Our family has recently gotten back into crappie fishing after a loooooong hiatus. Fishing Kentucky Lake. Today, we were out and were finding fish but having trouble getting them to bite.

Using electronics to find brush piles on drop-offs in about 12-15 feet of water, then straightlining down to them with jigs tipped with minnows. Water was stained, surface temperature of about 83. Fished from 6:00 a.m. until 10 something. We tried a few different color jigs.

I've done enough bass fishing and using electronics to get okay at identifying fish and distinguishing between them based on size, how they are schooled up, etc. We were definitely on fish most of the day, at 3 or 4 stops. And based on their size and how they were schooled up I'm pretty sure they were crappie (or possibly white bass).

On the Livescope, I repeatedly watched the same thing: a fish dart toward my jig/minnow, stare at it for a few seconds, and then swim off. The few bites I would get were so light that I was only able to hook a couple. The couple I did hook and get to the surface were in fact crappie.

I watched this over and over on the Livescope. If this were happening in bass fishing, I would conclude that I was in the right ballpark but something about my presentation was scaring them off or at least not convincing them.

Any ideas? In particular, I'm skeptical about the bright green Mr. Crappie 8 lb. line we all have spooled up. I know lots of people use this for crappie. But there just seems like something about our presentation that is causing them to not commit and bite.

Dang Livescope. In the old days I would have had no idea this was all going on down there LOL.