Quote Originally Posted by crappieseeker View Post
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.
where I told you that pipe was in the water used to come flowing and blowing out there used to be 35 to 40 people shoulder to shoulder fishing for crappie you talk about a madhouse. It was a lot of fun especially when three or four of us would get tangled up in we had fish it was a real home. Dinner but everybody had a lot of fun catching fish. I can remember several occasions that me and my friend filled. A small washtub. The type like you used to take your kids and give them a bath them. I bet you there was a good hundred and 40 pounds of fish inside that Taub I would laugh at the people trying to drag it up that steep bank, the fish would be sliding all over the place, those were the good days I couldn't tell you how many fish were in that Taub I haven't got a clue what I know there was a least 4 or 5 gallon buckets in that Taub in these fish were not big they were like 6 to 8 inch fish so it took a ton of them to feel that Taub.