first trip .....the creek bite went south for the winter it seems ,might be a migratory thing I suppose . maybe the fish will pick back up later ? I don't know if its the water temp or recent rain or a combination of factors such as the sandbass infiltration ....but I do know in one hour at lunch I got ONLY 2 bites !
I think it was a legal fish though and the little black crappie has apparently survived a cormorant strike a while back and will most likely never have shoulders .....
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second trip .....lots of bites and little tiny white crappie . I never managed to get a fish to take a straight drop presentation last night . but for sure under a float "FIXED" float that is ....I managed a small fish dinkfest for a few hours last night . they were stacked up on top of a brushpile in about 11 foot of water and I never managed any legal fish ....but it was still fun none the less and I fine tuned the fine art of float ketchn once again . 5 foot deep and a 1/32 was getting bit a lot , I tried a few other spots and presentations and this was the only way I could ketch them last night .....
most of the fish negative bit with only a very few taking it under . the good new is the dropping water temps seem to be improving the dock ketchn . saw a few keepers on stringers but was told the bite pretty much quit right when we got there .....!!!
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note float ......

It's a fact of life that the bite always quits just before you arrive and starts again five minutes after you leave.

At least that is what I am told by some of the regulars at the marina.

yep heard that yet again down on the crik at lunch ...
should a been here this morning early ....
said they eyelets froze on his rod but the bite was excellent till the sun came up
seems I am always a day late and a dollar short ...
or half a day late and half a dollar short in some cases .....

Well, at least you found them. Thanks for the update.

Good job finding a few! "Kaboom"!

thanks yawl ...
sure wasn't the best 2 outings but sometimes when you are stuck in the just around the immediate area a fish or 2 is better than none .

Just being out there fishing is reward enough by itself. If you consider anything you catch a bonus you always leave happy from each fishing trip, even on the days the fish don't cooperate.