:Rofl That makes two of us!
C.J.
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Learning to control your tongue is the toughest thing to do. That's why I am posting this I haven't figured it out yet!
Keep your hook in the water rather than switching colors every 5 minutes and you'll catch more..
Crappie expend a huge amount of energy just before and during the spawn, which is nearly upon us. To feed that energy they will bite anything that moves and practically try to jump in the boat. You should have no problem catching 'em for the next couple of months. It will make little or no difference what color, size, shape, ect you are using....just as long as they can see it. Just find a crowd and throw anything out there. The spawn is my least favorite time to fish because of the crowds of sometimes fanatic and rude fishermen who have been waiting all year for the chance to catch Crappie. I hate having to park a quarter mile down the road from the ramp after waiting in line for 45 minutes to launch the boat and I absolutely will not fight the crowds on the water for space to fish....preferring the open water on the edge of the spawning grounds to catch the females comming and going. Boat traffic will be unreal....you will think your in the middle of a bass trournament. Right after the spawn is over is another matter.....the Crappie will be extremely tired, exhausted and thin as a razorblade with eyeballs. They will be much harder at that point to trick into biting and that's when the "sport challenge" of catchin'em comes back into play. That is when the seasonal fishermen will pack their boats back up until the next years spawn and the hardcore Crappieholics will start having the water to themselves again.
I LOVE crappie fishing in the summer!
The hotter the water, the more they must eat every day!
Plus no folks on the water!
But still... Hair, Plastic, Rubber, Minner,
They don't know the differance.
Crappie eat silverish/whiteish shad. That's what they live on.. The eat them every day. !!EVERY SINGLE DAY!!
Is there any reason you shouldn't be able to catch fish on a silverish/whiteish jig daily? Or.. A live minnow?
I hear folks say "Yea.. They wanted jigs today not minnows"
Whatever..
These people that still say the crappie are about to start biting crack me up. Someone at work asked me if the were biting yet, I told him that they dont stop biting and he looked at me kinda funny. He then asked my what time of day they are biting and I told him whenever they get hungry.