Well with getting back on the water here in SD and working and what not I am just getting this post up. I was up in the NW angle the 3rd-6th and was going into Ontario daily to chase the big slabs that this area can hold. We had 3.5 days of fishing and in those days caught and released close to 170 crappies. We had fresh fish for dinner every night. We got into walleyes everyday unfortunately our size structure was slightly smaller than what we were hoping for. The whitefish also made the mid day go faster. We found all of our crappies relating to deep tips of points as well as fishing some deeper contours that connected two larger basin areas. Most of the fish we found were willing to bite bigger baits. I caught my biggest fish on buckshot rattle spoons with a half or whole salted fathead. Some of the fish at times would lay on the bottom and i got these with a few spikes on a tungsten jig. The size was very good as our crappies probably averaged that 13 plus with a good amount over 14 and then also fish down in that 11.5-12 inch range. Big fish of the trip was a 15.5 that i caught and released. Big eye was a 23″. Whitefish ran 3-5lbs. If you ever get a chance to do a trip like this do it. Awesome to have big paper mouths stacked 6 deep on the flasher and race up to your jig 10 feet up off the bottom.
picture of the 15.5 not a great pic…had to take the picture myself with the timer and was more concerned about getting the fish back down the hole
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Nice Chunky eye CPR