im a newbie Norman Slabman

**Norman slabman** · 12-31-2011, 07:25 PM

hi everyone,i live on Lake Norman N.C.and i am wanting to start crappie fishing ,i have been targeting catfish for the past few years.i have a 20 ft' SeaArk with a 150 johnson,equipped with a minnkota wireless co-pilot trolling motor and a Lowrance hd7 graph.I have great success power drifting for cats and white perch which i use for catfish bait.my questions would be do crappie always hang out with schools of perch or do they school by themselves from time to time.when i am perch fishing i usually pick up a couple of crappie,a couple of largemouth bass along with the perch.they are mixed in with the perch because i have caught all three species at the same time on a 5 hook sabiki rig several times.do i need to target different areas.the perch are almost always in the middle of the creeks closest to the main river channells.this is in the fall and winter months.