I tried jigging for trout... and got a PB Crappie ?!?!?!

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I tried jigging for trout... and got a PB Crappie ?!?!?!

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My cottage is on a tiny lake that I thought I knew well... so imagine my surprise when after 5 years I discovered a tiny wedge of rock that is in the middle of the lake, rises from 70 feet to around 13 feet, then plunges back down to 50. The whole features is about 3 feet wide at the top and runs perhaps 200 feet long.

On one side it had a flat area that was around 30 feet deep and when I saw this I knew it was gonna be good...

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I figured that this had to be an opportunity to try vertical jigging, but there were sunfish and bass near the surface that would hammer my lure as soon as it hit the water, I literally couldn't get more than 2-3 feet down before I had an unwanted fish.

So i changed it up, grabbed my ICE FISHING kit and selected my heaviest puppet minnow and sent it screaming to the bottom. What followed was about half an hour of the best CRAPPIE fishing I have ever had with every single fishing measuring around 13 to 13.5 inches, all cookie cutters except one that topped 14 inches. Certainly most fish beat my previous personal best of 13.0 inches.

All fish went back into the water for another day.

While I was really hoping these were going to be trout that had come up from the depths to feed, it was still a great experience.

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Very cool stuff - amazing find... I always wonder when there is an anomaly like that. Spaceship? Volcano Core? Why ? ;)
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What's crazy about that is you could go back to that spot and never catch a Crappie again or load em every time! Nomadic buggers!

That's a great find!

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Congrats on a nice slab and you never know about fish until you try a new spot
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Awesome day out! Looks like fun.
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Sweet slabs Steve! will be neat to see if you find them there again.
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Was recently trolling in 40ft of water and a dink SMB hit the lure. That was unexpected.
...anything to bend the rod
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Nice!!
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Post by Peron »

Cool! Nice find. I assume you will be testing that spot routinely to see what else frequents it! :D

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