Not a crappie, but...

[TreednNC]

Heres what a pink (or before I beat the paint off) head, black chenille, and blue kiptail produced lastnight. Tried striper fishing, to no avail, under a lighted dock. Switched to my crappie rod, as Ive caught some nice crappies while striper fishing, low and behold, a striper, wa-la.

[AtticaFish]

Nice fish! I bet that was fun to haul in on that little pole.

[Black Crow]

Oh heck yeah man! Nice fish.

We catch a lotta stripe when we crappie fish at night. They hang out just below the crappie line. I'd say we get a pretty equal distribution of white bass, yellow bass, crappie, and stripe. One time I actually had a guy as me, "So what exactly are we fishing for" after he had landed a stripe, about 6 yellows, several crappie, and a few more white bass. I explained that we were crappie fishing and these other fish were just boot. He never really got my point...

Anyway, nice fish. Stripe and whites seem to like those darker jigs at night time and that blue tail is always a winner in my opinion.

Stripe that size aren't bad eatin either long as you stay away from the red line.

[TreednNC]

Yep, most of our fish in this lake are 18-24"...........all cookie cutters. With the occasional 27-30"er. Double digits used to be somewhat common, but now they make the paper.

We started out striper fishing this place. When we striper fished, we threw Tsunami Swim Shad and Split Tails, in the 3" Black back version. Occasionally we would catch a crappie on these baits. Bumping them along the bottom under and around the lights. We got the stripers patterened there, to where we knew to throw in, let it go to the bottom, and hop it back. They cant stand it. Well like I said, occasionally we caught crappie. Most were 14" fish. Went back in the day sometimes and caught some fish (has some brush around it). Dock has nice water under it, 15' now, and in the spring and summer, it gets up to about 19'. Lost a black crappie there, I would venture in the 17.5" range. 2.5lbs (are crappies are skinny).

So lastnight after they stripers wouldnt cooperate on said equipment, I tried to catch a crappie on crappie equipment, to no avail, but the one striper liked it.