for some crappie catching. I'm glad I could put Monique on some fish. When quality fish come in enough quantity that they are catchable with the right methods it makes for a fun time out in nature.
Funny how standing next to water is so calming. You watch the ripples in the water move your float up and down. Then it stays down. Reel in the slack, rod-tip up, and give a steady pull to set the hook home. Reel when you feel the wiggle and that's how it was today catching these early December crappies.
Oops...When did it become December? ;-) The URL will still stay November but the crappies remain.
