Summertime Crappie Tactics

**constructskeeter** · 06-15-2013, 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by creekslick

I pull crank baits during the summer, the hotter the better

How do those cranks pull through brush tops though???

I find the brush and vertical jig around it myself and lot of the time use minners with better results. I know a lot of guys that bass fish who like to crankbait fish and about every trip they lose about $10 worth of tackle with those big treble hooks snagging up. It's hard enough at times to get your jig loose but since it's one hook and your not moving very fast with a soft tipped pole I can usually get them back and don't lose nearly as much $ if I do break a jig off, that's just me though.

**Mcnewlane** · 06-15-2013, 04:51 PM

weve taken minnows every time weve been out at night and it seems like they wont touch em. I mean we have caught 2 or 3 on minnows but jigs is where its at. just toss em out about 10 ft or so and let em fall slowly back under the rod tip and WHAM! Just orderd a few rod holders. Going to try and get my boat rigged up to drag a few jigs around slowly over the drops during the day. or even have more rods in the water at night while nitestalkin. Anybody tried fishing under lights at Greers Ferry? Thinking about going next week. Might catch a few crappie or hybrids or something. I tried conway at night. Not a nibble one. And yea...mosquitos were thick.

**Ztkirkpatric** · 06-15-2013, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by Mcnewlane

weve taken minnows every time weve been out at night and it seems like they wont touch em. I mean we have caught 2 or 3 on minnows but jigs is where its at. just toss em out about 10 ft or so and let em fall slowly back under the rod tip and WHAM! Just orderd a few rod holders. Going to try and get my boat rigged up to drag a few jigs around slowly over the drops during the day. or even have more rods in the water at night while nitestalkin. Anybody tried fishing under lights at Greers Ferry? Thinking about going next week. Might catch a few crappie or hybrids or something. I tried conway at night. Not a nibble one. And yea...mosquitos were thick.

I stayed out all night last night fishing, didn't get a bite until shortly before daylight. I was using jigs but managed to catch a few shad with a Dip net as they circled my light, once I started using the shad we started catching fish.

**Conwayslabber** · 06-15-2013, 07:12 PM

Originally Posted by Lkconwayguru

Lake Conway is not the lake you want to try and fish at night with a light, I guess if you were hungry and had nothing to eat it would be, the only thing biting at night on Conway during the summer months is bass, catfish, and mosquitoes. Heavy on the mosquitoes. Lake Conway is full of midges or as us Lake Conway fisherman like to call them stump gnats, they will keep you full and your appetite under control, they will swarm you and your boat at night, even more so when there is a light involved. They get so thick that you can't breath without inhaling a ton of them. Just run across Conway at night and try to carry on a conversation with your buddy and you will see why you will have no appetite.

You tried vanilla extract for the gnats? That seems be working the best for us bow fishing at night time.

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