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Well guys..after what seemed like a ton of friutless trips, I have finally got into the crappie at I-82 pond # 5! Last year was a break thru for me catching crappie in Yakima county, espeacially on the I-82 ponds. After tolling for trout on pond 4 for a bit, I dropped my flat bottom in to pond 5 and began using my Eagle color graph to try to find those elusive scools of 8 to 9" crappie that I found so often last year. I hit the beaver hut on the west side first and on my first cast nailed a beautiful 10" slab off a stick up with a watermelon pearl 2.5" Gulp minnow. But...that was the only hit I got. I motored up lake after half an hour and started probing the over hanging brush pockets on the south shore. A couple of fat and spunky blue gills took my minnow, but no crappie. It wasn't untill I started probing the beaver hut on the mid lake east side did I start catching some Crappie. The transition zone under water saddle between the exposed Island and the east shore was good- I caught 13 crappie there- all but one, 8" males in thier black spawnig coloration. I hit the mother load though near the stickups in the far southeast corner. In about 2 hours , I used my minnow and a 1/80th oz red silver prototype eye/fly jig on a thill shy bite bobber. I lost count but I put the days catch at somewhere near 60 fish. I only kept a dozen fish for the fryer, releasing all the lighter colored, egg laden females to spawn. I found that school of crappie by doubling my zoom feature on my color graph and setting my float so that my jig hung sligthly above the fish. About a 4 pound Bass took my minnow and broke me off around a stickup. (At least I got to see her!!) Later on brothers, good luck-the Jigmiester
