Thread: Long Lining for crappie

Oh by the way, welcome aboard.

I use a combination of SR and LL when trolling..........I have 8 poles on the bow 10' 13' 16' 20 ' in two 4 rod holders mounted on each side of the bow.
This setup gives me a "wall" of bait presentations fairly evenly spaced out in front of the boat about 8 feet. My fiance longlines out the back with 6 13' poles......
If they are there we dont miss many LOL.....
Ill post a pic of my setup later.....

How can you guys help but catch fish! You strain the water. We take our crappies up here too with only the only line and one lure at a time that we are allowed in Minnesota. Even at that we are still overharvesting a lot of our wild fish stocks, including crappies in a lot of places. You all must have some really awesome recruitment to stand up to that kind of fishing pressure.

Pic of my bow setup

Eric, I'm confused...your post count says 247...but yet you say you found this site only 3 days ago?

Anyhow, LL'g, like trolling can be a great way to cover a lot of territory and locate where the fish are concentrated. Once there, a good gps unit showing your track and ability to mark waypoints is essential to keep you on the fish....especially if you are out in the middle of a large lake. I suppose you could also throw out markers, however that is like putting out a magnet and drawing others and also something to get your lines caught into. Once you find a concentration of biguns....you may want to try a more concentrated aproach like spider rigging or vertical jigging to stay in the zone...with less down time.

HHD

this from 2010

Absolutely set your waypoints. Crappies hold and move between some pretty insignificant structural markers, as often as not little more than where currents (and natural lakes have them, too) coming together concentrate forage and/or comfort levels. GPS has become one of the best tools for locating and relocating the mobile schools ever added to a fisherman's arsenal. When added to lake maps and depth finders, you have a nearly unbeatable combination of tools that will enable a fisherman to avoid skunks nearly everytime, provided you learn how to use them and then do it.