February 27, 28

I went fishing at a private sandpit lake in the late afternoon. I caught good numbers of crappies between 10 and 12 inches around underwater brush piles next to a drop off. I caught them on a drop-shot rig with a Tiny Shad Assassin and a 1/16-ounce jig head with a 3-inch Berkley Power worm on the tag end of the line.

February 7

I went fishing at a private sandpit lake for about an hour in the late afternoon. I caught 3 largemouth bass between 12 and 16 inches on a 1/16-ounce jig head with Berkley 4-inch Power Worm around edges of deep weed beds next to a point in depths of 20 feet or less. I also caught a few crappies between 10 and 12 inches around an underwater brush pile using a 1/32 jig head with a Tiny Shad Assassin.

January 31, February 2, 3

I went fishing at three different private sand pit lakes in the late afternoon. I caught largemouth bass between 10 and 16 inches, crappies up to 12 inches, and two perch at 10 and 8 inches. These fish were caught on a 1/16-ounce jig head with Berkley 4-inch Powerworm, and a Gulp! 3-inch minnow around underwater brush piles and edges of deep weed beds next to points in depths of 20 feet or less.

January 12-15

I went fishing at four different private sand pit lakes (open water) in the late afternoon. I caught good numbers of crappies up to 13 inches, largemouth bass between 8 and 13 inches, and a small perch. Most of these fish were caught on a drop-shot rig with a small tube bait, and a tiny Shad Assassin around edges of deep weed beds, and underwater brush piles in depth of 25 feet or less. I also caught some crappies suspended in depths of 8 to 20 feet along the drop-off between 25 and 40 feet of water in the middle of the lake using a 1/16-ounce tube jig.

January 7, 9-11

I went fishing at a private sand pit lake (open water) in the late afternoon. I caught good numbers of crappies up to 14 inches, and three largemouth bass between 15 and 18 inches. I caught these fish using a drop-shot rig with a small tube bait around underwater brush piles, and deep weed beds next to the drop-off in depths of 25 feet or less.

January 2, 3

I went fishing at two different private sand pit lake (open water) in the afternoon. On of one of the sand pits, I caught good numbers of crappies up to 14 inches, and a few bluegill up to eight inches. These fish were caught suspended in depths of 10 to 25 feet along the drop-off between 30 and 40 feet of water in the middle of the lake, using small 1/16- and 1/32-ounce tube jigs. On the other sand pit I caught seven largemouth bass up to 14 inches, three perch up to 11 inches, and a few crappies up to 12 inches. I caught these fish using the small tube jigs, and a drop-shot rig with a small tube bait around underwater brush piles and deep weed beds in depth of 20 feet or less.

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