The super hot summer crappie bite continued this week. On Tuesday, a hot day with light winds all day long, I caught 57 keeper crappie. I’m pretty certain that this is the most crappie I’ve ever caught in the middle of summer. Lots of the fish were small keepers, but like has been the case lately, there were a few really nice crappie too. I went fishing again Thursday. There was a pretty stiff wind early Thursday, and Wednesday morning’s storms had muddied the water at bit at my favorite spot, and the bite was quite a bit tougher than Tuesday, especially early. Still, by 1:00 pm when the bite shut off, I had caught 21 keeper crappie. That’s still a great day of crappie fishing, to me.

Tuesday, Cedar Creek’s water level had fallen to 9 inches below normal. Wednesday’s storms raised the lake 1 inch. So the lake is in much better shape than August, last year.

One of Thursday’s nicer crappie.