What's the deepest you guys have vertical jigged crappie? Thanks
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What's the deepest you guys have vertical jigged crappie? Thanks
For me I will fish off a closed one lane bridge mostly till this year. It's 8 ft to the water and it's 21' deep. Sometimes the fish are on the bottom...
45 to 50 foot of water right on the bottom!!!!!!
32 ft for me. Got a buddy that was fishing bluffs for them last week....they were so deep they were dead when he gottem to the surface.
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I catch them through the ice in 35’ of water pretty commonly. In the summer I fish a lot at night in the same area and most of the fish will be in the upper 15’ but there are often some near the bottom even then. I’m not sure what it’s like during the day, I’m a lot better at catching them in the dark.
25 ft for me
Glad to see it's not a problem doing it deep. Next question was do you have any luck doing it at night but looks like that question got answered too. I'm pretty sure i'll be trying it a lot at night with livescope when it gets really tough on my local lake in summer. Do you guys do this too? Thanks
In my limited experience, you'll have to keep every one you bring to the surface from that depth. I don't think they'll survive catch and release from that deep. Keep that in mind if you have a minimum length limit.
i don’t have Livescope, I fish at night with a light and a flasher. I hang a couple lights in the middle of the boat and fish off the end with the flasher transducer hanging over the side. That tells me where the fish are and where my jig is in relation to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
Quin, thanks. I'm not talking about using a light just going around searching or going to known brush piles & dropping on them. Do you think this will work ok? Thanks
when we hit water depths here below 25 or so we often use braid . I have let them jigs fall to depths of the 40 foot plus range a few times and that is lots of mono , 40 foot of mono and stretch and quite a few folks set the hook several times per fish at that depth using mono and yes I seen it done often in deep water crappie at one location we hit. :highfive
Ketchn, thanks. I'd be using braid & you've answered my question. :ThumbsUp
I’ve dipped up to 40’. Dipping is my main style of fishing. Braid is all I use. Mono be a nightmare deep.
They feed at night anyway, it might work better on nights with a bright moon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Les Young
35 ft is about the deepest. Where I fish it’s only during the coldest part of winter.
Most of the time I use long poles ( 12 &14) ft. I’ve recently switched to braid. I’m using 50 lb braid and 8 & 10 lb mono leader.
I use the large braid to cut down on tangles and it allows me to pitch jigs to cover when the fish are shallow
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Sometimes 40’’ft at the Chicken coop on Toledo Bend
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One of the best crappie fisherman around these parts regularly pulls em up from 53 feet on JPP in the winter.
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40 feet deep
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I have cranked them up out of 45 feet before but more often 25-35 in the winter.
Usually when they come up that deep you have to slap them pretty hard on the water when releasing to wake them up before they will swim back down. And they will not live very long in the livewell.
Wow. I would have to fish in the middle of our river to even find 35 foot depths or deeper. Our creeks off the river are only 20 foot deep at their mouths.
The deepest I've caught crappie on the rock ledges here in January was 16 feet.
Yet Richard Gene catches fish year round in less that 10 feet of water.
I believe Richard has internal livescope.