Early morning fishing?

So, I get my minnows the day before, get on the lake by 630 am, ready to rip into the crappie and ZILCH.
So my question is, whats the typical feeding cycle for crappie during a summer day.
They were not in the brush early, that's for sure.
Tips?

Have to look for them Bret. They move around when the water gets this warm and some are going deep. I checked some brush piles the other day and didn't find fish on any of them. I talked with some guys that were fishing a bridge with limited success on the shady sides of the columns.

Brettw, How deep are you looking for them? My Friends are doing fairly well on them in the mornings. Try anywhere from 25-30 ft. Also it depends on if crappie are in the area you are fishing. Maybe it's time to move and give it break for awhile.

What lake were you fishing?

On the Hill we are finding them in the brush piles at daylight. The later it gets the slower the bite. I think one reason for that is the super clear water. They can see everything better once the sun gets up. Our best piles are in 15 to 18 fow anything deeper we don't catch as many but we are trolling over these piles so we may not be getting down to the deeper fish. Our piles have slowed the last few days but we have had a great post spawn season.

Well, I'll go against the grain and say I've been catching fish about 12' deep in 14'-17' of water. Before sunup I might throw my jigs out about half a throw which puts them about 9'-10' deep but when the sun pops up the fish will move closer to the bottom. It gets daylight around 5:45AM now so I try being at the ramp at that time and get to my fishing spot shortly there after. I fish about 4 hours and by then it is usually as hot as I feel comfortable fishing i9n so I'm ready to call it a day. I leave fish biting when I decide to quit due to the heat around 10 or 10:30AM.

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Fishing Wylie,
Brush anywhere from 18-30 ft. Coming up from the bottom about 10 ft.
Thing is I wore them our last week in the high sun and heat. So naturally, I head back to the spot early, not one bite, on any of my CK glory holes.

Could just be an off day also

Look deeper GrassHopper ! And most of your days you are off anyway !:Rofl

using wrong bait == get Ron or John to get u some them no holds bard mercy catch um or die tryin uncle remus line slide BLUE MINNERS == do the trick every time :Rofl

Yens is having a barrel of laughs now !
A poor fellow slab seeker comes to this group, his adopted crappy family and he gets abused, rejected and generally tossed in like a floatin' net.

As an avid brush fishermen I too will go against the grain. During late spring, brush will be good early in the morning and throughout the day, as the water warms, the fish tend to scatter and feed in the early, low light conditions returning to the security of the brush as the sun gets higher in the sky. I fish brush from 6 to 24 feet deep, all will, and do hold fish regardless of how hot it gets. It's not the warmth of the water that dictates where the fish live, it's the oxygen content and forage base. If you have brush near moving water (creek or river) or wind blown, you have a fertile environment that will hold fish. Main lake, open water brush will produce early as the brush tends to hold bait as well as predators. Creek brush tends to be better during the hottest parts of the day. The upper layer of water, is the part that holds the most oxygen, it is not uncommon to catch fish a few inches under the surface, regardless of how deep the brush piles are. Crappie are notorious for suspending well above, and away from the brush piles themselves. As summer continues to heat up, casting jigs and minnows will out produce a vertical presentation.

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Originally Posted by Inkdabber

As an avid brush fishermen I too will go against the grain. During late spring, brush will be good early in the morning and throughout the day, as the water warms, the fish tend to scatter and feed in the early, low light conditions returning to the security of the brush as the sun gets higher in the sky. I fish brush from 6 to 24 feet deep, all will, and do hold fish regardless of how hot it gets. It's not the warmth of the water that dictates where the fish live, it's the oxygen content and forage base. If you have brush near moving water (creek or river) or wind blown, you have a fertile environment that will hold fish. Main lake, open water brush will produce early as the brush tends to hold bait as well as predators. Creek brush tends to be better during the hottest parts of the day. The upper layer of water, is the part that holds the most oxygen, it is not uncommon to catch fish a few inches under the surface, regardless of how deep the brush piles are. Crappie are notorious for suspending well above, and away from the brush piles themselves. As summer continues to heat up, casting jigs and minnows will out produce a vertical presentation.

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This is CK and I approve of this post. Kidding aside Inkdabber that is some real good info for those that like to hunt in the brush. I like the most to go vertical because of the anticipation of the hit. We do sometimes forget to do horizontal fishing first around a brush pile then go vertical. A vertical bite is more fun to me then a horizontal bite even though a horizontal is more effective.
Call me crazy but I would rather have 20 bites vertical jig fishing in the brush then 50 spider rigging. I fish mostly for the fun of it and keep some for the grease.

I was assuming this:
Crappie are feeding at night and early morning, when the sun gets up they start to feel afraid and move back to the brush areas for security.
I think I was just out there too early for them to be back on the brush.
Nuts?

That 's fishing! Keep trying you 'll catch em.