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Been fishing this particular lake for years now and always seemed to catch about equal amount of white vs black crappie. Seems lately we have just been catching the white crappie. Where are the black crappie at? Have they moved to a different part of the lake? Moved deeper, shallower, etc... Just curious as the other day my buddy and I noticed everything we caught was white crappie. We were fishing the usual spots, laydowns, rocks, drop offs, etc. Any insight to this?
From my experience in the fall to winter the blacks move a little deeper and spread out more to isolated cover where as the whites tend to bunch up more on mid depth range brush, example would be the other day I caught 15 fish limit off one brush pile on a ledge from 12-23 ft deep all whites with one black that came off the bottom on the 23 ft side next day fished isolated cribs and brush in 23-27 ft water and the catch rate was 50-50 black and white,
What he said.
Sorry but the Smart A== in me tells me to say I find them in the water :Rofl
I usually catch mine in the mouth.
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Up here in NW Pa, I’m catching them in very shallow 41* water real close to the trunks on deadfalls. Only fishing three feet deep. Yesterday I found a school of 12” blacks there. Took my 20 fish limit and just threw back everything under 11”. I downsized my jig body and used a 1/32 head with no split shot under a tiny bobber just big enough to hold that jig. They were destroying that bait.
These feesh love that cold water......I see the same in my lakes....Quote:
Originally Posted by chaunc
i managed only one black yesterday in a lake that that has very few of them in it .
it was the shallowest crappie of the trip in 8 foot of water , the rest were whites out in 14 to 17 .
the boat drifted in to close and i said hey brother the wind pushed us in to shallow .
the words barely came out of my mouth when it thumped the jig .
every lake seems different to me , but i often find black crappie a bit shallower than whites in a lot of spots year round .
Hmm, interesting replies so far. Guess we just need to look a little harder for them. Everywhere we targeted and could see the fish on fish finders they were white crappie. Thanks for the replies.
We have been catching a few blacks in a lake that is dominate with white crappie. Like already stated we have continued to catch the white crappie 10-18 feet deep. While the brush we have fished in 22-30 foot of water has produced the blacks. I didn’t really put it all together until reading this post. But no that I recall we have not caught a black in any of the shallower spots.
Up here in the Nort country Whites are more open basin suspended where Blacks like to hang around some type of cover, depending on lake Blacks may be shallower or deeper then Whites but some type of close cover seems to be key.
i would tend to agree on this part of the subject as well, black crappie in these parts are rare in open water conditions .Quote:
Originally Posted by Bricks
cover is their thing most of the time .they seem to be pretty tight to it most spots i hit .
One of my lakes I fish is mostly black crappie so they are everywhere but on my other lake that we had the tourneys on I use to target the black crappie since they usually hold more weight here than the white crappie but the past couple years the black crappie have almost disappeared on this lake..... It's rare to catch a tourney quality black crappie......
They've been hiding from me purdy good.....I say this to get the point over that lake are different and the fish have years that are really good and then years that are not.....
Feesh On:fish
black crappie here in our local lakes for sure run in cycles .
the fisheries department confirmed it with me years ago .
about every 3 years on some lakes is the peak year .
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Pulled in well over 100 in the last week in a few hour long sessions from the bank. Landed more big ones than any other time of the year. The cold weather has been excellent for crappie fishing!
they are in ridiculous numbers in the creek i hit the last 2 days along with about the same amount of whites ,about a 50 50 mix .
but so are about every kind of fish right now in that area . clouds of 2 inch shad are up in there and EVERY darn fish in the lake has followed them up in there .
average depth of around 5 foot of water .miles and miles of creek flat full of them and other fish right beside em .
Uuummmm Sir...... You do know that look like a lot of fun.....:cheers2
Those dang white's will make you think you hooked a 3lb crappy real quick.....LOL
Here I thought it was some kind of flying fish, trying to get out of his way. We all know that Ketchn has a reputation, and the fish know too. No thank you, cold water and a yak.
you know my friend when i hook something other than a crappie even on short line it goes like this ...Quote:
Originally Posted by SKs Crappie Catching Adventures
my bud says thats a good one ? i say not a crappie i am pretty sure :Rofl
there were A TON of "flying fish " my friend on this trip i promise :RoflQuote:
Originally Posted by S10CHEVY