Quote Originally Posted by Inkdabber View Post
With these warmer temperatures, a full moon, and the month of April, with a doubt some fish will be caught by casting to the banks. But if you wish to truly catch'em good, then long line trolling would be the technique of choice. Once the the water warms, the fish become more aggressive. Long lining allows you to cover lots of water. With the fish in all stages, pre spawn, spawn, and post spawn. By moving a lot and covering lots of water you increase your odds of intercepting fish in all stages.
Guess I am doing something wrong. It seems pretty simple to just drag some jigs behind the boat but obviously there is a lot more to it. I use some tips from here and pull different colors, different jig head weights, speeds from about 0.7 to 1.0 but not catching crappie. I did provide a community service and pull out a few miles of monofilament line. Amazing how many people seem to lose an entire reel full of line. How do you go about finding the fish, deciding on depth, etc.? If you were fishing a creek that you had never been on, how would you go about breaking it down?