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Went out for a little fishing at about 12:30 this afternoon and in about 2 hours got 9 nice ones. Most were female full of eggs. They were in water from 6 1/2' to about 8 1/2'. Plenty enough for us to fry a little tomorrow.
Had 3 that were over 13" and I think the smallest was 12" so all nice ones.
Here is a pic...
Skip
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Nice catch Skip.What color combo's did you use?
I went yesterday too, but only for an hour and got 3 that I gave away. At that spot and with clouds I used a FL Red/FL Green Crystal Antron/ Bllack Barred Chart marabou tail.
Today I started there and the sun was out, but that color still worked, but then I moved and the water was a bit clearer at that spot. So I went with Silver/FL Yellow Chenille/White with blue tips crosscut rabbit tail and it paid off.
All were Roadrunners.
Skip
Looks like it would be just enough for me.lol I can eat a mess of fish. pretty nice black crappie Skip.
nice catch,congrats
now that is a pretty mess of crappie!
Nice catch! I do a fair share of jig trolling, but not too much in spring. Usually more in late summer and fall in deeper water. Looks Yummy!!!
Probably 95% of my spring fishing is trolling water 4'-14' depending on how far into spring it is. Started this type fishing in about 1978.Quote:
Originally Posted by AtticaFish
Skip
:D I was one then! :D lolQuote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
Seriously, what head wt size do you use if your only in 4' of water? Like I said, most of my trolling is in 20' plus... with 1/8 heads. Never used road runners, :o have always used clip on spinner. Not quite trolling either, more like paddling in reverse in a 8' kayak with 2 poles between my legs. :D Late summer I usually go fast enough to keep my setup from hitting bottom and zig zag open water, fish alot of upground reservoirs with no cover and have done well with this. Not even sure how small rr heads go, but do you bump up your speed? Normaly early spring I slow down everything I do.
Nice batch a Black's Skip their moving shallow on Me right now never have fished this lake during the spawn gotta find their holding route's on their way to the bed's.
Okay what I do is start off with setting my trolling motor on 3 on a variable speed TM. Then adjust for the wind and fish. I use 1/32 oz. head, Roadrunner or regular jig. I do like marabou best for this, but hackle works very well too. If I go slow enough the bream will even start hitting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by AtticaFish
I guess my speed is usually from .8 to maybe 1.2 MPH. I cast out the 1/32 oz jig as far as I can either to the side or to the back on the side and let the TM pull it back to where it will ride. I usually find them in a small depth of water difference, meaning like yesterday I had to keep my boat in about 6' to 9' of water if I wanted a hit. Some times I will just keep going straight over a little more or less depth if I know the area and not far from me it will come back to my depth.
Also I find a spot where they are in and I will not be going that far before turning around to go back through. Most of my spots I will only use say 100' length or maybe a little more or even less. I have had spots where I could go like 100 yards back and forth over, but that is one of the longer ones.
Also if the wind is from the side I keep my rod on the same side the wind is blowing from to keep my line out of the big motor prop.
Skip
Your lake have Hydrilla? If so just find where you have some in 6' to 11' say and search until you catch one and note the water depth and then try to stay in that depth as close as you can. Right now I am finding them in a depth that there should be some fish in for the entire spring and something even to June 1st. Once you know they have moved in really shallow you can just kind of TM down the bank and just flip your jig out to the bank and pull it along and keep doing that if you find them stay close to that spot for a bit. I usually can catch some for a couple of weeks in that 2' of water or close to that. When I do this I am using a 10' pole and have about 12'-14' of line out and don't even use the reel.Quote:
Originally Posted by flatfish46
Other than that I troll I will do the under bobber thing some around the hydrilla in that same say 4'-7' of water. However long line trolling makes up most of my fishing in the spring.
Skip
Very nice, Good for you
Nice catch, Skip. Good to see you take a break from tying to get out and enjoy the fruits of your work.
By the way, thanks for the explanation on trolling. I'm gonna try a little bitta that this year.
I have been doing that a long time and think maybe no one was doing that when I started trying it. I was on a flat one day and it was too windy so was just drifting along and started catching crappie. So I said to my self I can do this with my trolling motor even if the wind is not blowing, LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Black Crow
This was like 1978 and I was guiding for bass mostly, but every once in a while I would get some guys that also wanted crappie and this method saved my tail more than once. Had some great fall fishing that year in about 14' of water trolling Roadrunners.
I am sure someone else some where was also long line trolling, but not on this lake.
I moved away for a number of years to Corpus where I stayed in the salt water bays there. When I moved back you can imagine my surprise as to how many people were now trolling. When I have customers they would always say, I have never done this before.
Give it a try and don't give up too easy. Find the fish on sonar and see what depth of water they are in and troll that water. Don't worry too much about how deep they are. Last year late spring I even caught some in 20'+ water trolling a 1/32oz Roadrunner. I would probably most of the time go to 1/16 on a regular jig when deeper than 10'-12' or so.
Skip
There is two styles of trolling Long line trolling and spider trolling. you can get the magazine louisiana sportsman magazine and fishing magician from this site has an article in there on how to perform both styles of trolling. i have as well fished this style a lot and it is very affective. you can also troll with shiners instead of jigs or you can troll with jigs your choice. here is the website for the mag as well as what is in this months issue. you can see halfway down the page is this
Long and Short
By Terry L. Jones
There are as many ways to catch crappie as there are names for the tasty fish. Some prefer dipping a cork and shiner in tree tops, some use nothing but jigs in open water, and still others rig up multi-pole “spider rigs” with both jigs and shiners to fish flats and deep holes.
Louisiana Sportsman's - Contents for February 2009 - Volume 29 - Number 2
that is the article with pictures and all. this guy is very amazing at fishing and can catch a lot of fish. you can look up FM on the Louisiana crappie boards good luck to all and enjoy.
Skip: What is your water temp. right now?Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
Nice Crappie and I'm really starting not to like you guys down south way LOL
this Ice and snow better get out QUICK!!!!!!!!! And if it doesn't I just might have to open the back door and send the snow down your guys way !!!!!!
Fatman
Yesterday it was 62.Quote:
Originally Posted by Len
Skip
Weather permitting I don't usually see water temps in the sixties until late May or early June. It seems to take forever to get here!Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu