Curious how fall crappie fishing is affected with cold fronts and rain like today. Thinking about putting boat in just wondering how fish react.
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Curious how fall crappie fishing is affected with cold fronts and rain like today. Thinking about putting boat in just wondering how fish react.
Me too! Hope someone lets us know.
First off you have to be very diverse in your search. Sometimes a front can kill the bite and other times can spark it. I'm one of those who feel they're biting someplace, somewhere. When I say diverse, I don't mean looking in the same depths in different places. I am changing depths, slope of bank, brush vs bigger timber, flats with stumps and logs that have been washed in and silted into the bottom, river eddys, bridge trestles, even something as simple as following a creek channel using a split screen on a graph that shows a map and a downscan picture. You'd be amazed of how many drop offs and old school trees that are still embedded into those out of the way channels. With todays graphs, it's so much easier to locate fish so ignore the areas without fish and don't stay too long on a spot with docile fish.
Fresh bait, live or dead can sometimes wake up and activate the bite on the docile Crappie. Once you've got them to start biting, switch to a jig and they'll most likely hit it.
The biggest thing for me is to not stay in one place too long if you're not getting bit. You have to mix it up is the bottom line. Don't get stuck on fishing one way or there is a chance you'll have a nice clean livewell for storage just like Hat55.
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Originally Posted by Crappie Reaper
Now that's what I call a very informative and honest answer. I've fished Oolagah for 30 years off and on and have not been able to find Crappie except for a couple times a year. (naturally spawn time)
I have been reading this news letter for a while and have learned quite a bit. I've only recently traded boats and now have a good locator on the trolling motor and am looking forward to getting back on the lake. Bronchitis has had me down for a month now and I'm going stir crazy.
When I get back up there, how can I identify and say hi to some of you guys who obviously do well on Oolagah. I have an old blue Ranger boat and will be looking for y'all soon.
I have an aluminum boat with a blue T top. I also have CDC sticker on the side. and if you get close enough, i will be the guy with the empty livewell!
I'm in a white Lund with a Crappie Fishermen of Texas decal on the side and I am eating something- and Ledge mislead you about his live well and failed to mention his most obvious feature; his boat, Hydrotherapy, is 45 cubits long and filled with animals.
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Originally Posted by Crappie ciller
I think I've seen the Lund up there before. I'll be looking for you. I have put 24 attractors in up on the north end around the bridge and general vicinity, hope they're covered with moss by now. They're made of concrete blocks, cement and pvc tubing.
Have anybody done any good lately with all this wind?
With fall around the corner thought i would repost this thread to boost some convo and incase somone missed reapers reply some really good info
Water temp was 79 on wed what temp range will thing s start change will They be going deeper into the creeks or move to channels? Im ready have grinded over the last week searching for bigger fish. I am ready!
Fall is about shad. Its always about shad actually, but fall much more so. They will be mostly shallow. If you can find a deep channel cutting thru a part of the lake that has extensive shallow (4-8 feet deep) flats, you should have as much fishing as you can handle until a winter pattern sets in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crappiehunter918
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Chris is 100 percent correct. About any time of the year it's about baitfish especially in the fall and winter. If you can figure out the shad migration on your lake in the fall, you have half the battle won. It will take some time on the water but a good place to start is in the feeder creek arms and rivers. When the water temp starts falling in the fall you normally get a big push of shad moving into the feeder creek arms along with the river channels. The crappie will follow. Probably not a better time of the year to use live bait. Some years like this year when there hasn't been a shad kill for a long time and there is millions of shad, it's a bigger challenge. Look for cover along ledges and drop offs where shad tend to travel. If you can find both, you have hit a gold mine. Shallow bays and coves are also good. Spider rigging is good in the spring and summer but unreal in the fall.