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hello all i am new to fishing oconee and am looking for some insight on the paterns and best technics for crappie. i have been going to suger creek but catching mostly dinks.wanted to shoot docks but its hard to find any still in the water.any help would be greatly appreciated
Gtojoe,
Go back to either the dam area or sugar creek and take some patience, about 50 crappie minnows and some chartruse, black, or white 1/16th ounce lead head jigs. I buy the cheap ones at walmart. The kind with just the lead painted head and a hook made to put little crappie grubs or tubes on. Go to the stumps sticking up out of the water along the main lake over by the dam, sugar creek or any stumps you find in about 20ft of water. Take you a 10ft crappie rod and let out about 10ft of line and drop your jig head with a minnow hooked thru the lips right next to a stump and hold it there. Sometimes you may have to wait for 5 minutes but eventually you will feel a little bump and you got you one. I have went the last 4 or 5 weekends and caught about a dozen slabs in the 13inch range and about 15 or 20 dinks fishing this way. Not really aggresive biting but if you like to take it easy and fish this is the way to do it. Sometimes you can tie off to one stump and fish by it and catch 5 or 6 fish from one stump. However lately it seems better to move from stump to stump with trolling motor and usually catch one or 2 by a stump. A friend of mine went down to the stumps along the main lake past long shoals by the dam the other day and said they were blowing up down there. Wouldn't hurt to try a different area too. I have taken probably 60 fish out of the stump fields at sugar creek this fall so far but I am sure there are plenty left for everyone as the fish are always in and out of the area.
I have tried the dock shooting as well but the times I tried it was windy and couldn't fish due to having to constantly mess with the trolling motor and most the fish were dinks.
Hope I have helped you some. I will be floating along in the stumps at sugar creek this sunday in a Red/white 1994 Ranger 374v this Sunday so if you are down and see me and my wife tightlining in the stumps stop by and say hello.
mtnman, have you noticed a better bite early or has the bite been pretty much consistant all during the day? BTW, Good report too. Thanks for sharing.Thumbs Up
mtnman
thanks for the info.i will be trying it out asap. dont know if i will be out sunday but if i am i will look for you. good luck and hope you gatch some hogs.
The bite seems to be real good from sun up until around 9:30 or so then it starts to fade away. From about 10ish thru lunch time until about 3 or 4pm I may catch a stragler here and there and then about 4pm things really start to blow up and they bite about every time I drop a jig near a stump. I haven't been having any luck with spider rigging but I am only 25yr old and haven't learned all the ropes to that yet. Still trying to figure it out. Tightlining a jig/minnow from 10 to 14 ft deep seems to be the magic depth.