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Ok......Let me start out like this. I need some help because I don't have any idea if what im doing is right, wrong, or somewhere in between. I fish a local lake I assume it is no different than any other shallow lake with cypress trees, except for one thing! I can't catch fish on it! Best I can tell the lake is man-made with a channel around the bank a little deeper that the rest and one deep hole on one end of it. So, I fish the trees, can someone tell me how they would fish it.
Are you talking about Mallard?
How'd you guess? LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodgeman
joef, i sent you a pm.
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Well don't send PMs. Others can use the help too.
i just told him the word was spinnerbaits around cypress trees. most here are crappie fishermen so that wouldn't interest most.
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Yeah thanks for your response sir. Im kinna new and just needed a few pointers. Does everyone start out far from the tree or go straight to the base? I guess what im trying to say is how do you "work" a tree?
I usually start fishing away from the tree first, theres lots of knees and old tops laying around the bases of the tree that you can't see, I try to fish all of this all the way up to the base of the tree. I like to find the tops that are laying around in the water. They usually hold more fish. This is where a good pair of polarized glasses come in handy. And just because you fished one side of the limb, doesn't mean they ain't hiding on the other side. When we catch a fish around a top, we'll spend several minutes fishing every little spot we can find in it.
AWESOME INFO!! I like using jigs alot but Im wondering too if you guys that use jigs use a float with them or just dip em' and also where do you start as far as depth? Hope im not intruding I don't want secrets or anything Im just soakin this UP... thanksQuote:
Originally Posted by dblevens
many cypress trees have a ring or "donut" of roots a couple of feet around them. they might not be next to the tree but in these roots. Still I would rather find some submerged limbs broken off by the ice storm away from the tree trunk.
Cool I will take that into account. Thanks alot fellersQuote:
Originally Posted by Gomer Snerd
Ive been told by a very good crappie fisherman that fishes Mallard almost weekly, that he catches all his fish a few inches off the bottom right next to the tree with minnows. He says water temp is everything in that lake. He stops fishing it in May and spends the rest of the summer spider rigging at Midway.
Everyone says they shut down in May... Why is that does it happen on many other lakes. I guess I just don't understand this lake will be my demise. The past 3 days I've went 2 of them in the mourning and caught one stinking catfish the first day and 4 bream the next day! No crappie at all!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by htr2133
I have only fished it once, but the guy I was talking about linked the "May Shut-off" to the shallow depth of the lake causing the water temp to be too high to regularly catch fish after this time of year. I think for him, he just knows he can find more productive fishing in other lakes that have more typical variance of depth, bottom, and structure that provide better habitat for the fish in the hotter months. I don't think he would say you can't catch a few there after a certain time of year but for him the numbers don't justify the time on the water vs. what he knows he can do somewhere else.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeFish
I'm sure there is someone out there who will be able to catch em on Mallard on the hottest day of the year, but if my friend knows he can't, I know I can't for sure...he is a great crappie fisherman.
keep after them youll get them good luckQuote:
Originally Posted by htr2133