I got to thinking...

[MO' MONEY]

Scary I know, but talking to a guide on Toledo Bend, all he fishes are skip cork rigs over structure. For the big 4 this may not be the best setup, but on some of these shallower oxbows, I think this could be the ticket. Plus I can cast to a pile that is in 8 foot of water and not be on top of the fish. Any of you guys do this? He said he has a log book of each marked pile and how deep the brush is and fishes over the top of it to reduce snags for clients and catches a TON OF FISH. I was looking at the slab shaker combos, but just seeing who else fished this way and what time of year. It's just gotten really difficult to catch crappie on these shallow lakes the past few weeks and trying to find something that will work when the river doesn't have em schooled up in the open water

[stormcloud]

It will defiantly work. An advantage he is going to have over oxbow fishing is his structure is not moving between floods. All of your's won't move but some will. Some will be gone and there will be new structure somewhere else. Keeping tract of fish year to year will require a lot of fishing. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

[M R Dux]

We do this often in spring up here when the blacks move up on the rocky points. Minnows or jigs will both work.

One thing I would recommend would be to take your tackle out of the boat and just spend a day or so with the DI/SI running, marking piles and structure and making notes of the water levels and the levels of the TOPS of each pile.

A lot of the guides up here do it because it is a cheap and effective way to put clients on fish and they don't lose a bunch of gear or burn a bunch of gas.

[Cray]

Great way to catch fish in water like you fish. I would look at that B&M float and Fly rod. That's what it is designed for. Get you a Phluger President to match it and have a killer combo.

["G"]

Scary I know, but talking to a guide on Toledo Bend, all he fishes are skip cork rigs over structure. For the big 4 this may not be the best setup, but on some of these shallower oxbows, I think this could be the ticket. Plus I can cast to a pile that is in 8 foot of water and not be on top of the fish. Any of you guys do this? He said he has a log book of each marked pile and how deep the brush is and fishes over the top of it to reduce snags for clients and catches a TON OF FISH. I was looking at the slab shaker combos, but just seeing who else fished this way and what time of year. It's just gotten really difficult to catch crappie on these shallow lakes the past few weeks and trying to find something that will work when the river doesn't have em schooled up in the open water

That's the way we used to fish for crappie....6 ft. spinning rod....slip cork with a jig or a minnow or a jig and minnow....done it for years before fishing all these different trolling methods.

[MO' MONEY]

Also, it's hard to get the gf to watch tips trolling. She would much rather watch a cork and one pole... Dux, the lake I live on has a dam that keeps it pretty stable. And with this SI I've been doing a lot of 5mph cruising. Have found a ton of cool stuff. Still plan to add some of my own to mark by gps. Tired of sharing all the bamboo marked tops

[hotrod1]

Bamboo tops are a magnet. Ask some guys over in AR. I put them out and within 30 min fish on. Very cheap very productive. Last for years. If Iam not mistaken guides are charging 500 a day in AR to fish over them. Slip cork and minnow.

[hotrod1]

It's 450 a day.

[MO' MONEY]

That's about the same range the fella on Toledo was charging. And they were catching 150 fish a day with 3 people in the boat

[hotrod1]

They are making some serious cash. The group Iam talking about was running 3 boats a day and they are booked. They catch em 365 days a year.