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Air Temp: High: 90 - Low: 64
Wind: 5-15 mph
Lake Level: 840' (Click Here For Current Water Level)
Water Surface Temp: 82 - 84
Water Clarity: Clear Green!
Area Fished: Clark, Tanyard, Kellogg/Owl Creek, S-Turns & Little River Area
Jigs Used: UV Shad - Dagger, Watermelon Red - Dagger, Motor Oil Red - Dagger, UV Smoke - Dagger and BlueGrass - Dagger
Technique: Spider Rigging Minnows & Casting Jigs
Allatoona Weekly Crappie Fishing Report:
This past week was not too bad for Lake Allatoona crappie! The first part of the week we had a nice little cool down which made fishing really enjoyable! The wind kicked up a little the last couple of days of the week but all in all it was a great week for some solid Allatoona crappie action! It's June in North Georgia and the temps are going to be climbing into the high 80's and 90's throughout the summer. The best time to be on the lake is in the morning before the heat, wind and pleasure boaters get on the water. We usually hit the lake between 0600 and 1100 and call it a day. That's just summer time crappie fishing on most any lake and it's no different on Allatoona. There are some days where we can't make it on the water until late evening and that's ok...the crappie will still bite in the late evening! The lake has cleared up from the rains we had a couple of weeks ago and it should be smooth sailing for most everyone who gets out on the water. We have been hitting our summer time brush piles anywhere from 16' - 18' deep with crappie suspended in that 12' - 14' area all the way down to the bottom of the brush. The number one way to hook up with a crappie is to spider rig minnows this time of year. If you get into an area with brush and you don't have Forward Facing Sonar (FFS) just drop a buoy marker in that area and drop those minnows down between 10' and 14', put the rods in the rod holder and wait...you will get bit. Everything is biting minnows in the summer time from Crappie to Bass to Catfish. We are also catching some nice active Crappie throwing jigs into the brush piles and slowly swimming a small profile jig like the Red Rooster Dagger in and around the brush. The Dagger was specifically designed for this time of year! It is a small 1.5" split tail crappie jig that was designed to entice finicky Black Crappie that are feeding on smaller baitfish. The Dagger has been our go to jig for summer time Allatoona crappie for 2+ years now and it gets bit when nothing else will. We pair the Dagger with a 1/24th or 1/16th oz. jig head as we want to keep the profile as small as possible. If they crappie get real finicky we will use a 1/32nd oz. jig head and put a small split shot about 12" - 18" above the jig to improve the drop but not add to much size to the jig. Our favorite colors this time of year are UV Shad, UV Smoke, Watermelon Red, Motor Oil Red, Watermelon Ghost and Mayfly. We like those colors as they are natural, translucent colors in the light stain to clear Allatoona waters.
Make sure to check out our past June Lake Allatoona Crappie Fishing Reports to see what we were doing this time last year!
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Look at this MONSTER CRAPPIE that Larry caught Spider Rigging Minnows over brush piles! And of course Larry didn't have scales or a ruler so no one knows exactly how big this crappie actually was. We are guessing it was well over 2+ Pounds...what a tank!
Jackson with a nice Allatoona slab caught while dangling some minnows over brush!
A Nice 12" Allatoona Black Crappie on the new "Contrail" color that has been really good in clear water.
A Solid 14" Allatoona Black Crappie caught on the Dagger crappie jig in the UV Smoke Color.
Spider Rigging Crappie Minnows over Brush and Structure is a surefire way to put slabs in the boat in the summer.
