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    Default Help! Cypress Trees!


    Ok......Let me start out like this. I need some help because I don't have any idea if what im doing is right, wrong, or somewhere in between. I fish a local lake I assume it is no different than any other shallow lake with cypress trees, except for one thing! I can't catch fish on it! Best I can tell the lake is man-made with a channel around the bank a little deeper that the rest and one deep hole on one end of it. So, I fish the trees, can someone tell me how they would fish it.
    Crappie are snobby..... Why can't they be easy to catch...Like bass?

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    Are you talking about Mallard?
    It's CRAPPIE season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dodgeman View Post
    Are you talking about Mallard?
    How'd you guess? LOL!
    Crappie are snobby..... Why can't they be easy to catch...Like bass?

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    joef, i sent you a pm.



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    Well don't send PMs. Others can use the help too.

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    i just told him the word was spinnerbaits around cypress trees. most here are crappie fishermen so that wouldn't interest most.



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    Yeah thanks for your response sir. Im kinna new and just needed a few pointers. Does everyone start out far from the tree or go straight to the base? I guess what im trying to say is how do you "work" a tree?
    Crappie are snobby..... Why can't they be easy to catch...Like bass?

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    I usually start fishing away from the tree first, theres lots of knees and old tops laying around the bases of the tree that you can't see, I try to fish all of this all the way up to the base of the tree. I like to find the tops that are laying around in the water. They usually hold more fish. This is where a good pair of polarized glasses come in handy. And just because you fished one side of the limb, doesn't mean they ain't hiding on the other side. When we catch a fish around a top, we'll spend several minutes fishing every little spot we can find in it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dblevens View Post
    I usually start fishing away from the tree first, theres lots of knees and old tops laying around the bases of the tree that you can't see, I try to fish all of this all the way up to the base of the tree. I like to find the tops that are laying around in the water. They usually hold more fish. This is where a good pair of polarized glasses come in handy. And just because you fished one side of the limb, doesn't mean they ain't hiding on the other side. When we catch a fish around a top, we'll spend several minutes fishing every little spot we can find in it.
    AWESOME INFO!! I like using jigs alot but Im wondering too if you guys that use jigs use a float with them or just dip em' and also where do you start as far as depth? Hope im not intruding I don't want secrets or anything Im just soakin this UP... thanks
    Crappie are snobby..... Why can't they be easy to catch...Like bass?

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    many cypress trees have a ring or "donut" of roots a couple of feet around them. they might not be next to the tree but in these roots. Still I would rather find some submerged limbs broken off by the ice storm away from the tree trunk.
    Crappie bite twice a day. 15 minutes before I get there and 10 minutes after I leave.
    The sheep live in fear of the wolf but in the end it's the shepherd that eats them.
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