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In very clear water where crappie tend to stay deeper, can anyone give some useful suggestions on how to catch crappie that I know are there. Flouracarbon leaders and straight Minnows and small jigs work ok in the fall, but the bite right now is dang hard to come by.
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Definitely use flourocarbon line, not sure how clear you are talking but the lakes I fish are usually 4-7 foot visibility and I use 8lb seaguar red label and it works great. If you are in visibility deeper than that I might go down to 4lb. Fish in clear water will spook easier too, stay back off them when you locate them and try casting jigs or if using minnows use a slip bobber. When using corks to, go with the smallest one possible, I've seen this make a huge difference between catching a few or putting liimits in the boat. Jigs I use in clear water are Bobby garland baby shad or slab players in colors, blue ice, patriot, hologram ghost with black or gray jig heads, sometimes I'll use an orange one too. But typically with clear water try colors that are more natural color to almost clear color like hologram ghost. Windy days can be a lot better too for the fact it makes the visibility less cause the waves and then you are less likely to spook them cause of that. Hope this helps and curious what is the visibility of the water your talking about?
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Your reply makes lots of sense and seems to be on target. On certain days I would be hesitant to Guess the visibility of this lake, but it extremely clear.
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Bay Springs ?
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Your lake sounds like a good lake to use planer boards. They will get your bait/jig out away from your boat. Also try fishing at night with green night lights that you sink about six feet. As far which planer boards, there are several good planer boards, I use Off Shore, and Church, but there are some good one's that are cheaper, like the green Opti.....Good Luck.
Go find some of crestliner's posts on fishing deep clear water. He fishes mainly with ultra lite tackle and 2 lb line. And he catches a ton of fish.
Got to be Bay springs.
Our lakes we fish are clear water lakes. Jeff at crappie magnets is designing crappie lures for fishing clear water lakes and streams.leland lures.com.their baits, SOS line and videos.
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Attachment 273549Attachment 273550 these crappie were caught from a clear water lake.on crappie magnet.baits.
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Man them fish sure are pale to be coming from clear water. They look the color of Arkubutla crappie...lol Good Job JackieQuote:
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I have only one small lake that I fish that is what I would consider crystal clear. I prefer to long line with smaller jigs or road runners or use floats with jigs or minners under them and pull them behind my small two man scamp. Slow speed helps and as mentioned natural colors help out a lot. Best days on this clear water for me is with cloud cover with a moderate wind, when the sun is bright and water is flat I struggle to get them to bite.
Very Very deep.They don't live very long in our live wells.Try to keep 10-15 to eat.have to deflate them.These crappie where just above the therocline.
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