Lake Wisconsin Fall Crappie fishing report

Weekend of September 15th

Cold weather put plenty of frost on the windshield of my truck this past Saturday morning. But it didn’t stop the crappies from biting completely on Lake Wisconsin. It did however, slow them down a bit.

I am going to keep this report very short. The reason why is because I’m seriously under the weather. Somebody gave me a really bad cold or the flu and the couch or the bed are the only places that give me any comfort.
As most of you know, we were hit with very cold temperatures on Friday night. This did make fishing for crappies a little slower than it has been over the past couple of weekends.
We still found plenty of fish and everyone left happy, but we also had to work a little harder to get those fish to bite.

Main lake temperatures were running 76 degrees last weekend but after Friday night, they are now at 65 degrees.
This pushed many of the crappies a couple of feet deeper. We still found a few fish in shallower water but many of our fish also came from 10′ to 17′ deep this week.
The exact same techniques were employed we just fished them a little deeper than normal.

That’s it for now, I’m heading back to the couch to blow my nose and watch Monday night football.
Hope you all had some luck out there!

Boog