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i was just looking back at my fish pics from Oct 2011 thru this year. In 2011 I wasn't catching many crappie at all but just about every trip I caught a good size black crappie. In 2012 and so far this year I have caught a ton more crappie but not a single black crappie? Just seems kinda weird:dono
You are fishing a different style,
Blacks are shallower usually. They spawn about 10 degrees cooler than the whites, so I've been told.
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interesting on both--before I was fishing differently but catching the black crappie very deep around no cover (the bowl at Sardis) I guess I just can't turn my mind off tonight:)
Yep you were drift fishing, but Bills response is spot on too. Stanger things have happened, DD saw a BIGFEET and Ole Miss got the number one recruit in the nation.:Rofl
I've always heard that black crappie tend to stay around cover year round. They don't move around the lake following shad like the whites do.
The bowl? Never heard that one before. Where is the bowl?Quote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
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Bill Burnett
870-635-0202
We sell XPRESS, EXCEL, and ALWELD Boats. Yamaha, Suzuki, Evinrude, Mud Buddy, and Tohatsu/Nissan Engines.
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Some of the few blacks I have caught at Sardis biggest have always been in the middle of the lake and in the fall.
Yep nail on the headQuote:
Originally Posted by cray
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I catch a ton on oxbows jigging cover, but when I go with torch we would catch some big ole whites trolling cranks
That was what was so confusing to me. I think I have been around more cover spider rigging then I ever was drifting--I guess they are the more elusive of the species.Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottV
Not holding your mouth right .
The bottom is cover and alot of your drifting was deep if I remembe correctlyQuote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
yep drifting and fishing very deep
In the summer time(hot as crap) I catch black crappie in 7 to 10 fow. I may catch a white every now and again but 90 percent are blacks. I have never heard until now but them not targeting shad like whites makes sense.
On a lake i fish the proportion from black to white is much closer in percentages than the rest of the lakes I fish. On that lake it's not unusual to have 1/3rd whites and the rest blacks in the 'well most days. And there are still days where a white is hard to come by (more blacks than whites, even on this lake). I longline troll flats and over creek channels until the fish go shallow. Then I'm longlining shallows. You can catch big whites still in the shallows 2-4 weeks after most of the blacks have went back onto the deeper flats. So.......there's nothing that I do to catch whites vrs blacks. They entermingle and get caught in the same locations of the lake when they get caught.
we did have alot of water in 2010 and I was catching them 25 to 30ft deep (just off the bottom)--course alot less water last year and the deepest I fished all year was 15ft.Quote:
Originally Posted by bird down