I got out yesterday on Cedar Creek. By mid August, the crappie fishing that had been so good this summer on Cedar Creek quickly faded. I’ve been getting out on the lake once a week for some crappie fishing since then, but it’s been tough, with catches of just 10 to 12 crappie per trip, so I haven’t been writing up anything for my blog. We had a short cool spell right at the beginning of September, but it quickly warmed back up to the point of having 90’s temperatures again in the afternoons. And the fishing stayed pretty much the same.

But it changed a bit yesterday. The crappie still haven’t left the deeper water they’ve been in, but they are holding more shallow now. 11 feet was the magic depth for them yesterday. I caught 22 keepers, all at that depth. That makes me think the fall move a lot of them make to shallower water will happen soon. As has been the case all summer, my smaller 1/24th oz jigs were what the crappie wanted yesterday. I spent an hour at the beginning of the day checking for a bass bite, but caught nothing.

I caught more nice size crappie yesterday than I have been catching the last few trips.

Besides crappie, fishing a jig around Cedar Creek bridges catches lots of other fish too, including this nice blue cat I caught yesterday.

As well as two of these hybrid stripers.

I’m going to make a second trip this week, tomorrow. I’m going the check out the lower lake. I haven’t been there in a while now, and even though the bass bite probably won’t be happening there either, and the fact that I don’t have warm water crappie spots that are as good as what I have mid lake, I’m still going to spend the day there. If I don’t catch anything worthy of a report here, I’ll just wait until the next good trip to post.