Quote Originally Posted by crappie wrangler View Post
The most accurate answer I could give is yes. I don't fish there enough to know where I was or even the name of the landing we put in at. We fished very similar to Striped bass fishing. Drove around until we marked fish then dropped a lure and caught some. At times we marked fish right on the bottom and if our lure was more than 1' from the bottom we would not get a bite. At other times they were suspended and we fished at the depth we could see them on the sonar. In every case we marked them on the sonar and caught fish until enough other boats motored by very close. There was a definable correlation between outboard noise and the larger fish leaving the area. I guess they did not get larger by being stupid . When I say very close I mean that many boats came within 20' of us with their motor running at which point everything but dinks left and we would have to go find another school. We moved often.
Thanks. Trying to learn the summer patterns. We normally fish rip rap but really have not done any good at all there this year. I'm just trying to learn what everyone looks for in the summer to help narrow down my searching. Earlier I had read main lake points for EB. We tried that twice and failed there too. We'll keep after it though. Thanks for the reply.