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Air Temp: High: 86 - Low: 70
Wind: 5-10 mph
Lake Level: 841' (Click Here For Current Water Level)
Water Surface Temp: 76 - 78
Water Clarity: Clear
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:
The past couple of weeks have been up and down quite a bit with all of the rains. We have had some bonified monsoons of late that has dropped 5-6" of rain on Lake Allatoona which has raised the lake to above full pool. The rains that we would have expected in March/April didn't come until the last two weeks of May! The heavy rains have not only raised the lake but have also pushed a lot of debris and trash in the water, especially the creeks. We saw several full size trees floating as well as a few floating docks. Keep your eyes peeled because there are logs and limbs all over the lake right now. The crappie fishing is about to be in full summer pattern within a few weeks. The water temp is already hitting the 78 degree mark by the afternoon so any shallow crappie will be heading to those deeper brush piles and structure sitting around 16' - 18'. It's no secret we will rely heavily on spider rigging brush piles and Forward Facing Sonar (FFS) from June through October to find structure and determine what depth the crappie are sitting. For you folks that don't have FFS...it's a tool like anything else you can still catch plenty of crappie without it. You will just need to rely more on 2D Sonar, Sidescan and downscan to find structure and determine if there are fish on found structure. Use the old floating buoy marker technique once you locate the brush. Throw a marker in and around the brush...set your minnows down around 12' - 14' and you should be able to catch a few slabs. This time of year we will mainly fish in the early morning hours up until 1100 as that is typically when the bite trails off when the sun gets high. Also there will be an uptick in summer time boat traffic that makes things a little more difficult. We will still fish in the afternoons and evenings but the most productive times are early mornings. A small jig like the Red Rooster Dagger is our go to jig this time of year because of it's small subtle profile. We will slow roll a natural color Dagger in and around brush and stucture for those active crappie suspended over brush. The Dagger is also our style of choice for shooting docks with a 1/32nd jig head. 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 May Lake Allatoona Crappie Fishing Reports to see what we were doing this time last year!
Red Rooster makes custom jig heads, under spins and we can color match any jig color that you want or need. We love talking about crappie fishing so we are here to help. We also do a Facebook Live most Friday nights unless something comes up.
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A couple of nice Allatoona Crappie caught Spider Rigging Minnows over brush piles.
The Red Rooster Dagger in the BlueGrass Color is a great color for stained and clear water!
Red Rooster is cooking up something new! Early testing of our new curly tail crappie jig has been promising! The color shown above is the Silver Bullet curly tail.
A Nice Allatoona Black Crappie caught on the Silver Bullet color curly tail crappie jig.
Another nice Allatoona Crappie caught on the new curly tail crappie jig in UV Smoke!
