Big Muddy
04-03-2013, 08:42 AM
I can't get any field work done, so I sneaked (snucked, snacked, snocked?) off, or whatever, to Chicot after another deluge rain on Sunday....that lake is driving me crazy....the banks are lined with nothing but cypress trees, sitting in about 4-5 feet of water, and every one of them look identical.
The crappie spawn is on, and every time I've fished there, I try to fish a new area, and learn more about the lake....however, there are only 9 trees in over a mile stretch of bank that are holding crappie....all of those 9 trees are next to each other, within an area about the size of a football field endzone....for the past two days, I bet I've fished well over 200 cypress trees, without so much as touch.
Yet, everytime I return to those 9 trees, I catch crappie....and I'm talking big, fat, egg-laden, sow females....looking at those 9 trees, there is absolutely nothing different about them....neither, can I see or feel any structure or limbs underneath the water.
The only thing I can think of that might make that area different is, I've heard talk about some of the cabin owners, dumping pea gravel next to their lakeside property to make spawning areas for bream fishing....other than that, I haven't figured out why the area around those 9 trees is so productive.
I put nearly 2 gallons of crappie fillets in the freezer, last night, and all came from those 9 cypress trees....don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, just curious, bewildered, confused, and befuddled.
The crappie spawn is on, and every time I've fished there, I try to fish a new area, and learn more about the lake....however, there are only 9 trees in over a mile stretch of bank that are holding crappie....all of those 9 trees are next to each other, within an area about the size of a football field endzone....for the past two days, I bet I've fished well over 200 cypress trees, without so much as touch.
Yet, everytime I return to those 9 trees, I catch crappie....and I'm talking big, fat, egg-laden, sow females....looking at those 9 trees, there is absolutely nothing different about them....neither, can I see or feel any structure or limbs underneath the water.
The only thing I can think of that might make that area different is, I've heard talk about some of the cabin owners, dumping pea gravel next to their lakeside property to make spawning areas for bream fishing....other than that, I haven't figured out why the area around those 9 trees is so productive.
I put nearly 2 gallons of crappie fillets in the freezer, last night, and all came from those 9 cypress trees....don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, just curious, bewildered, confused, and befuddled.