I spent most of the idling around staring at my graph, in fact, I didn't get my boat on plane till I headed back in. I started out heading North and graphing creek channels.
1st, I found a small BP in the creek bed, saved a waypoint, turned around threw out a bouy, stuck my 1st fish of the day
You can see the bp on the graph and that it's in 12 fow


Caught a dink and as I wasn't marking a lot of fish, left to do some more. I graphed out almost the entire cove and saved a few waypoints for future reference.
Although, I did catch those 2 in 12 fow, I'm really not finding them ganged up shallow myself yet.

After that I reviewed the paper map and selected the next creek channel I wanted to search and took off, while continuing to study the graph.
As I was getting back out into the main west arm of the lake, I looked to the left at the point in the distance and instantly remembered a conversation I had with redsnapper last week. While discussing the migration habits of crappie in the fall, he had advised me to not overlook points.
I turned the boat and zig-zagged the boat towards the point while keening keeping 1 eye on the graph and the other on the stumps.

Once I got to 1 side of the point, I continued my weaving course towards the tip of the point, keeping my boat in the 8' to 20' zone.
Before I got down to the actual point, I found a submerged tree top in 18 fow that looked like it should be on a float in a Christmas parade
Pitched out my jig and before it could finish it's swing the line jumped, I set the hook and boated a solid fish


The action was fast & furious if you gave them the presentation they wanted. I was using a 1/32 jig head and they wanted the bait moving - SLOWLY!
I was pitching the jig out and letting it swing down to the top of the brush, if I didn't get a bite, I was lowering the jig approx. 2-3' and then with my free hand, hooking the line above the reel with my pointer finger and ever so slowly pulling the line out, stopping every foot or so. Once I had the jig lifted up, I'd let go of the line and watching closely. Most of the time, I didn't feel a bite, either I'd see my line twitch of it would just quit falling and slightly bow in the breeze. Set the hook, fish on


I lost myself in the action and forgot what I was really out there for, to find more places to fish, while attempting to gain a better understanding of the yearly crappie migration cycles. With the fish still biting, I retracted the trolling motor, cranked the big motor, and continued my zig zag course around the point.

Found another big concentration of crappie on a LARGE brush pile on the tip of the point. Quickly stuck some more fish and threw them in the box and continued my search.


I covered A LOT of water and marked quite a few places that showed a few fish and could possibly hold a bunch once they move up a little shallower


The last place I fished was a spot that although I marked a few fish, it would have never occurred to me to crappie fish there. I dropped a jig out of curiosity and THUMP
It was loaded with solid 11-13" fish


I quickly got my counter up to 24 and dropped my jig, line started spooling off my reel at a very fast pace before I had shut the bale. Once I got it shut the drag was slipping madly and I thought, another big bass
NOT


Dropped my jig again and instantly caught another catfish. The dang thing tore my bait up. I had started the day gluing that jig to my jighead and had used the very same jig all day until that second catfish tore it
Not to say I didn't try some other colors and presentations. I did, but they didn't want anything else I offered.

I quickly stuck another 11" fish
A Limit of good sized crappie and 2 good sized catfish now graced my box


It struck me as funny, spend most of the day searching new areas, probably only fished 2 hours and had a limit for a fish fry
I searched some more, marked some more spots and decided to head to the ramp



All the fish were caught a new color I've been testing for a little over a month now and it has out fished anything else I've dropped

Blue/Glo-Treuse Lil' Fry

Nice report, tbox. will have to find you next time I am out and follow you around

Your beginning to become a fish magnet there on Fork..
SWEET!
Jigum

Enjoyed reading that report. It's a good one! Nice haul too.

Nice Slabs. Awesome Post!

seems someone is getting the clue on the 1/32 thing my friend .....hehehe
K A B O O M ....VERY NICE

no you won't you still on my brush. HA HA .

no you won't you still on my brush. HA HA .

nice work Todd.them fork fish sure are pretty

thats awesome tbox,thanks for sharing.fishing lake fork is really high on my todo list.

Yep. Blue and chart are good on Fork. That's what I've been told anyways.

loved the story!!! great pics also!!!!!!!

Thank you sir.....I've been chasing bass so long I've lost my crappie way.....I intend to fix that!

wtg Mr Box!....yea yea yea