I went out early Saturday morning by Oxford Junction and didn’t have any luck on the walleyes either. That got old after a while, so I changed gears and grabbed the 16 foot telescopic pole and started jigging brushpiles. I did manage to catch about 15 crappies, but only about three were over 10 inches. Most of them were closer to 6. There was some brush that I couldn’t reach without going over my waders, so I decided to come back late in the afternoon with the 12 foot boat and try my luck with that. I called up a friend to see if he wanted to go with, and he agreed to meet me at the river later. I was late getting down there, and he had already caught a smallie and snagged a mooneye. We launched the boat and got to the brush pile, and he must have thought I was blowing smoke about the crappies earlier in the day, ’cause we couldn’t buy a bite. We didn’t have any live bait, but the way they were hammering those cubby tube jigs in the morning, I didn’t think we’d need any. We kind of gave up on the crappies and started casting jigs and blade baits, and my friend managed to pick up a nice 22 inch walleye. Hopefully the weather will mellow out and the fish put the feed bag on over the next couple of weeks.
