Nice mess of Crappie

[ribka]

A friend of mine goes done and stays at Brownlee Reservoir down by Baker City, OR every year in the month of May.
He always brags how good the crappie fishing is down there so I decided to check it out. Drove down for 2 days of fishing.

Caught a lot of crappies, smallmouth bass. Caught close to 100 crappies a day in 4-5 hours of fishing. Beautiful area and a very good fishery.

Attaching some pics .
Not the best pics Using a cheap point and shoot digital camera

[ribka]

And a few more pics....

Crappie fishing slowed down so decided to catch some big suckers for fun

[ribka]

Coolers from 1st and second day of fishing

[ribka]

Used flies and jigs

Cleaning fish.
An Electric filet  knife really helps


Finished product.

I like eating the eggs too!

[ribka]

Sorry for the double photo post

[Austrian Hunter]

Nice, that looks like you had some good fishn there! 

[ribka]

Fishing was very good. I saw one couple in a boat catch crappies on every cast for over an hour.
they must have caught close to 200 fish.

Good catfishing area too. Did not have time to try for them

Saw a lot of carp spawning in the shallows. Wish I had my bow.

Having a fish fry with the neighbors tonite

[bowhunterforever]

Now thats some good crappie fishing

[rasbo]

hope ya come on the huntwa catfish trip june 3,4,5,6, lyons ferry

[PA BEN]

Do you cook the eggs?

[Machias]

Nice!!!!  That's it I have a couple of friends who go down every spring and rant and rave about how good it is!!  Road trip!!!!    Thanks for the photos!

[BLKBEARKLR]

Do you cook the eggs?

 I used to love fried perch eggs!!!!!!

[PolarBear]

Awesome!  those little turds are a ton of fun to fight with UL gear.  I'm jealous!

[ICEMAN]

I definitely need to try that one of these years, thanks for posting!

[Panic Minnow]

We just got back from there, and caught over 100 crappie, and a few big catfish. It was a blast, but a long drive from Puyallup. I will try and post some pictures of the catfish and crappie. Next time I think we are going to try catfishing a bit more than crappie fishing, as we saw one that was 27Lbs caught. It was pretty big.....

[Dustin07]

nice, thanks for sharing the pics. I've never gone after pan fish specifically before but have kept perch I caught on accident. good eatin.

[ribka]

Do you cook the eggs?

I did in flour and butter and were good

hope ya come on the huntwa catfish trip june 3,4,5,6, lyons ferry

Will try and make it. Would love to go this year


You guys need to go down and check out this fishery.

I am up for a road trip when you guys are. I know camping areas and have an idea where to fish

[Gobble Doc]

Those sucker pics bring back memories of growing up as a kid on the Columbia.  I was stuck in a loop of collecting nightcrawler's and then fishing for those things after school.  I could never get enough. 

[ribka]

I grew up in Wisconsin and as a kid used to catch them ( suckers)  with our hands at night, using a lantern, when they spawned in the local streams. My Mom would can them or my Dad would smoke them. Good eating.

Pretty good fighters and not too difficult to catch