Pineview

[El_Matador]

I was up there as well and I found it to be relatively poor fishing. When we first arrived at 5:30 we set up on the west side of the tent city in 52' and marked fish immediately. The catching was decent for a while...I was trying different stuff and caught 7 while my buddy fished a tungsten 5mm tipped w/waxie and landed 11. Around 7:30 the bite really tapered off. We were still marking fish but not in the numbers I've seen in the past. Maybe 5 fish on the finder at a time was all. So we went looking for more fish. We drilled probably 25 holes on every side of the tent city from 55' to 15' and never marked more than 2 fish. We dropped a line down many times to confirm that we weren't seeing a false bottom of crappie.

When we were on fish they were hitting the Hali jig like crazy. Hookup rate was very low however. Overall our best lures for catching were the tungsten jigs tipped with waxies or small gulp minnows.

Talked to one other group that didn't catch many. They said one of their group had arrived a bit earlier, around 4:00, and had caught 40 by himself.

Maybe the timing of the bite is different this year due to slightly higher water levels, maybe the crappie were just confined to the tent city area. Maybe the cold high pressure had something to do with it, I'm not sure. When fishing is good up there it doesn't take long to catch a limit though.

Thanks for the reports, it helps to formulate a game plan for next time!
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