Debunking Myths

I’m all the time reading or watching video for info. Some things I’ve tried and found they didn’t works for me. Hope y’all will share some. Gabowman posting about the Mud got me to thinking which is dangerous without the proper equipment. Ive hear Pro Crappie fishermen say they search for the muddiest water. Usually they are after White Crappie. I haven’t ever did better in muddy water over stained or clear. Another tip I hear that never works for me is Down Sizing the bait. Sometimes I think the more I watch the less I know. Worked about the same way when I deer hunted and played golf. Better to just go out and play the hand you’re dealed


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I think downsizing the bait works especially if the Crappie or any fish for that matter are short striking. Shortening the bait gets their mouths closer to the hook.

I believe small baits work best when the predominant forage at the time is small. Just after a shad spawn. Small baits would be great. Then increase size as the forage grows bigger

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I believe small baits work best when the predominant forage at the time is small. Just after a shad spawn. Small baits would be great. Then increase size as the forage grows bigger

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I think you’re right, I’m not saying small baits don’t catch fish. I’ve caught plenty on them. Just when I’m using B. Garlands and can’t get bit, changing to a small hasn’t helped me. When the bite is tuff instead of switching size and color I usually move on and hunt active fish, sometimes I’ll try the inactive fish later.


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Originally Posted by tackleboat

I think you’re right, I’m not saying small baits don’t catch fish. I’ve caught plenty on them. Just when I’m using B. Garlands and can’t get bit, changing to a small hasn’t helped me. When the bite is tuff instead of switching size and color I usually move on and hunt active fish, sometimes I’ll try the inactive fish later.


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I have this one dock I shoot. The lake bottom under the dock is covered in Christmas trees. The standard pattern for that dock was catch one or two fish and they would shut down on you. A color change was good for another 1 or 2 fish. I put on a itty bit slab huntr on and for an hour I hammered the fish out from under that dock. The size change really got to them.

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I have this one dock I shoot. The lake bottom under the dock is covered in Christmas trees. The standard pattern for that dock was catch one or two fish and they would shut down on you. A color change was good for another 1 or 2 fish. I put on a itty bit slab huntr on and for an hour I hammered the fish out from under that dock. The size change really got to them.

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Dang it, now you’ve messed me up!!??I’ll have to go back and retry downsizing again!![emoji35]


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I’ve had downsizing be the ticket as well. And sometimes even that doesn’t work. But I’m usually pretty quick to give it a try.

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Originally Posted by tackleboat

Dang it, now you’ve messed me up!!??I’ll have to go back and retry downsizing again!![emoji35]


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It had it's window of a few weeks where it was on fire for the small baits. Then they were wanting a bigger bait again. On the flip side. The big Slab HuntRs can have the same effect when the forage is running bigger

I've tried the muddy water that you could just see mud swirls, no visibility, and never did much good. That said...now 3" visibility and it was ON!




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I fished the rock saturday. Creek I was in had about 1-2 inch visibility. You had to sneak up on them and bang them on the head a few times with the jig but once you got their attention, they smacked it.

I have had some very good trips fishing muddy waters. The one thing that people make mistakes about muddy water is jig colors. Most think they need to use dark color jigs for muddy to hard stained water but the opposite works most of the time. You need to really work these waters and try different colors until you find the one working for that day and ' don't ' over look a white jig. If you can find a well pronounced mud line as it is mixing with stained even clear water fish it, you may be amazed by the fish using this line.

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Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I have this one dock I shoot. The lake bottom under the dock is covered in Christmas trees. The standard pattern for that dock was catch one or two fish and they would shut down on you. A color change was good for another 1 or 2 fish. I put on a itty bit slab huntr on and for an hour I hammered the fish out from under that dock. The size change really got to them.

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And that's why they call you DockShootinJack. :highfive

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Originally Posted by STUMP HUNTER

...If you can find a well pronounced mud line as it is mixing with stained even clear water fish it, you may be amazed by the fish using this line.

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Ronnie, last spring I caught Broad coming down muddy and I seen that well pronounced line between mud and light stained water. It was a slow moving mudline as the water seened to be almost still with no winds or currents from dam operations. I trolled that line almost half way across the river and back several times and limited out on good sized fish holding right along that transition line. That pronounced mud line isnt something you find often...especially in the Broad River section of Clark Hill Lake.