Quote Originally Posted by Wiskers View Post
I'm on the boat right now but 3 weeks ago while I was crappie fish'n I cought some of the biggest gills I've ever cought. Had several push'n a pound.

I was fish'n jigs 10' deep in about 12 to 13' of water over brush piles in the middle of the bays. If I'd use some smaller jigs or some worms I think I'da killed'um. I had a good mess of crappie & atleast 10 big gills.

I know I missed several cause I kept get'n pecked on the jigs.
Wiskers,

That is a typical pattern for me from Nov. through jan. I like minnows or pieces of crawlers. I like to find brush out in the middle of the bays in about 10 - 15 ft of water. Seems like any deeper and the bigger fish are just not there in numbers. Several of the 10 I kept to eat were 3/4 lb. Hard to believe the numbers of this size fish in KY lake the last couple of years. I have had good luck around the living milfoil/moss later on in the fall. Some of the stuff isn't 6 inches tall but the fish are there. Seems like the catfish like to school around the stuff as well.

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