Where do they go???

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Originally Posted by electrik chicken

CrappiePro is right I fish lk Enterprise before and after the spawn in "sunken" cover at least 10 ft of water Iam catching fish right now over that cover fishing 2-4 ft deep.erly and late. ONE INTERESTING THING Ive noticed AFTER the spawn on this lake and Chcot they seem to want the jig DEAD STILL !!!

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Exactly what I found out yesterday. I caught 22 yesterday after fishing two hours and nothing. I finally found a couple brush piles in 10 fow on a drop off. I backed off in the deeper water and cast past the brush and when I was over the brush I would retrive sooo slow then THUMP. This works good after the sun gets high and bright, but early AM or cloudy days they seemed scattered in 10 to 12 FOW.
When it gets summertime hot, I actually go back to the winter pattern fishing deep brush in 20--30 fow or look for suspended fish deep. Trouble is, I hate the heat too. BTW, I am catching much smaller fish now that the spawn is mostly over.

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Originally Posted by RCC

It's easy to find structure this way because said Bandit will be hung up in said structure. It just costs about 5 bucks a pop to find each brush top. You ain't lived till you get 4 or 5 bandits hung up at the same time on a windy day:D

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RCC When I read this post I laughed for at least 5 minutes, maybe 6 minutes but I know water was coming out of my eyes when i got done. Man thats funny stuff:D

That reminds me of something that happened to a friend at Horseshoe. He had just gotten on the water and was getting poles out to do a little trollin. He was getting the 5th rod out(had the bait in the water) when he drifted through a school of those big hybrids over there. Keep in mind he had just bought that 5th rod on the way to the lake. Anywho, before he can get the last rod in the holder 3 rods go down hard. He starts scrambling to get rods out of the holders. SNAP!!! goes one BnM and SNAP!!! goes the second BnM. As he is trying to get the third under some sort of control, clank clank PLOP there went the new rod over the side of the boat.

In less than 10 minutes he had lost a brand new rod over the side and had 2 BnM's snapped about mid rod and no fish in the boat. He put the boat back on the trailer and went to the house.

It was funny....after I read it I realized......I've lived!

use the search feature to look up "crappie by degrees" it will give you a good starting point for any time of the year.

Thanks for all the advice guys. I went to the Ouchita River yesterday and found some pretty decent fish. One was a sure fire SLAB!! I owe it all to yall and my very sensitive jig pole.:D I fished about 5-6 foot deep around cypress knees and a little bit of 2 pole trolling in the middle between the trees.

Oh and RCC that was too funny. I was like CP laughed until I had tears. My wife thought I was going crazy!!!:D:D

guys I like to fish around 6-8ft deep around the drop on a creek . The more structure under you the better. I will fish spider rig with all my jigs tipped with crappie minnows. And Very slow. When the shad start schooling I use my big jigs and start trolling alittle faster. Good luck fishing,catch and keep what you want to eat and release the rest for everybody else.

You know, I have just about decided its about time that I break down and get some rod holders or Hi Teks as yall call 'em since that seems to be what alot of yall are using. Being limited to only 2 poles isn't overly successful and it wears the arms out quickly. If I do get them I hope I don't wind up like Rcc or soswine's friend but knowing my luck it will probably happen. Not trying to make fun of you guys, those were really great stories.:D

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Originally Posted by deerducksdogs

You know, I have just about decided its about time that I break down and get some rod holders .... If I do get them I hope I don't wind up like Rcc or soswine's friend but knowing my luck it will probably happen. .:D

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Multiple pole thing works good. Everyone that's done it will vouch that the hang up stories are all true because it happens to everyone. When I first started with 4 poles, I was as busy as a 3 legged dog scratching fleas. Now it's pretty easy to spider rig with 8. When my wife goes, I will put her up in front in the hot seat with 8 and fish 4 out the back myself. It get's pretty funny watching her when several of those poles take off at the same time. The most cranks I have run at 1 time is 7, pushing 2 and pulling 5. This hasn't worked out for us so we mainly stick with pulling 4 or 5. Right now we're single pole fishing and will break out the cranks before too long. Hope you find the fish soon.

By the way Hi-Tek is a brand of rod holder. I've never used those but everyone that has likes them. I personally use the drift masters on the front and some home brew holders on the back that are similar to tite-lok holders.

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Originally Posted by RCC

It's easy to find structure this way because said Bandit will be hung up in said structure. It just costs about 5 bucks a pop to find each brush top. You ain't lived till you get 4 or 5 bandits hung up at the same time on a windy day:D

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I meant to you mark the brush with your GPS:p. You might want to practice with $2bit$ jigs first; and set your drag light.
A couple of weeks ago, my wife was with me in uncharted water on Greer's. I had four poles out. I had been retying for about an hour already when they started going down 1 at a time. I was already a little aggrevated and counting them as they went down just seemed natural. She got a kick out of it. And was proud that i remembered this was fun and left the wordy dirds at the ramp.
"1...2...3...4 Oh that last one is a fish!":eek:
Try having 3 hung up and a 15" crappie on the 4th while the boat is still moving.
DP