The crappie bite is still on and crackin' at lake isabella.  I guess because of the low lake levels lately the crappie are not where I usually find them, near Camp 9 in the trees and weeds and around French Gulch marina.  I was a little worried that the crappie were all gone, I knew that I had caught a bunch, but I didn't think I had single handedly wiped them out.  Well it turned out that my instincts were good.  There are plenty of crappie left, and I found them out in the south fork near Paradise Cove and Kissack Bay. I am usually on a boat or at least a float tube, so I am not sure how

I have been so impressed by the continued crappie bite at Lake Isabella that I have made a dozen trips up there over the last month. Limits most of the time and there are two to three of us on each trip.  Many 1 pound plus crappie. Jigs were the most productive, over minnows and other lures.  Catfish on night crawlers and Jumbo redworms.  Catfish have been very active, many smaller ones, but for every few small ones a nice 3-6 lber would show up.  I did some fishing at Buena Vista recently and caught probably 100 catfish.

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