fall bite question

**rapman1** · 08-26-2009, 11:51 AM

do crappie move in close as the water cools down? which month for lakes like shenango, pymatuning, and mosquito? i am beginning to get hooked on this stuff.

**gonefishintoday** · 08-26-2009, 12:39 PM

Hey Rap, how's life? Tough down here with some untimely recent passings of some friends including a beautiful co-worker that died much too young a few weeks back. Yes, the crappies do move with the cooling water as October progresses. Shenango is the only place we hit and the fall bite can be ravenous. Water temperature will dictate the movement and selection of bait. After sufficient cooling and turnover, minnows become more the ticket. Prior to that jig/nibble or microspoon/nibble are typcially the hot choice in the right color du jour. You can even shore fish some areas when the temperature gets right. We start thinking of heading up in late Sept or early Oct. Fish are typically on deeper structure then. After turnover and cooling later in the month and into November they can be anywere from the shoreline to the deeper structure. Maybe Chauncy will start talking Fish Together in the near future for some day during that period.

**chaunc** · 08-26-2009, 05:26 PM

Talk to mike and bob about getting a fish-together going around that time. I agree. Thats some of the best fishing all year.

**rapman1** · 08-26-2009, 05:45 PM

gone, our year parallels. how ya been, old friend? not sure why i quit crappie fishing decades ago, but coming here brought back memories of a good thing. these guys do know their stuff. maybe i will see you on the ice this year. should have my head screwed on straight and my heart back in it by then.