The cold has finally set in! The giant crappie have been biting deep in 20 to 40ft of water on live minnows and plastic Crappie Magnets! Most of these deep crappie are white crappie but if you move shallower you’ll catch dozens of black crappie. The...

The temperature finally started to drop….what a relief! With the cool nights moving in the bass and crappie started moving shallower. We continued to catch crappie on live minnows and casting 1/16oz jigs to brushpiles in 8 to 15 ft of water. The bas...

While September is one of the hottest months of the year the bass and crappie continued to bite! BCGS served dozens of clients making memories along the way. The crappie stayed in 10 to 20ft of water….mostly caught on live minnows around isolated wo...

This week was excellent weather and fishing but adjusting to the conditions was the key. I guided almost everyday and I saw these fish change their behavior as the water warmed. With the cooler water the bass were positioned lower in the water colu...

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