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  • April Report

    April 2nd - trip cancelled

    April 6th - Shad trip. Fished hard for many hours and caught one hickory. No charge for trip...

    April 7th - Shad Trip cancelled

    April 8th - Shad Trip cancelled

    April 9th - Crappie trip was dismal with 5 crappie and 6 cats caught.

    But a couple of nice LGMouth caught.

    April 13th - Shad Trip Caught 5 hickory and two Americans along with some catfish and big yellow perch and one crappie.

    April 14th - Shad trip Caught zero shad and four nice yellow perch. Several LGMouth too.

    April 15th - Crappie trip. No way was I going to do shad..Ran to some good water and almost limited out.

    My stick for holding fish on was not in the boat..

    April 16th - Crappie .. Ran to same spot and limited out with 30 plus nice crappie. Once again no stick...gotta find that stick.

    April 20th - Crappie.. Got on them again but it was not easy. Had to move around a lot since cold front came in.

    April 21 - Crappie .. cancelled

    April 22 - Crappie ...Back on the bite and wee bit warmer weather.

    April 23rd - Crappie little warmer and the crappie did bite ..almost a limit.

    April 24th - Crappie Worked hard and ran out of minnows before our limit. White perch stealing our bait all day.

    April 27th - Crappie Cold front shut them down again ..This the third time this month. But we did put some meat in the livewell with 5 cats and a big snakehead. Funny how after bleeding the big Snakehead out good it managed to open the cooler and jump out in the parking lot.



    April 28th - Crappie Cold front still hampering bite.

    April 29th - Crappie Sorta...Get an email night before trip that clients want to cast all day..Ok change of venue. Plan was shad/LGMouth/Crappie. No shad caught...12 LGmouth caught and one double. Casting minnows and bobbers lost four big cats and landed one. Then a few yellow perch and two monster crappie ended our day.



    April 30th - Crappie Found some here and there but also found some big white perch and 5 cats..cooler was full.

    May 1st - Crappie Another cold front shut them down. Caught 3 crappie all day.



    To summarize April was one of crappiest crappie season ever.. to many cold fronts and shad never showed...or I missed them somehow..

    Might be done depending on this next cold front. Maybe plant the garden instead.

    Capt Mike

  • #2
    Where do you shad fish? We've been catching plenty of hickories at Fletchers, although these cold fronts have played hell with the American shad bite.
    - Cliff

    Hobie Compass
    Perception Pescador Pro 100

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    • #3
      The inconsistent weather has definitely made for some challenging fishing this spring. Glad you eventually got your clients on some decent fish.
      Dave

      2021 Hobie Outback Camo
      2013 Native Slayer Hidden Oak

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Red_Beard View Post
        Where do you shad fish? We've been catching plenty of hickories at Fletchers, although these cold fronts have played hell with the American shad bite.
        Kinda secret.. in the past we have scored many whites in the 5 pound range and few in the 8 lb range. But not this year or last two years.. very odd weather. Although last year we got a 5 and 3 double.

        Capt Mike

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