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When I fish in tree tops there is usually several holes in the top that have no visible limbs in sight. I insert my line until I find one that goes to the bottom or I will fish to the outer edges of the top, right next to the visible brush. A lot of times you can catch them before you bottom out. These tops I fish in are probably 15-25 feet deep, entire huge trees that have fell in the river or creeks, so you have a lot of outlying brush underwater that produces crappie.Originally Posted by blairarnold
Some of these trees cover a large area in the water-at times I can drive my boat around the tops to look at it on my depth finder to see how far out it lies.
The side lead you mentioned--when you drop the lead in the water with a weight on the bottom the lead will follow the weight and the main line to the bottom. Once down there I raise it slowly a couple of feet or until I find the crappie. If it hits something, drop it down and move your line around until you work it out. Most of the time the crappie on the hook will keep you from hanging up. It takes practice to figure out how to fish in the brush. If it is to bad than move to the other edge. When your rig is stationary the minnow moves about on the lead line, but I also tempt them by raising it up and down.
I am not going to constantly lose rigs in heavy brush that is impossible to fish and I have found a couple like that. At times you can break off a couple of limbs to allow you to drop down. I use 10 lb. test line, so it is pretty strong and wire hooks will bend also when pulled real hard. Some hooks will not bend, than either you break the hook or line.
This works for me and believe it or not I do not lose hardly any rigs, maybe 2-3 a month. I have had big bass or cats to break the line and they are in the brush also--Watch out for runners they will tangle you up in the brush
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