Nephew Catches His Largest Crappie Ever on Harris Today

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My nephew John was able to join Charles and myself fishing on Harris today. Yesterday my father joined us and we ended up with 37 nice crappie and perch. Today was a totally different story. A front had come through and the temperatures were down, plus the wind had picked up quite a bit. It made fishing tough and we ended up with only around 15 or 16.

John had picked up a few crappie and two large enough for me to take his picture. About 3:00 this afternoon, I saw one of his rods take a nose dive straight down. He grabbed the rod and I told him to try and lead the fish away from his other line. I saw very quickly this fish was not going to be turned. A big congrat's on a very nice crappie that weighed in at 1.78 pounds. Here's John with Charles and his big fish:




Took some screenshots for you guys. Charles has an Onix 8 and these are all taken with down-imaging. With the fish in deep water at this time of year, DI is your best tool. I tried the 360 and side-imaging, but they don't do as well when the fish are in 30' water. These shots give you a glimpse into their world and hopefully it will help give you some insights that will help your fishing.

I read once where if you see a baitball that is oval and regular shaped, there are no predators around. If there are irregular shapes, then predators are at work. The second shot is a classic and look at all the predators. If this were on Jordan, I would say most are crappie. On Harris, probably a combination perch and crappie. The fourth picture has a huge rock field in it and thought it was quite interesting. Bass and bream fishermen may like it, but not really something that impacts us crappie guys.