9-20-08 Saturday, Sept. 20th
Jerry Natz purchased this fishing trip as a birthday present for his son David way back in March. Today was finally the day he got enjoy his birthday present.
As usual, Dave was looking to put a mess of fish together for a fish fry. So plan A was to make sure we caught some keepers.
No problem there! By the end of the morning, along with a bonus 18" walleye, he was closing in on his limit of crappies. So we decided to take a shot at catching a couple of bigger crappies since we had plenty of day left to fish.
I had a pretty good idea where to look and how to target them but an idea was about all it was so far and trying to catch bruiser crappies in the middle of a hot, sunny day isn't exactly like fishing for them during early morning or late in the evening. Still, your not going to get them by not at least trying and we had nothing to lose at this point. Basically, we upsize our jig/plastic combo's and tipped them with the largest fathead's we could dig out of our minnow bucket.
By the way, the Precision H20 jigs from B'Fish'N tackle work great for this type of crappie fishing.
We set off to another part of the lake and within 2 minutes of dropping our rigs, Dave connected with our first big crappie. Wow, this was looking like it was going to be pretty easy. Well it did get quite a bit slower after that. We went thru the same area a second time but found no more magic there.
So we set in to slowly work over a long break line that dropped from 14' down to 22' of water. This slow drift would take us about 2 hours to fish properly but it did prove worth while. Dave ended up popping two more jumbo crappies and a couple of regular eaten size ones to fill out his limit of 25.
All in all, it was another great day for fall crappie fishing on Lake Wisconsin.
