Quote Originally Posted by Opie1 View Post
In my opinion, July and August is the best time to crappie fish for numbers. Your Alabama crappie will be doing the same thing as my Ohio crappie this time of year. Go on your gps/sonar and look for the shallow mid-lake humps. That's where all the crappie are congregated this time of year. We did 110 last Saturday, 160 the Sat before, 151 the Saturday before, 189 the weekend before that and on and on.
They start migrating from the shorelines after the spawn which is the end of May in Ohio.
They migrate out to the mid-lake hump and after July 1st, it's on!
We anchor on our spot right before sunrise and don't move till we leave or want to go swimming to cool off. We are in the middle and watch all the boats pounding the shoreline and trees like it's April. Fools I tell you.

Our main spot is in 12.5' fow and now it a bit less than 10 fow with the water being down. Surrounding area are 15-20 fow. Forget the shoreline and get out in the middle humps!

I've been shore fishing after work 5X in the last week and all I have to show for it is 3 bass. I caught 4 bass, a dozen perch, gills, 4 channel cats and 110 crappie from the boat on Saturday.
I have found that if you find them you can catch crazy numbers this time of year. I’m just not good at finding them.


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