I got out on Cedar Creek yesterday for some crappie fishing again. It was a shorter than usual fishing day. I stopped and got gas for the boat on the way to the ramp, plus it was another day with afternoon temperatures in the upper 90’s, and besides that, the Texas Rangers were playing at 1:30 in the afternoon, and I decided this would be a good day to come home early and watch them. The freezer is well stocked with crappie from recent trips, so this would be strictly a catch and release day. I ended up being surprised at how many crappie I caught. Even after a longer than usual lunch break, when I headed back to the boat ramp at 1:00, I’d caught 36 keeper crappie. There were lots of small keepers, but a number of really nice size fish too. As usual with crappie in the dog days of summer, they were very finicky, and only wanted smaller crappie jigs. But with the right jig, lowered into the right place, at exactly the right depth (12 feet), they really bit well. I can’t remember ever catching this many crappie on an August day before.

A beauty from yesterday’s trip.