Thread: Black crappie

Not holding your mouth right .

Originally Posted by KDAVID1

That was what was so confusing to me. I think I have been around more cover spider rigging then I ever was drifting--I guess they are the more elusive of the species.

The bottom is cover and alot of your drifting was deep if I remembe correctly

yep drifting and fishing very deep

In the summer time(hot as crap) I catch black crappie in 7 to 10 fow. I may catch a white every now and again but 90 percent are blacks. I have never heard until now but them not targeting shad like whites makes sense.

On a lake i fish the proportion from black to white is much closer in percentages than the rest of the lakes I fish. On that lake it's not unusual to have 1/3rd whites and the rest blacks in the 'well most days. And there are still days where a white is hard to come by (more blacks than whites, even on this lake). I longline troll flats and over creek channels until the fish go shallow. Then I'm longlining shallows. You can catch big whites still in the shallows 2-4 weeks after most of the blacks have went back onto the deeper flats. So.......there's nothing that I do to catch whites vrs blacks. They entermingle and get caught in the same locations of the lake when they get caught.