Spring Panfish

[Fisherman89]

I couldn't pass up the beautiful weather this past Thursday, so I took the day off work to get out fishing. First time on the water for me since ice out!



My goal was to catch a few crappie, but for most of the day all I found were a few perch and a number of bluegills. The perch and bluegill were all caught in 2 to 8 ft of water on a 1/16 oz VMC hot skirt jig with a 2" powerbait minnow, suspended about 1.5 feet under a bobber.



I finally caught a couple crappie shortly before sunset. They came on a 1/16 oz jighead with a Mr. Crappie Joker plastic (in Electric Chicken colour).



Had the crappie for breakfast in the morning




Looking forward to Walleye opener next weekend!

[Corvus Lacus]

Yum yum...thanks for sharing. Hope to get out this week for a feed of Crappie. With this cold front punching through, not sure where they'll be. How deep did you get them ? Are they still suspended out over deeper water, or have they moved into shallow structure ?

[Fisherman89]

This lake isn't very deep, only about 18ft max depth. These ones were in about 8ft, but were closer to the surface, they seemed to be relating to a clump of cabbage. I could not find them during the day though, they only came out to bite around sunset.

Good luck!