Thread: Summer crappie patterns

For me the summer pattern is really simple- I just wish winter and spring was as consistent! So here it is- find wood in 10-14 fow with fish on it. Drop shot a minnow and pull up crappie. My partner no showed this morning so I bought a 1/2 lb of Arkansas jigs ( from that little honor system bait shop on Hwy. 51 near Coweta in case you don't know about that- 24/7 minnows) and got on the first pile at 7:30am. This brush runs from 9' to 14' and today they lived on the deep end. Caught 54 on that pile then hit the next one maybe 150' away and caught 20 there before TM back to #1 and finishing up there. I started off dropping to the bottom and that's where they were until it got hot and sunny around 11am. When I ran the locator over the brush I noticed that they had moved up and were suspended at 6-9'. As soon as I shortened my drop BAM! And I caught em at 6' in 14fow til I ran out of minners. Quit at 12:30 with 93 on the clicker. Caught the last one on my Oologah Orange hair jig, trying to go for 100, but it took me 10 minutes to get the one jig bite on a pile that was on fire for bait so me and Miss Beazley shut r down. Cleaned 18 and measured and weighed the top 7 . Pretty typical size for summer in my live well except for one 14" fish weighing 1.31 lbs. plus 3 @ 13" and 3 @ 12". Haven't seen a 14" fish since May. Top 7 went 7.01 lbs . The last 4 trips were just over 6 lbs each time so it was a good day on the water with my dog. Now if I could just figure out a winter and spring pattern!