what baits to use early mornings on noiln

I am struggling to catch crappie and need know what baits to use for early morings to afternoon.

I would carry an arsenal. Jigs (different styles/colors) Road Runners, maybe a few minners. Throw every technique at em until you find what works. Hope this gives you a start. Good luck…

This time of year the spawn is over. Concentrate on drop offs, ledges and deeper structure. Pulling cranks or longlining would prolly work as well. CrappiePappy will probably chime in when he reads this with some great advice.

thanks guys

Never fished Nolin, so I'm not sure how it fishes compared to the lakes I do fish & have fished. But, I'd start on shaded banks early & then move out onto flats with brush, then out to channel edges midday. How you fish & what you use depends on how your boat is set up to fish & what equipment/electronics you have .... plus how familiar you are with the lake you're fishing.
Best tip I can give you is to find an area where there's scattered schools of Shad and brushpiles.

COE Water Temp & O2 chart indicates there's a thermocline setting up at around 15ft, but they take those measurements at the Dam, so that depth may vary in other parts of the lake. And there might be some areas where there is no thermocline.

I fish off our dock and bank and sometimes our boat

If you can "shoot" docks or fish under them, they can be really good especially on sunny days. I like to always have minners with me, just in case. But Im no expert.

what color/type jig heads and color of grub, and shad etc.

1/16 oe 1/32 should suffice. Fishing brush piles maybe 1/8 max. It will be hard to give you any colors but here is an article to read. https://www.crappie.com/crappie/feat...s/#post3970186.

What’s more importance than size/color/profile/presentation would be to have the confidence to believe that if you drop your offering on the forehead of the crappie, he will bite it. If you are wishy washy about your lure choice for ANY reason you will not fish it with the finesse and patience that it requires to catch these fish that aren’t spawning.
Now that you have that in your toolbox it’s time to fish, and fish with a purpose. 1/16oz jigs are a good place to start, chartreuse and white colors are pretty good on just about any lake, and any bait resembling a shad should work. If someone stole my jig box today, and all I owned was some 1/16 oz white jigheads and a solid chartreuse shad body style bait I know that I will go out and catch fish (Confidence is key). I wouldn’t get too hung up on the never ending styles and colors of baits, focus on presentation, pay attention to the thermocline that is now forming on most Kentucky reservoirs and be slow & deliberate with your jig delivery. Err on the side of caution and fish slower and smaller, see how that goes.



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