03-01-2010, 10:00 AM
I made my first foray checking on pre-spawn crappie Saturday. It was good start. Began long-line trolling just after 8 am on a shallow spawning flat in 6 - 10 feet of water. Terrrible... we trolled for an hour with one crappie to show for it.<br /><br />We moved farther out the creek working 11 - 15 of water in and around the main creek channel ... Bingo! We found &#39;em.<br /><br />In two hours we caught more than 30 crappie, about half shorts and half good keepers. We quit about 11:30 and Ross went home with 15 for the freezer. He said the majority of the fish he cleaned were males, which I believe are the first to move into the pre-spawn mode. That means things should just continue to improve in the coming weeks.<br /><br />Sadly, I am down for the count... I have a broken wing.emoBadLanguage <br /><br />Yesterday morning almost killed my shoulder that is hurting bad. I had to defer (almost) all the reeling to Ross and I wasn&#39;t sure if there was enough hydocodone in the world to help me when I got home. emoBawl <br /><br />I have an MRI Tuesday and sometime after that my Doc will tell me if (or probably when), he&#39;ll do surgery. Talk about bad timing.... emoBang