Definition of a Crappie Hole!

Attachment 174501Attachment 174502this spot is about 8ft deep where my pole is. Water is running slowly under a a bridge that crosses the river. The secret to a good Crappie shot to me is making sure that I am able to find a spot where fish "MUST pass thru" I call it a SlabStreet under water. If u can find a spot with running water than that means that the crappie will always be on the move because they dont sit still in running water. With this spot, im basically sitting, and waiting for slab to stroll by and knock the heck outta my jig. I limit out(25fish) almost everytime i hit this spot if the water is flowing right. Slims Fish Camp, Belleglade, Fl

It`s also called a `choke point`; a bottle neck fish tend to find it easiest to move along...

whats a bottle neck fish

A place where movement is basically restricted. In the military it would be called a "kill zone". An opponent is forced to try to move quickly thru it and escape or add to the heaps staying there...

There you go again Jiganomics! How many of those trick holes you got?

I like "kill zones" too. Easy now CC, easy, let's not get testy

Testy? Heck I'm thinkin about moving to Florida just to hang out with the guy! He is the Baron of Bank Fishing!

Nice, I gotta look for some of those on my river.

Choke points are heavily used by fish because food (prey) is also funneled into this restricted zone, making them vunerable to being eaten. If it`s good enough for the fish to use, you should too...

My secret weapon is Google Maps RiverSlab. I use it to find anomalies in rivers, canals and Lakes. If there is sometin wierd like a culvert, a point or running water then its holdin fish and im usually go check it out.

Bridge pillars are current breaks, whether they're in a river, creek, or lake ... and they provide eddy water areas out of the current. Crappie like eddy water, so they don't have to expend energy swimming against the current. The concrete pillars also tend to collect algae, which is sometimes fed upon by baitfish. When you combine all the ingredients ... shade, cover, eddy water, baitfish ... then you have definitely found a "Crappie Hole" !!

... cp :kewl

I knew this for a very long time but never knew exactly how to decribe it. Good job here CrappiePappy. You really know your stuff.....so wait....crappie eat algea too?

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Bridge pillars are current breaks, whether they're in a river, creek, or lake ... and they provide eddy water areas out of the current. Crappie like eddy water, so they don't have to expend energy swimming against the current. The concrete pillars also tend to collect algae, which is sometimes fed upon by baitfish. When you combine all the ingredients ... shade, cover, eddy water, baitfish ... then you have definitely found a "Crappie Hole" !!

... cp :kewl

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Originally Posted by Jiganomics

....so wait....crappie eat algea too?

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I don't think so. Not as a food source, anyway.

White Crappie are predominantly small fish eaters ... shad, various minnow species, fry of other species.
Black Crappie are not quite as fickle, eating all of those same "small fish species" plus insects, worms, & crustaceans.

... cp :kewl

DO keep in mind brush/ trees held in place against bridge pilings create enormous `eddy` or slack water that crappies and many other predators will readily exploit if possible. If you can SAFELY do so, so should you !

So in a moving river, the downstream side of a brush pile is always best??

Usually; am not saying fish won`t use the interior of a log jam, but GOOD LUCK horsing them outta there !