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I know some folks fly fish for crappie , when is the best time? think I would do any good this fall? or do they go too deep to reach? I was thinking a "clouser minnow"...........?
Pat.... Gates County
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Are those clousers or crappie candy or both? Whatever they are, I like them. Look very good, maybe a little bulky for my tastre but that is just me. As for going deep, I don't see why they still wouldn't work on a sinking a tip or intermediate sinking line. I fish 30-50 foot deep pools for salmon in the fall and have no problme getting down to the fish with just a sinking leader and sinking tip. It does get a little boring waiting for the fly to sink that deep but if that is what it takes.
Those will work! Like was already mentioned, I prefer mine a bit more sparse. Tie a few up and notice the difference in action and look in the water. You may also want to tie some with bead chain eyes for when the fish are shallow.
I also have become a believer in Slumpbusters for crappie. It's a nice dark streamer that has a lot of motion.
I like to fish for crappie the most when they're shallow for spawn, because they're concentrated where we can get after them easier with a fly. That being said, you can catch them most any time of the year, you just have to adapt your tactics!
Thanks for the reply /input, pic is of my attempt at Clousers. Plan to tye some with bead eyes,for the extra weight.......... fish today and or tomorrow............ :-)
I agree with the other guys: sparse is best for a Clouser.
UNLESS you are fishing for bull redfish or trophy specks.Quote:
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Or king mackerel - oooo yah, I gotta get me some more of that!
Pete
Nice looking flies the Clouser is one of the top flies here in Maine when the Crappie are on the beds in May.We will also use little spiders with rubber legs in various colors when they are taking directly on the surface.
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That's interesting. During past Novembers I have caught smallish (9 - 10") crappie on size 8 yellow sponge spiders. Wonder what most folks would thing about "topwater fishing" for crappie??! :DQuote:
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Look out for yourself for the next couple of days. Earl is nothing to be scoffed at!
Bon chance.
Pete
The window of importunity to catch Crappie on there beds with flies here in Maine is very small generally the two middle weeks of May.The rest of the time we try to get them when they are suspended in the much deeper water both in the lakes and the rivers. Attached is a photo of two nice Crappie that a fellow angler caught while fishing with me last week he kept four fish with a combined weight of eight pounds.
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The window of importunity to catch Crappie on there beds here in Maine is very small generally the two middle weeks of May.The rest of the time we try to get them when they are suspended in the much deeper water both in the lakes and the rivers. Attached is a photo of two nice Crappie that a fellow angler caught while fishing with me last week he kept four fish with a combined weight of eight and a half pounds.
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Great pic`s, thanks for the info
Pat
Pat I spent 68 days fishing last year 30 of those days were spent chasing Atlantic Salmon with a fly rod through out the Maritimes of Canada in those 30 days I landed over forty Salmon up to 48 inches long and up to 30 pounds.The other 38 days I spent chasing Black Crappie and I can tell this much these Crappie can drive a man to drink. In the 38 days of Crappie fishing I caught a lot Small mouth bass up to 4 pounds but only I only got into the Crappie 4 times one time we got into 36 huge Crappie in one hour these fish were all 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 pound. I have no problem finding the Crappie I can mark pods of fish suspended in this river that has some holes in it that are 40 feet deep. Getting them to take is left for a lot of serious discussion. Gayland
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I have to agree with QK, I have started catching farm pond crappie on a slumpbuster. I caught a 12 crappie out of a 3/4 acre farm pond on a rubber legged slumpbuster. I would have caught more, but I was broken off on a thump of the line.
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Pat
I did well in mid December, or... before the first ice over. I used a sinking line, and or heavy fly and got down about 10 feet with a flashy minnow imitation.
I have fly fished for crappies many times and done quite well with a marabou streamers early spring and throughout the summer months. Most of my fish were about 1 to 2 feet under the surface is crappie sometimes go on a feeding frenzy you will see little dimples on the water. This is a good time to catch many types of panfish as when there are feeding on the surface they attract other fish like bluegill in bass so be prepared for action. This is a simple pattern that I've used for them in the past, using a size 8 hook we would start out with a piece of red either.feather or something that was read entire it on for a tale wrapped the body with yellow Chanel underneath the I would be a other small piece of red feather for the streamer part behind the eye of the hook white marabou . This was a killer pattern when I was a kid in high school which you believe in 1964. Good luck with it.
You can also use shooting line !