Caught a few Saturday. No giants but all were 12 and 1/4 to 14 and 1/4 inches long. Ended up with 4 pounds of fillets. Looking forward to the hot fall bite!
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waynesworld
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Any details ? lake was it night or day? Would love to get in some crappie in but have never been successful
Any details ? lake was it night or day? Would love to get in some crappie in but have never been successful
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Started at daylight. I've never done much night fishing. Only tried it for crappie once. Used a floating light, but all we caught were slimy catfish. I was spider rigging Saturday. That's the easiest way to catch them in my opinion. Once you learn to identify them on your graph, you just set your baits at the depth the fish are, or a little above them. It works, except on those days when they just will not bite. You can be in the best spot with fish covering the graph, but if they aren't feeding, I can't make them bite.
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Started at daylight. I've never done much night fishing. Only tried it for crappie once. Used a floating light, but all we caught were slimy catfish. I was spider rigging Saturday. That's the easiest way to catch them in my opinion. Once you learn to identify them on your graph, you just set your baits at the depth the fish are, or a little above them. It works, except on those days when they just will not bite. You can be in the best spot with fish covering the graph, but if they aren't feeding, I can't make them bite.
fairchaser
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Nice mess for August. It's hard for me to get out after July 4, but I love the spider rigging approach and I'm set up that way. I haven't perfected identifying crappie on the graph. Often I just see lots of fish all the time. Any tips on ID feeding crappie?
Nice mess for August. It's hard for me to get out after July 4, but I love the spider rigging approach and I'm set up that way. I haven't perfected identifying crappie on the graph. Often I just see lots of fish all the time. Any tips on ID feeding crappie?
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I can't identify feeding crappie but it's usually easy to identify crappie (when it's not spring). They will all be suspended at approximately the same depth. Sometimes it will almost be a solid line on your graph. I think bluball is the crappie guru here. Maybe he will chime in and help with some graph reading tips. I don't know a whole lot. I just look for a bunch of fish suspended at a certain depth, mark them, drift off and get set up at that depth, and come back through fishing. I'd probably catch a lot more if I really knew the secrets.fairchaser":28dvi332 said:
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moondawg
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Nice mess of crappie!
Nice mess of crappie!
waynesworld
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Thanks for the info, I am still learning how to read the electronics. I may try to get a spider rig sometime and try it out. I wondered if how much people really used them.
Thanks for the info, I am still learning how to read the electronics. I may try to get a spider rig sometime and try it out. I wondered if how much people really used them.
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nice
nice
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very nice. not to hijack the thread but i have a couple images of what crappie look like.
these were post spawn white crappie. theyll stack up over the first cover they come to near deep water. this was right on the edge of the creek channel in a stump field. keep in mind these are shot with an iphone and the cheapest unit garmin makes. the down view is hard to see.
down view shot more spread out but still vertically stacked. you can see the stumps in this pic.
very nice. not to hijack the thread but i have a couple images of what crappie look like.
these were post spawn white crappie. theyll stack up over the first cover they come to near deep water. this was right on the edge of the creek channel in a stump field. keep in mind these are shot with an iphone and the cheapest unit garmin makes. the down view is hard to see.
down view shot more spread out but still vertically stacked. you can see the stumps in this pic.
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this is a screen shot of a brush pile with mixed crappie and bluegill on it. around docks and marinas can be a good place to find stuff like this. this is a second gen garmin 93sv chirp screen shot. i had to cut some of it out, says file was too large.
this is a screen shot of a brush pile with mixed crappie and bluegill on it. around docks and marinas can be a good place to find stuff like this. this is a second gen garmin 93sv chirp screen shot. i had to cut some of it out, says file was too large.
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No hijack at all! Thanks for posting those images!
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No hijack at all! Thanks for posting those images!
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Wish i knew some secrets,suspended fish is something i still need to work on.Only thing i know about suspended fish is i have caught active fish in all depths,sometimes the fish in a certain depth are the only ones that will bite.Im a structure fishermen,but sometimes drops humps and points are hotspots for me when the weather gets warm.The livescope is the best tool for trying to identify fish in the water.Stripe and smaller crappie look alot when on crappie beds,usually if they are more active and a bunch of them they are a stripe.Away from structure stripe will stack and move around in a pole formation where the crappie seperate more in open water.Big crappie look alot like a small bass on the livescope.Almost didnt fish a bed last winter cause i thought all i was seeing was a small bass on it,decided to fish it anyway and caught a 2lb crappie.Spurhunter":y6c2y5xu said:
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crappie will suspend and move a lot after the water warms to around 50 deg in early, early spring. from the end of january to the end of march usually. they may move from brushpile to brushpile a couple of times. i started pulling jigs a couple of years ago and after taking Rsimms crappie class, learned a few more things. the rest of the year im casting to them. i havent spider rigged in quite a while.
crappie will sometimes hang to almost any cover. ive caught them under bouys, bridge pilons, and limbs no bigger than your wrist that fell into the water.
also note on the second pic, the arch that is cut in half, is what it looks like when the fish is on the edge of the cone. you can fairly judge where the fish is located in relation to the xducer by using the depth and cone angle info.
crappie will suspend and move a lot after the water warms to around 50 deg in early, early spring. from the end of january to the end of march usually. they may move from brushpile to brushpile a couple of times. i started pulling jigs a couple of years ago and after taking Rsimms crappie class, learned a few more things. the rest of the year im casting to them. i havent spider rigged in quite a while.
crappie will sometimes hang to almost any cover. ive caught them under bouys, bridge pilons, and limbs no bigger than your wrist that fell into the water.
also note on the second pic, the arch that is cut in half, is what it looks like when the fish is on the edge of the cone. you can fairly judge where the fish is located in relation to the xducer by using the depth and cone angle info.
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Nice shots,were are them stumps at[emoji23]i have been organizeing by waypoint symbols.Telephone is a small thick bed,dinner bell is a big not thick bed,star is a big thick bed,deer is a average stump,double deer tracks is above average stump,tree symbol is a treeWTM":3tgbym3r said:
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Twra beds are this symbolbluball":33z8c24b said:Nice shots,were are them stumps at[emoji23]i have been organizeing by waypoint symbols.Telephone is a small thick bed,dinner bell is a big not thick bed,star is a big thick bed,deer is a average stump,double deer tracks is above average stump,tree symbol is a treeWTM":33z8c24b said:
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They will move up and down a creek with rain also.Have also saw them position themselves in the front of the creeks when they are pulling heavy current to ambush a easy meal.I do it all,single pole,cast rig,longline and pull cranks,they all have there place.One of my best friends is a longlining guide,longlining isnt one of my strengths but he has helped me alot.The rest i have learned mostly on my own,its took awhile but crappie is all i fish for.WTM":3f5sjk89 said:
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fairchaser
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I thought I had heard it all Blubal, but I haven't heard of longlining crappie. How is that done?
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I thought I had heard it all Blubal, but I haven't heard of longlining crappie. How is that done?
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i imagine he is talking about doug. doug uses trolling rods with reel counters. i think he uses cranks, planer boards. you throw out line until it gets to the length you need for a certain boat speed, which sets your running depth; or with planer boards which sets the depth.
i do it the rsimms way, basically 6 rods with jigs. the jig weight and pull speed along with 6 lb line sets your depth. no special rods needed. a set of 5 1/2, a set of 7 and a set of 10 or 11 footers. 6 rod holders on the back or they make a trolling bar rig if you dont want individual rod holders.
this is the info that got me started in pulling jigs.
http://www.magnoliacrappieclub.com/arti ... Lining.pdf
i imagine he is talking about doug. doug uses trolling rods with reel counters. i think he uses cranks, planer boards. you throw out line until it gets to the length you need for a certain boat speed, which sets your running depth; or with planer boards which sets the depth.
i do it the rsimms way, basically 6 rods with jigs. the jig weight and pull speed along with 6 lb line sets your depth. no special rods needed. a set of 5 1/2, a set of 7 and a set of 10 or 11 footers. 6 rod holders on the back or they make a trolling bar rig if you dont want individual rod holders.
this is the info that got me started in pulling jigs.
http://www.magnoliacrappieclub.com/arti ... Lining.pdf
