I didn't get any good reports (word of mouth) from John Martin at all this year. I'm guessing they might have gone down the river too? Blue Lake by far was the best, but the drought in that area was just too killer. I'm still sad about that :'(. Nee Noshe was another good crappie lake.. Well, it WAS :'(. Brush Hollow coughed up a few to a few forum members during early Spring, as I recall. Bonny, well... Tell you what.. I'm thinking I'm one of the few that got crappie at Bonny this year and even reported. I'm sure a handful of other anglers out there got into the crappie there, but kept it quiet. Only that one trip though and the rest of the guys I went with didn't want to go back. They said that trip was enough.
Got to be honest though, didn't really target crappie all too often this year. Actually, only that one Bonny trip and the fat crappie lady sang. The rest of the time, I was just fartin around catching whatever was biting. Oh well.. Maybe next year. My best guess is if y'all want crappie, I'd try probing the many smaller waters around the front range. But if you're looking for crappie of real decent size, there's no place like a very very far drive east... Hopefully in the future, our old known crappie fisheries come back.
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