The ole SS minnow came out of the garage for its first water run of 2017 this week . She was ready to go except for the cobwebs and she went down the road and down the lake just like she always has for the last 5 years .
We hit a spot close to the house and I got there ahead of my bud , and found some nice fish pretty fast by myself . When he got there about an hour later the fish did the ole change up and got rather tough to ketch . The larger fish I managed were all on the bottom and I used a little employed technique of crawling a crawdad type of plastic across the bottom . You see I don't conform to traditional crappie tactics and know without any doubt they will and can FEED DOWN !
Its pretty silly to say a catfish or carp wont feed up and we all know a bass and or sunfish will feed down , so why on earth would people continue to think crappie wont feed down ?
I have seen crappie do it myself on numerous occasions and they employ a tilt to the side preparation for the strike . I am pretty sure they are tilting themselves to get a better visual before the pounce and seem to be pretty good at this type of ambush .
The fish were scattered and in a deep mode , we only found partially spawned out white crappie females and spawned out small black crappie . We couldn't seem to find shallow fish but I am pretty sure somewhere the males were up .
hope you enjoy the read ...
water temperature was 74 on the surface btw ....
have a great day and never say never ....it could happen
p.s. the color is a custom my bud made me and we call it mud bug