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[Crappitier]

Wow! You were using a 1/64 oz jig in 40' of water! You must have had to wait forever for that jig to fall

kick,

A nice sized split shot a foot above the little jig in deep water. It drops like a rock!

[RiverSlabber]

So they move shallow again in the fall to feed before it starts icing over? Would that hold true in a river where there really arent any really deep holes for them to stay in during winter?

[westsloper]

Here in the Rockies (Western Colorado) the bite has aready moved back shallow. 2 weeks ago we were catching them suspended in 25-40' of water with water temps in the low to mid 70's. Theres been a few cold fronts moving through for the last week and water temps have fallen to the mid to upper 60's. Yesterday afternoon I found slabs in the 10-15' range just off the weed edges and steep banks.

[river scum]

i fish a shallow river, 16ft max. i dont look for the deepest water necessarily. i look for deep water next to shore with lots of timber. i have a milk run of spots i have narrowed down over a lifetime. if i cruise by one of my spots and the finder reveals a lot of shad marks, i turn around a probe the cover there. the shad seem to move up n down the river to different sections and the big crappie fallow. go jig deep in some steep banked cover and try areas out. then remember the ones you score at and look for more like that. be very stealthy while doing it too, they spook easy.
tight lines to ya