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I posted a question similar a long time ago. I’ve learned a little since then thanks to a couple you guys helping me out. I’ve caught crappie in many of the waters leading into the main river around Huntsville, but have only caught a couple in the main channel. Do crappie exist in the main channel? If so,are they catchable? I never see any post about this. It’s always in the backwaters, creeks or bridges and flats on the wide lakes.
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Find stumps or structure in the river or rock piles anything to create a current break and you will find big crappies in the river !
Time of year has a lot to do with that. Summer and winter months are when you're going to see the most action on the main river. Like slabprower said look for cover or drop off with hard bottoms and rock. Now you will catch some in the spring on the main river but it's not as common and usually close to a creek mouth or spawning area
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I catch them from the bank along the main river all fall and winter sans this year as its been to flooded,and current breaks are great as are inlets....they school bait too and follow bass that are schooling so if you see bass breaking on shad, fish under and behind them for crappie...rockhouse landing and Blackwell run are usually dependable and so is Ingalls harbor at Decatur...use a weighted cork there and cast as far as you can toward the channel fishing from the points at mouth of harbor with the jig 3-4 feet deep....
I’m from West Alabama and do a lot of fishing on the Black Warrior River. Last weekend before the heavy rains came in, I was fishing some of the sloughs coming off the main river looking for spawning crappie in the grass. With very little success, I decided to move to the main river. After Livescoping some fallen tree tops in the slower flowing parts of the river, I was able to find plenty of crappie! While dressing the fish, most were full of eggs, so these were probably fish getting ready to go into the sloughs to spawn rather than being post spawn fish. Water temp was 69 degrees.
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Here’s some food for thought. I was fishing the mouth of Cotaco creek one spring a couple years back. Top water popper, I was bass fishing. Caught my pb crappie 2.5 ib. Couldn’t believe it. I was shocked