My question is: We are just about to get in the ole hot summer weather and I want to know if spider rigging is good in the summer? If so what areas of a lake would one do some searching?
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My question is: We are just about to get in the ole hot summer weather and I want to know if spider rigging is good in the summer? If so what areas of a lake would one do some searching?
Spider rigging will work well once the fish go to summer pattern. Try main lake points and river ledges, 12'to 16' (on Weiss), that is where I find them in the hot of the summer. GOOD FISHING, Terry
If you lake has a thermocline that'll help even more. All the fish will be above it.
Spider rigging is a good way to catch crappie during the hot and cold months. As stated above river or big creek ledges are a good place to look, as well as using the thermocline as a depth control to find what depth the fish are hanging out.
I have found through the years that the fish can be finicky during the summer and sometimes prefer a hook and minnow over jigs or jigs tipped with minnows. Tune your graph to pick up the thermocline and you have a good head start to findng and catching those summer slabs.
Good Luck!
Thanx for the info guys, I usually fish lake Martin and lake Harding. Will I be looking to fish above or below the thermocline in the summer, and also what about winter? One more thing, do u look for structure while spider rigging in the summer or will they be suspended out in the open (so to speak).
Above it. If you have structure to fish above it then go for it, but you should be able to find quite a few fish suspended out over open water especially around drops.Quote:
Originally Posted by Procraft 176
Thanx guys, I usually winterize my boat about June ( so to speak) and summerize about sept. or oct., due to all the wave runners and pleasure boaters. But this year, I think I'm gonna try crappie fishing a good bit during the summer. Any u guys ever fish Lake Martin or Harding?
If you can spider rig with all the pleasure boaters running around you are a better man than me.
There's a lot to be said for Crappie fishin' at night in the summer.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerA
That's right GCD, I think I'm gonna do some of that as soon as this weather permits.
During the beginning of summer you gonna have to use your graph and FIND the fish (and bait). Most of the time you will find the fish holding near the bottom in 15-18' of water with the bait slightly above 'em. If your graph has maps you would also want to follow the creek channels looking for fish hanging on the creek ledges. Once you find fish you'll want to hit 'em at first light. Sometimes you may find 'em shallower but the balls of bait will start decending deeper when the sun starts getting up. Just try following the bait out towards the deeper water and youll be catching some fish. By 11AM the sun will be getting pretty hot and the water lice and pleasure boats will start chopping up the lake. That's the signal to reel 'em in and head to the house.:rolleyes::oQuote:
Originally Posted by RogerA
Once the Jetskis hit the water. I just can't afford a large enough liability insurance policy to stay on the water and fish. I have this unstoppable urge to hurl a one ounce sinker tied to a few treble hooks at every one that comes close enough for me to reach. I haven't yet hooked up, but I have come close. Not far behind is boat driving idiots, that don't know how to plane a boat and they actually slow down and act as if they are doing me a favor by slowing down and going by swamping me with that 4 foot wake.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to own a boat.
They just suck the fun right out of it.
Zero
I don't know exactly how the laws read, but a game officer told me a couple of years ago, that if a jet ski is close enough to you for you to read his registration #'s he is too close, write it down and call him and he would deal with it.
If you guys remember several years back, there were numerous fatalities from some adrenaline junkies that would see how close they could get to the back of a boat while it was running down the lake, just to jump a wake. There where some new laws passed resulting from some of those deaths. Make the call and help keep some of those idiots alive.
i fish martin quite a bit usually up around wind creek and elkahatchee usually have pretty good success but its bass season right now the crappie are done up that way. 2 weeks ago caught 14 not one had any eggs in it. the spotted bass are hittin pretty good though on small rattle traps and lizards fished with a split shot about 6 inches up is what i have alot of luck onQuote:
Originally Posted by Procraft 176
don't forget the wake boarders with the competition stereo systems that drive circles constantly with the radio loud enough to hear across the entire lake.its people like that who can ruin a perfectly good day i get so mad sometimes. i think i should probably leave my pistol in the truck before i snap one day.lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Zero
Hey guys thank you for those tips I find it really interesting that you can still long line troll just in different locations. I am not much for setting on the banks playing with the snakes (Iam like Indiana Jones - I hate snakes!!!). Are there any ideas of any certain areas to go I live in the Huntsville Area?
"FISH ON"
WalleyeBob
Yea guys, thanks for all the input, I find it very helpful. Treykelly, I fish up that way alot in the winter time also, chasing those stripers. I am fairly familiar with wind creek area. Just started learning a bit about the elkahatchee area. My family has a place in Blue Creek, so I spend alot of time in that area also.
:mad:I second that Zero in Colorado because there is so little Boating acreage and they are swamped with PWC'S (of which i would love to blown them all to hell) I would carry a baseball bat because they came by you at top speed and close enough to reach out and hit them!!!:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Zero
"FISHON"