my Crappie were just too BIG

Sometimes I go with the intention to show off my crappie.com gear ,
Sometimes I hybridize my outfit as well .
Yesterday I had on a KABOOM ballcap and a crappie.com t-shirt .
It quickly became apparent , that in order to show off my crappie.com t-shirt
Sometimes I was not going to be able to get my KABOOM in on the image with crappie.com logo at the same time .....:yikes
It seems that time delay images and nice size crappie just don't mix if you are looking to get everything in the image . :banghead
Don't ya just hate having crappie too big for a good photo ?
sometimes I do , just saying :Rofl
and for sure KABOOM is near when I am
particulars are as follows , the spawn there is about over with , last ones to the party are about all that's left . the bulk of the fish appear done for this year in this location.
Now here in lies the you just need to be aware and know a few things ....
Ghost minnows aka Mississippi silver sides in Texas ,start to spawn about the same time the crappie are done.
they like to spawn on wood it seems and the edges of the dock are wood. So all them there tired ole hungry crappie stay right below the edge of the dock ,when the minner frolicking begins and just hammer them unsuspecting minners .
it will not be a case of I think I got bit and often times within a half second of the jig hitting the water ...K A B O O M !
spawning ghost minnows look like a live bowl of spaghetti on the surface at a glance and they also do this exact same thing out in the big timber on the tops of the trees this time of year ....
so add this tidbit of info. to me giving up a secret in the art of how to ketch a herd of crappie ....
just saying :highfive
p.s. there will be some not so big crappie in the mix as well and maybe one or 2 of them not white crappie as well and you might ketch more than a few too ....:crazy:
all 51 in an hour went right back in the water where they came from .:highfive

Now you're just showing off! :Rofl

Some serious Kaboom there, wish I could find a few too big for the camera. What does a ghost minnow look like? Amazing that with them spawning and so many of them around that the crappie still manage to eat your jig on a regular basis.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

Some serious Kaboom there, wish I could find a few too big for the camera. What does a ghost minnow look like? Amazing that with them spawning and so many of them around that the crappie still manage to eat your jig on a regular basis.

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its a long skinny minner ,kinda clear bodied with a bright iridescent silver pearl stripe under the skin along the spine , mature they are 5 or more inches long.
when they show up spawning , you can stand in one spot and hammer till ya get tired of it , post spawn crappie really like them .:highfive
sometimes crappie are in that anything that goes by them gets bit mode , and them silver sides are really frisky and hard for crappie to ketch , so a "slower" one going by is most probably gunna get sum a dat KABOOM :Rofl:highfive

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

Some serious Kaboom there, wish I could find a few too big for the camera. What does a ghost minnow look like? Amazing that with them spawning and so many of them around that the crappie still manage to eat your jig on a regular basis.

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I'm pretty sure this is what Ketchn is referring to as a "ghost minnow" ... or at least a close relative : Attachment 503881

OK ... I looked it up and the "Texas Silverside" is a relative of the Brook Silverside and looks like this :

https://txmarspecies.tamug.edu/fullsize/49.jpg

I fished with Brook Silversides that I netted from my pre-teen years into my late 20's, finding them to be far superior to Shad or minnows for catching Crappie. I've even paid the high dollar prices for Basstrix jig bodies, just to imitate the Silversides we have ... and customized a few of them with various colors :

Attachment 503883

(bottom one is the original)

Awesome Kaboom! I haven't had any issues of being unable to fit everything in a picture lately. Guess I need to catch bigger crappie huh... :Rofl

Wow! Great photos and story. Thanks for the walk along.
Bob

Nice ketch!


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As always Ketch good info and post ... yep the minnows are beginning to show up as well since last couple of weeks but a lot of small ones are mostly being caught ...

Great post Ketchn! Thanks for sharing