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Fished a pile that I had put out in July. I fished it throughout the summer and never caught a fish off it until Monday and Tuesday. Fished a few hours both days and pulled 17 one day and 20 the next. Fished 15.5 ft. water, 11-13 ft. down with slim sticks, minnow minders, and beaver tails. Purple/chartreuse, black/chartreuse with an orange or pink head. Water is still a little stained north of Sarge, but about how I like it. The shad are thick enough to walk on and I marked massive schools of sand bass everywhere I went. Also big flocks of pelicans and water turkeys gettin fat on all the shad. Monday I was double dipping 1/8 oz jigs using two rods. Yesterday almost every fish came off a single 1/4 oz jig. Couldn't hardly get a bite on the double rig. Same depth, same color, same line weight. I had the pole with the 1/4 oz in my left hand and the double rig in my right. Final score: Left hand 19. Right hand 1.
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Fish are gettin fat right now. I put another brush pile out about 1:30 yesterday. I fished it at 5:00 before I left, and pulled a nice fish off it.
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Do you have a theory about this left hand victory cA? Anybody?
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Man I have no idea. I would hold the two 1/8 oz jigs as close to the single 1/4 oz without getting the lines tangled and they would hit the 1/4 oz almost every time. I even tried putting some crappie crack (crappie nibble) on the bottom 1/8 oz jig, and they would still hit the 1/4. Don't know if the bigger head was closer to the size of the shad they were eating or what. The day before I wore em out on a 1/8 oz.
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If they were hitting you on the fall I would guess that maybe the single jig was falling faster but double dipping I'm guessing not. Crappie are weird.
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Yah I was holding steady right above the brush. Just don't know.
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We won the Midwest Crappie Trail Classic on Kaw last weekend. We had 18.04lbs for a two day total. Pre fished brush on Friday and nothing for tournament fish. Caught our fish on Sarge bridge from 14-24FOW. We used 1/2 jigs with Crappie Pro Wasshoppahs. We strolled the rocks about .2mph and did a method called snap jigging. We would hit the rocks with our heavy jigs and snap them up about 1 to 2 foot. The fish would hit them mostly on the fall back down. We caught them this way on other parts of the lake in rocks. You might want to give this a try as they are feeding heavy and will not be in brush when feeding. Hope this helps.
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Snap jigging, learn something new every day. Will have to try this technique.
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Shane, are you using a 1/2" jig in order to stay in contact with the rip rap?
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