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Fun to talk about fishing without everyone getting in a tizzy lol. What I would be interested in is seeing th contents of the ice fish stomach. I know here when I clean fish they are packed a lot of times with big shad 3-4 inches. Gonna put the ice fishing on my bucket list. Would love to give it a whirl. We don't get any ice to fish here in Arkansas lol.
a lot of times I will look into the stomach of crappie out West where I come from on the snake River it is a wide variety of stuff that you will fine in their stomach mostly freshwater shrimp in the course of a few insects in a lot of small fish not big like 2 to 3 inch most of the crappie on the smaller size from 9 to 10 inches because of the cycles. but I have never looked into the fish here in Texas and I'm sure that it would be a wide variety in Toledo band as a explosion of all kinds of small fish for them to feed on of course when you were catching 17 inch crappie they are more apt to feed on larger prey but along with the big boys we catch quite a few smaller ones which we find smaller fish in their stomachs for the most part I think the crappie feed on smaller prey I'm sure that this is going to lead into a big discussion between quite a few of us guys on this good subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter
On our local lake its nothing unusual to have crappies in a bucket full of water to keep the fresh while on the ice and have them puke out 1 to 2 inch sunfish fry. Lots at a time too.
Very nice
Nice baits
Ctom that's pretty neat to see that. We don't have many sunfish here
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Here is a pict of the remnants of a fish dr. Nip caught while visiting me here in Arkansas this past fall. You can see that is a 2.5 inch carrot out southern fish do like big baits
This is the picture that got me thinking about the differences between southern and northern fish of the same species. Our white crappies have smaller mouth parts for an equal sized fish. Those whites look like a humpbacked whale ready to screen its dinner.
Really that's crazy, show us some pic. I have only fished here in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas and Louisiana for crappies. Dr. Nip is from Oklahoma and he too uses big baits. Granted these states don't get the ice you do though.
I have cleaned a lot of 10" crappie here in Mo. with a belly full of 4-5" shad. Our average size bait is 3" in length and I have gone up to 4" baits when targeting a big bite. Early spring and late fall there are no small shad for the crappie to feed on.
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this fish has a 4" chunk of plastic in it's mouth
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this 1/4oz tied buck tail was almost 4" in length
the way we(I) fish, bigger is better
it is amazing to read that the mouth on crappie are smaller the further north a person fishes. I guess I need to haul a boat northward and check that out for myself.
great bait comparison BTW