Weather
~0° morning, heavy steam toward Honey Creek, fog; hard N/NE wind after east wind/snow. Multi-day cold dumping lake heat — shad kill extended; possible bank wash-ups. 60–70° days possible next week.
Crappie with Haydn (south end)
Fish ~30 feet, on or within a foot of bottom. Moonshine Lucky Bug (chartreuse/pearl — matches threadfin) on 1/8 oz white/black two-tone red-eye head; new Fish Lucke cable-guard heads help in dock brush. Trimmed ~¼ of 2½" bug body for more tail action. Posted Microspin Crappie rod video on the Facebook group. Saw 2–4" threadfin in thermal shock; gulls working them — one of the bigger kills in a while, likely another ~two weeks unless big warm-up.
Outlook
White Bass/Crappie in Elk, Spring, Neosho after this cold. Mid-February — ~two months from ~April 15 Crappie spawn kickoff. Cold packs Crappie in huge open-water schools (Shangri-La toward dam, coves/bluffs) — slow swimming minnow through them for easy limits. Watch sonar for non-shad schools.
Thanks
KGVE, GRDA, VIP Grand Lake, Haydn, Owen, fishlucke.com, Grove Walmart / dealers.