I am making a trip to Grand tomorrow. From what I am hearing the water is very clear. Any pointers on what colors or depth?
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I am making a trip to Grand tomorrow. From what I am hearing the water is very clear. Any pointers on what colors or depth?
What electronics are you using? Start with finding the depth the shad are hanging out in. Look for fish on your graph and start at the top of the fish and down at least 6' below. That should be your target depth for the area you're in. Search out brush in the target depth. Fish the brush. Good luck!
Salt and pepper, black shad, blue thunder for plastics. Blue and white hair jig. Reaper has you covered on the hunting part.
Won't be taking the boat out. Will be fishing out of a private owed dock. From my understanding the depth is around 18 to 20' and brushed. That is about all I know. Thanks for the advice.
Pappa and I went Saturday. We looked at several docks but only found one that had fish, it also had bunches of people fishing it. Brush was from 25 to 12 foot deep, the fish mostly at 15-20 foot but from what people said and what we observed the active fish were at the top of the piles and hitting stuff at about four foot deep. We also found huge schools of crappie around ledges on the main channel at about 45 foot deep but they were mostly dinks.
Grandkid and I found them up in the river up by twin bridges, woodpiles in 20-25ft fish were 18-20ft. We double dipped minnow mindrs to catch them, the wood was good but you had to be a certain area where the shad were to consistanly get bit. We eneded up keeping 26 with fish up to 1.75.
BigFin- Get you some live maggots to tip your jigs with, can't beat them in the winter time. EB
Anything with blue and white is what I've been using. Depth has been anywhere from 5-15 ft. I haven't been slaying them by any means but that's what I've gotten bit on when it happens.
We ended up getting skunked up there. Came back and fished Keystone and caught 2 really nice ones and 4 or 5 small ones. They were hanging out in about 15 to 20 fow. Thanks again for all the info. Gonna try that maggot deal.
Brian is that what they call wax worms?Quote:
Originally Posted by Eufaula boy
live maggots, most likely, are eurolarvae, a.k.a. blue bottle fly larva