Thread: G3 was right

Originally Posted by crappieseeker

yes snake, I have caught crappie that were seemingly right on the top of the water. Sometimes as soon as my jig hits the water it gets nailed before it falls more than a foot. Sometimes I will be fishing a float n jig and they will just hit it by it just sitting out in the water. You never know about those crappie. It is something different at different times. I totally agree with you on them being there or not. Usually if they are there and biting I will know it fairly quickly. I always tell people that you can not catch fish if they are not there. Sometimes when the water is extremely cold they might be there and not bite til the water warms a little, but like you said, most of the time you will catch something if they are there.

for many years. I finished in Tidewater where the tide fluctuated the river very strange. The fishing conditions. I've caught a lot of facial and outgoing tides when the river was flowing more so based you probably know when the tide is coming in. You had no current at all. Don't know if you've ever finished in a river that was controlled by Tidewater also in the rivers the crappie would hit either early morning or late afternoon just before the sun went down. This is happen for many many years when I was fishing in the Portland, Oregon area before they put the last damn in the Columbia River. We had high water in the spring, which was very good it made more spawning beds in the crappie love to get up into the trees and grass in feed IE used to fish by a big culvert pipe that flooded back into a lagoon. Well although trash fish went in there and spawned during the spring, and high waters when the tide went out. It shot the water back out the pipe and all the crappie would come in to feed because the minnow would be coming out there by the zillions they would not hit jigs we caught most of the fish on cut bait. Very funny about use and crappie for bait . It is one of the deadliest things that you could use on them.

I have never crappie fished water controlled by ocean tides. However I fish rivers that are controlled by dams. Most of the time the water atleast has to be moving in one direction or the other for me to catch fish. If it is at a stand still or moving too fast then I generally do not do well. If it is moving slowly or average I catch them. I usually have better luck with the water going out but on a few occasions incoming water was extremely productive. Speaking of a culvert, there is an area that use to be one of my favorite spots where they pump water into the fields for duck hunting and then late winter early spring they pump it back out into the main river. I use to limit out and catch anywhere from 30 to 100 crappie on a regular basis. However they added another culvert and filled in the area some and it is nowhere near as productive. It has also become to popular of a place now and so many people fish it that it is not worth tha hassle. Use to be a great place though.