Ok guys, we’ve got a tournament this weekend in Santa Fe and we know nothing about the place and we have never fished water that deep.
Open to suggestions and advice on how to pull this lake and with what?
Thanks, Matthew and Tracy
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Ok guys, we’ve got a tournament this weekend in Santa Fe and we know nothing about the place and we have never fished water that deep.
Open to suggestions and advice on how to pull this lake and with what?
Thanks, Matthew and Tracy
Pull it like any other, add pinch weights to get the depth you need.
Santa Fe is relatively clear. Light colors seem to do best. It is a threadfin shad based food chain. Santa Fe is one of the few Florida lakes without a gizzard shad population. Smaller baits seem to do well for my fishing partner and I... but we don't fish Santa Fe as much as we should.
The other characteristic of Santa Fe is that the crappie usually stay deep unless actually spawning. And they stay near the bottom after the sun gets up. Not unusual to have them at 18 feet in 20 feet of water.
Just my limited 2 cents. Probably worth a cent and a half. :)
Tom
The times we fished there we found they preferred Sliders and baby shad swimmers, that smaller profile seems spot on.
If the wind comes up fish the little lake there is also good fish in there and even there stick with deep water. Don
Um, OP asks a question, then disappears.
Tom
We finished 4th overall and 3rd place big fish today. Very tough windy conditions and we caught all of our fish about 20 feet deep.
Caught over 40 fish total today
Where did you find them?
We got on our best fish and most numbers of fish on the west end of the big lake. Our two biggest fish were 1.60 and 1.62 pounds.
I am pretty sure the top 2 teams were in the little lake most of the day and 3rd and 4th were on the west end of the big lake.
These fish were deep, like waaaaay deep. Deeper than I have ever pulled for Crappie before.
At one point about noon we went through one spot and had all 8 rods on the boat bent over at one time and my kid had two doubles on the back of the boat at that time. I couldn’t get em off and in the livewell as fast as he was catching them in that small area
We have found that to be true this Summer in the clear water lakes we fish. We push jigs that deep and I can see where they are running on the LiveScope. Those are good weights for that lake. DonQuote:
Originally Posted by Matt'sDad