When fishing brush piles do you actually have to mark fish on your locator before you set up or do you use a run and gun technique covering as many piles as possible until you find fish?
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When fishing brush piles do you actually have to mark fish on your locator before you set up or do you use a run and gun technique covering as many piles as possible until you find fish?
OlJim, I'll fish the pile regardless. There have been times we couldn't see any fish over or around the brush, but caught the fire out of them. Sometimes those crappie will bury into that brush. I know many fishermen who fish brush only when they see fish on the finder, but I fish them regardless.
I agree with guru on this one. I fish every pile, but not for long. My experience has been if there are active fish around or in a pile they will bite immediately. Now if I figure out the fish want the pile to be in a certain depth of water, I won't waste my time trying piles in other depths. Right now on Oologah is a prime example of this. If you are fishing piles deeper than 15 fow you are wasting your time. This could change with all the water coming in but it has been that way for the last 3 weeks. In short if you catch fish in or over a pile, fish every pile in that depth of water you can find. Whether the graph shows fish or not doesn't matter, just keep moving until you find the right depth.
Odie
I can't wait to get a boat...all this talk of brush piles and dipping timber is making me crazy. :D
The only way I know that a fish is on a brush pile is to fish the brush pile. I can not interpret my sonar, Lowrance 520C, well enough to know if fish are present or not. If your sonar is set on fish I.D. how do you know it is a fish and not the end of a limb from the brush pile? I have played with the settings, sensitivity, noise suppression, you name it. I would love to go fishing with somebody that has the knowledge to teach me how to read my sonar and see fish on brush piles. Now if you have an extra HB with SI and down scan or a Lowrance HD unit with SS and DS, send it my way. Those pictures are incredible, just ask Crappie George.
I listened to Melvin Underhill, longtime guide @ Dutchess Creek /Porum Landing for years and he fished brushpiles every day. He fished them all in progression with only minnows, and stated those crappie are lazy! and wont travel over 30" or less to take a bait. I callenged him to an 8 hour jigs vs. minnows and it was a draw....go figure? He was a great crappie fisherman and I learned alot from him. He said the agressive / active fish hit first and after they slow you might as well move on to the next pile;....good advice.
What area do u fish guru ?Quote:
Originally Posted by crappieguru
Does anybody know a link I can go to,to find where brush piles are on Eufaula? I have found one for Ooolagah but not Eufaula.
Run and Gun is the way I do it most of the time. We call it cherry pickin. but there are time when slow is the name of the game. Go Figure????? in the summer if you get 3-4 fish off a brush pile that s good move on...
I don't even look for fish on my locator, I use it strictly to find structure. Maybe one of these days I'll learn how to locate and identify fish with it.