Fishing Report – Crappie – Palm Coast, Fl. 2-2-13

Saturday, Feb. 2, ,2013
Weather: high 68 , low 37 deg, Clear, Barometer 30.08 has been steady to slight trend down
Winds: light
Water temp.: ?
Major Feed Time : 5:35 PM

Target Species: Crappie (Specks) Method: Drifting with jigs

Location: local canal, Palm Coast, Fl.

Catch: (8) Specks (kept), (2) Bass (small),       lost (2) Specks

One of my fishing partners, Rick and I decided to do another Speck fishing trip today. Rick wanted to fish a new place that we had not tried yet this year. I was really impressed with this little spot! It was one of the fishiest looking places I have see in Palm Coast.

Rick did a little jigging with a mini-jig on his fly rod around some cattails and caught a couple bass but could not pull out a speck along the bank.

We primarily trolled jigs around using our backwards paddling technique so you can see your poles and floats. We fished a variety of colors and none of them seemed to out fish any other. I caught most of my fish on a yellow and white jig and a white jig with a pink head. I tried several depths but mostly fished about 4′ deep. Depending on your speed, your jigs will ride above this depth in the water column. Starting and stopping will often produce a strick.

There was not much action until late. Note that the MF (major feed) was not until 5:35 PM! We probably started fishing about 3:30PM and knocked off just before dark. The bite was slow but we had some nice quality fish. They were a step up from what we have been catching.

As with the other specks we have caught recently, these all had stomach worms. They have a tendency to also attach around the eggs in the fish so I did not keep any of them. You can scrape them off the outside of the egg sack but the thought of one of these possibly getting inside the eggs and me eating it…….no I’ll pass on the that! About half of the fish were females with eggs.

Here are a few photo’s of the fish from the trip.

See ya on the water,

Larry S.