Thursdays seem to be becoming my afternoon for outdoor play.  Yesterday, I headed up to the lake and did some wading around shooting carp and a few bowfin.  Very good day…check back tomorrow for that post.

After I was finished slinging the fiberglass arrow, I headed up to a country grocery/gas store and bought 2 dozen minnows, headed back to the exact spot I was parked and dropped some  minnows off the bridge from about 6:30 til 8:45 p.m.  Didn’t tear the crappie up, but did catch enough to fill my frying pan tonight for supper.  I caught the fish only about a foot off the bottom (5 feet deep) with live minnows.  Only 1 small crappie and kept 4 in the bucket and filleted them when I got home.  All 4 fish were within the 11-13″ size category.  Nice, give or take a couple ounces “pounders”.  Unfortunately, my camera battery got used up shooting pictures of my bowfishing outing, so no pictures of the crappie.

Tip: If a bridge is constructed out of a series of solid walled culverts, crappie tend to relate tightly to structure.  Drop a bait within about a foot of each corner of the concrete walls coming out from below the bridge to intercept crappie passing back and forth under the bridge.