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5:30-8 AM this morning on Old Hickory (Cedar Creek area): trolled creek edges, trolled flats in 12-18 fow, jigged docs everywhere from 6.5-25 fow. Double jig rigs variety of colors, 4 poles out most of the time, caught 0 crappie! Kept two nice eating size catfish and caught several small bass. Beautiful morning on the lake and was great to be out there with my 84 year old grandpa. But, I need some serious help finding the crappie!

I feel confident I've tried about all of the areas crappie "should" be this time of year. I'm seeing good structure on my ff. I have to be doing something wrong with presentation. My boat is not really set up for spider rigging/trolling and that may be most of my problem?

-My tm is too fast and I don't have rod holders and because of my speed I'm not confident of my bait depths.
-The rod tips are probably too close to the tm and boat due to lack of rod holders.
-I have tried to compensate for speed by adding a 3/4 egg sinker between the two 1/16 oz jig heads but I think it is robbing a lot of jig action.
-I also try going off and on w tm, but my boat is so small and light any movement or on/off action causes lots of rocking and swaying. Wake from another boat gets my boat rocking for 2-3 min and rod tips are up and down up and down. I've noticed a lot of spider riggers are in much heavier boats that tend to keep rod tips more steady in these scenarios.

All in all, I don't know what the heck I'm doing and these are my best guesses as to the reason I'm not getting any crappie. Even with all of this, I've drug enough jigs through enough water, I should have picked up a couple the past 2 trips out I would think. Any advice would be much appreciated. Or better yet, if someone wants to mentor me in trolling for summer time crappie in Mid-TN, I will happily buy gas and food and bait!