Does anybody crappie fish around Savannah? I am going to start sauger fishing once duck season is over and would like to add some crappie in there too, but have very little experience with crappie there.
Printable View
Does anybody crappie fish around Savannah? I am going to start sauger fishing once duck season is over and would like to add some crappie in there too, but have very little experience with crappie there.
I have never done it, but I watch guys fishing up next to the dam over near the wing wall and also over along to outside lock wall catch boat loads.
My brother lives bout six miles from the damn.
he and his son fish on the river side of the lock wall with a 32oz jighead with a crappie magnut in purole and chartruse. And my i add they do pretty good too...
What kind of rod does he use with that?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigDfromTenn
Rod didnt seem to matter the key was to have four pound test line. The slower it falls the better the bite was. He would cast out and count one thousand one etc. to eight then start reeling in slow and would catch four or five fish to my one. I had eight pound test line on my reel didnt take me long to re-spool my reel with the four pound.
YOU THINK he might be talkin bout a 1/32 oz. 32 oz would be the size of a golf ball and no way 4# test would hold it.
Thanks guys. Maybe once they stop spilling I can go fish!
Looks like they stopped spilling overnight! Good luck, I may try to go Sunday while we are in the 50's.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaredsmith
Try the lock side with (2) 1/32oz tube jigs with red/white on bottom and chartruse/black on the top tied about 7" inches apart.Fish off the rocks near the end of the lock wall.Be carefull reeling back in when you get close to the bank as there is lots of broke off fishing line that will snag your baits.
Fish as slow as you possibly can!! without getting hung up.
Here is my Pickwick bank fishing setup--basically the same since 1984 when i started fishing off the bank at Pickwick.6lb test Shakespeare omni flex from Wallyworld---it is supercheap and I have never had a fish break it off while bank fishing at Pickwick and a size 20 Quantum Snapshot spinning reel and a Berkley light/med rod with a fast tip.Bring about 3-4 rod reel setups so you can swap colors quickly and when you break off you can just pick up another rod.
And be very carefull walking on the rocks it is very easy to fall and a trip to Hardin County Hospital would not be fun!! I have seen some people have big time falls!!
I might try it next weekend then. Might just keep a 1/32 oz. in the water while sauger fishing too just to see what happens. Thanks guys
Well Sunday will still be fairly warm but the now forecast 40 mph winds will keep me home. Even below the dam that much wind is too much for boating.:banghead
Sorry bout that yea i meant 1/32 oz jighead.
Guy's your just beating a dead horse to find crappie around Savannah. Not saying you will not find one but for the most part its tough this time of the year. I have fished that section of the river for 40+ years and have loaded the boat with crappie. But most times its not this time of year. I can think of 4 or 5 spots that you can.
(1)And one being like the post above South side of the lock wall fishing off the bank is best. Lots of limits coming from there each morning.
(2) Between the dam and the wing wall, but its tough fishing but big crappie in there.
(3) Slack water at Nash landing down from the dam, under the power lines idle back up until it widens out and theres always crappie back up there.
(4) Check out the creek mouths, some of them will hold crappie this time of year.
(5) Little Shoot (SAvannah side) of Diamond Island when the waters right will hold some crappie on the trees along the east bank.
(6) dead water at Wolf Island has crappie but man there tough to find. But find them and you have fun until the cows come home. They will be in a tight school there and have to force feed them. As in leave a jig or minnow in front of them for up to 5 minutes and one will suck it down. I have a few PVC crappie beds in there but for some reason they have not pulled the fish in to them? And I have caught sauger off them but not Crappie?
(7) Slow current for a few days fish will hold on the lower sides of the BRidge at savannah. Those pilings holding the bridge up are not solid all the way to the bottom. They have few round concrete pilings to bottom the rest is open. And will hold fish, but again hard to fish
I know this is not lot of help. But hope it can get you started. I sure plan on getting out for the first sauger trip next week. Need to find someone to go with me.
All I have gotten to do all winter is tie up sauger jigs not getting to use them. But durn back is just going to have to hurt. I'm going fishing. Have Artic Armour and cold weather is not an issue.