Bartlet is looking up

[Metalbndr]

Launched at yellow cliffs about 7:00am with my wife and proceeded down lake to a favorite area.  Metered  lots of individual fish and the start of stacks .  The lake was nice and calm.  Proceeded to set up the spider rigs and we  were fishing by 7:30. There were two other boats fishing for Crappie when we got there.  Finally about 9:00 my wife catches three in less than 3 minutes  and I think Happy days are here again.  We fish for another 2 hours and the wind picks up and it is really tough to go slow.  We tried a sea anchor and it really helped.   Just as I go to pull the sea anchor in, I get a crappie.   Now we decide to stay a while longer.  Another hour and we start pulling the lines in and breaking down the poles when my other pole goes off and it is peeling drag.  It was the biggest crappie of the day at 14". The other 4 were just over 12" Went ahead and quit fishing at noon..

Cleaned the fish and one was an immature Female with a tiny egg sack and the large crappie was a female that had spawned .  The other 3 I didn't see egg or sperm sacks.   Maybe I am going blind in my old age.


If the weather would ever settle down I think we are going to catch a lot of crappie at Barlett.

[IAMMAC]

Glad to see you're doing better and was able to get out on the water! 

[Fishless]

wow, there are crappie in bartlett thank for the report

[Piscolli]

Thanks for the report Don

[Palo Verde]

Ahhh!
So, that's what caught fish look like       
think I'll make a pic copy and take it with me next time I go so I'll remember why I'm there     

Yes, thanks for the report.