Thread: You know what weird about Florida

It seems that in other states people fish for crappie year around. Here in Florida very few people fish for crappie outside of winter-spring. Most people wait for the first big cold front of winter to start fishing. From that point on the lakes are flooded with daytime drifter and nightstalkers. What is it about this first big cold front? Does this cause schooling and aggresive feeding.

Have tried to figure that out for a couple of years, knowing a few guys are getting good catches of nice fish, after trying everything am considering a set of clubs. When the water temp hits 72 to 74 will go again. Won't bother going anymore with water temps over 80. Most lakes in Fl. don't have the structure(would be nice).

they dont know any better or they want the easy catch.i lived in fl my whole life and fished and caught crappie year round

florida SPECKS are smarter than their yankee relatives. up north they will take any color jig at any time our SPECKS realize that their food is not naturaly hot pink, rainbow, or your college team colors. and we dont have deep water structure which northern fish tend to have so our SPECKS scatter alot more following shad, minnows, or crawdads which are affected by water temp. but thats my opinion.

yankee relatives...lmao....i was born and rised in jacksonville area...but the most diff. thing i see is that alot of our waters stay cooler most of the year and the structure is also a main factor....i do crappie fish all year long but somtimes its not worth it when you gotta fish 25+ feet deep and still catching dinks

That’s a good point. Tournament bass fishermen say that Florida bass are harder to catch. I think that because the lakes are so hot, shallow and featureless that catching crappie here is not as straightforward as it is in more northern reservoirs.