The lake has come up to 600.54 and currently that is 4ft. over pool so they will be dropping it when they can. Water temps. are 56-60 as of April 27th. The crappie spawn is full on and the males are all darkened up. I am fishing rocks, stumps, anything in the 4-8ft. range on the north end with a 1/8oz. Deep Ledge Jig and a Brushpile plastic in anything with chartreuse and pearl or white. They don’t care. The last four days we have boated three limits in less than four hours the fishing is on fire. Haven’t been using minnows simply because you don’t need them yet. I am waiting on Pana bait to get some bigger ones as well. So for now I am fishing with just two anglers and myself all up on the nose tight lining a jig and watching it on Livescope in real time. The fish chase the jig everywhere and just hammer it.

I have put my blade baits in the boat to go after walleye once we get our crappie limit still early but who knows. I will full on start to walleye fish May 15th. So no report until then.

I just had April 26,27,28 open up and the weather looks great for the weekend and the fishing right now is as good as it gets for crappie!!!!
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