Crappie, White Bass, and Gills at Alum Creek

[ratherbefishing]

Dave Hoheisel, my buddy John, and Myself fished the marina at Alum Creek Lake yesterday morning and into the early afternoon.

I arrived about seven and started marking fish when I got to about 25 FOW, they were holding at about this depth all day, with a few suspending fish that couldn't be coaxed into biting anything.

The fish that we did locate down near the bottom were hitting deadsticked minnows which we were dropshotting about 1' to 3' off the bottom. They were also pretty keen on the Silver and Orange Swedish Pimple tipped with a minnow and the Genz Worm tipped with a minnow head or tail.

Between 7am and about 10am we were getting some White Bass of good size with a lot of small Crappie turning on later in the morning.

By 11am we were catching keeper size crappie and having active chasers on the Vexilar (feeding both up and down.) We caught the majority of our fish out of one heavily concentrated school in 25 FOW, and all were taken within 5' of the bottom.

Final take was 6 White Bass, 4 nice Gills, and 18 Crappie. We caught between 60-70 Crappie and had a triple hook-up at one point around 1:00pm!

[davidhoheisel]

Sounds like the day turned on after i left. Good Job.