Coralville Reservoir Crappies

I was just curious if anyone had a report on the crappies.
I think there is a Crappiethon event there this weekend.

What is a crappiethon?

I’m heading out tomorrow morning, don’t know where to yet. I suppose I’d better make a decision soon, though.

Living in CR is kind of a wierd scenario. There’s lots of water nearby, but none that I have a great deal of confidence on. Seems like maybe confidence is something you acquire on the two hour drive to wherever you’re fishing.

With the weather forecast to be beautiful, I’m probably going to avoid the ‘ville on a Saturday, even at 6:00AM. By 8:30 the power boaters are usually out in force, shaking of their hangovers at 50mph.

Had some friends fishing in the Crappie USA tourney there sat. and they said it was a madhouse. If you didn’t have your weighers by 9:30 you may as well pack it in. Most guys new what it was going to be like if the weather was decent and did not look forward to this tourney at all. Too small a lake for a 100+ boat regional. I don’t expect they’ll be back next year.

Did you hear who won or what there weight was? I did a lot of ice fishing out there this year with great sucess. Just curious if those fish were still coming in.

My wife was at the weigh-in and she said the winners only had 8lbs and something. I think all the traffic saturday and a week of prefishing may have shut them down. The results should be posted now on the crappieusa website.

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