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I finally figured out how to catch a few. For me, the trick was to stay on top of them using DI and minnows. My dad and I caught 10 to 1 with minnows versus plastics. It was the perfect day.
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Nice catch and thanks for sharing
Welcome from Central Florida. Congrats on a good days catch.
Nice mess of fish, and Welcome aboard
Nice catch! Congratulations to you and your father.
Chris
Congrats. Were you spider rigging or jigging structure?
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That's some kind of a filet knives you got there.
Nice mess of fish
First of all welcome to the site, it's the best you will find. That is a very nice mess of fish and I love the way you found them and then caught them.
By the way North Carolina has it own forum page if you want to post there and also read some local info. It's found here,
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/north-carolina/
"gene"
:welcome from South Central Mississippi. Wow! Nice mess of crappie. Get the grease hot that's going to be some good eating there for sure. Thanks for the report and picture.
Nice mess. Glad you had a good day.
Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.
Those knives are my dads, "do everything, knives". He's uses them for everything. I did have a fillet knife though for filleting.
I found some structure on myside scan and then switched to down scan and saw something (not sure what itwas). Then spotted a school ofsomething.I dropped a minnow straightdown about 8 to 12 feet and that was it.
They were crappie.
I figured out somethingelse. Before we left, I reloaded my dadsreel with hi-viz yellow 6lb test line. Idid not tie a clear line leader to it and he was catching nothing while I wascatching. I put a clear 6lb leader onand he started catching too. I had readthat crappie didn’t care about line color but that group certainly did. I thought that was strange but I’m new tocrappie fishing.
I was using a barrow swivel witha plain hook about 8 inches from that for the minnow and a 1/32 jig head withplastic on it about 8 inches from that and a weight tied to the end. I was catching on the minnow probably 10 to1.
Hopefully I answered all the questions.
Excellent! Glad you got them figured out......now to just keep them figured out!
Looks like some mighty tasty dinner there.
Thanks for posting.
Welcome from NW PA