Yesterday I went out on Pickwick.After a short search I found what I thoughtwas a school of crappie on my sonar.Itossed a jig to see if I was right.Icaught a crappie on my first cast.Overthe next 5 minutes I pulled 5 more crappie out.
At that point I thought I might be able to end this tripquickly by deploying the spider rig.Igot 6 poles in the water and trolled back and forth over this spot.It was basically two dead trees about 25yards apart.
I caught nothing on the spider rig over the next 15minutes.Then I tossed a jig right upagainst that structure again and bam…caught another one.I caught a few more single-poling and then itall shut off.I caught no more crappie.
I couldn’t figure out why they quit biting.Is it possible to spook a school offish by pulling a few out of it?Should I have backed off and checkedon them again later?