Got out to enjoy the nice weather today with my buddy Jon. We went to Coffey County Lake in search of pretty much anything that would bite and we weren't disappointed. There was hundreds of gulls diving in the warm water of the outlet and we started catching sturdy white bass and wipers as fast as we could get a bait in the water. Traps, cranks, swimbaits, and a flutter spoon all got pounded again and again. I had one nice, fat wiper on a Luck E Strike Smoothie crank.

Jon got busted off by a really big fish and then came back and caught his new PB wiper, 4.87 pounds on a Series 5.

Of course like normal the whites and wipers worked towards the cables and eventually out of reach and we switched to bass. We caught lots of largemouth and one smallmouth with some pretty solid ones up to 3lbs on flukes, swimbaits, and spoons. The lake has some monster crappie thanks to a 12" length limit so we decided to try for them a little bit. I'd been getting hit on a Havoc Sick Fish and not hooking up, turns out they were crappie trying to eat that bait. We started tossing 3" power minnows and smacking big crappie and then I got surprised by this gal, our biggest of the day.

We managed to fill out both of our 5 fish limits of with 10 12.5-14.25 inch crappie which made the trip back home with us

We ended up with 94 fish by the fish counter but I know I missed several clicks early in the morning when the whites and wipers where in a frenzy because I was in such a hurry to get my bait back in the water. I wouldn't be surprised if we caught over 100 fish but even if I remember to click the counter for every fish 94 fish isn't too bad for a days work   

 

 

Nice dude!

Great job as usual!

WOW!  What a fun trip!  My kind of day!

 

Jeff

BB, I don't think I can continue to see you go fishin & catchin and can't go myself! As soon as I get my work caught up I'm heading south. Congrats on another great winter fishin trip!

BB, I don't think I can continue to see you go fishin & catchin and can't go myself! As soon as I get my work caught up I'm heading south. Congrats on another great winter fishin trip!

I'm lucky to live close to a couple power plant lakes with good fishing in them. It does a lot to keep the winter time crazies away when I can get out to some soft water in the winter time.