Thread: New to crappie fishing and MS.

Get your rig'a ready. When the water starts coming up go to the landing and go to your right. Fish up and down that bank and the flats. Spring fish will move up that creek and out into those flats as the water comes up. Go now and walk it with a camera. Take pictures and get a picture in your mind of how the land lays and where cover is. That way you can have a good idea of where to fish when covered with water. Once it starts there will be a bunch of Waders out there fishing.

Welcome.....you'll get educated real quick if you hang around here....some of that education MUIGHT be about fishin. At Enid, I see folks bank fishin in the Wallace/Hubbard creek area. That's just to the left of the ramp at Wallace and up and around the first cove. Other than that, I've not paid much attention to "bankers"....especially Wannabe. Scout the lake NOW to see where good structure is gonna be when the water comes up. Make good mental notes, or actually map it out on paper. It looks real different when the water comes up. Again, welcome to the site and the lakes. You'll get ate up with this crappie thingy real fast!!!

They also fish on the sides of the boat ramp at Water Valley when the water rises. I watched an older lady catch three in a row one day when I launched my boat in her fishing hole. She didn't mind and neither the the fish. She kept on hauling them in

Welcome from Eastern Arkansas. In a month or so you won't have any trouble telling where the fish are. The good spots will be marked with people.

Thanks for the ideas everyone. Great idea about taking some pictures of the structure now that it's exposed, gonna do that tomorrow I think. So guess it's just a bit too early then huh?

Get a hand held gps and go mark you some spots while the water is down

Its fun marking and fishing other folks stuff but more fun to catch em off a bed u made. Go down and make you some stake beds and pull some brush out and stake it down. These lakes need more folks trying to improve the habitat. Plus it will reap a lot of benefit for your freezer. As far as right now, you can catch them at the spillway. Go down the river where the water is not so swift. Find some eddie water and pitch a float and jig, twitch it, and let it sit. They will be a few ft out from the rocks so fish 16 to 18 inches deep. Lots of folks snagging this time of year and they will keep them run out. Try and find a quiet place. good luck. Ur life is bout to change forever

Welcome from Illinois and good luck.