2) Crappie Fishing Tips and Techniques Archives - Crappie Fishing https://www.crappie.com/category/crappie-fishing-tips-and-techniques/ All about crappie fishing Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:30:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.crappie.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/crappie_com-150x100.png 2) Crappie Fishing Tips and Techniques Archives - Crappie Fishing https://www.crappie.com/category/crappie-fishing-tips-and-techniques/ 32 32 Perch jerking for early springtime crappie fishing by Brad Wiegmann https://www.crappie.com/perch-jerking-for-early-springtime-crappie-fishing-by-brad-wiegmann/ https://www.crappie.com/perch-jerking-for-early-springtime-crappie-fishing-by-brad-wiegmann/#respond Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:22:00 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=2295 For this fishing guide one technique has proven to be effective year after year. “This technique is what we call perch jerking. The rod goes down and you snatch it out of the holder then you get it in the boat quick,” said crappie fishing guide Tim Howell. Howell noted that long poles utilizing the […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/perch-jerking-for-early-springtime-crappie-fishing-by-brad-wiegmann/feed/ 0 High pressure system winter time crappie fishing by Brad Wiegmann https://www.crappie.com/high-pressure-system-winter-time-crappie-fishing/ https://www.crappie.com/high-pressure-system-winter-time-crappie-fishing/#respond Mon, 21 Dec 2020 00:40:00 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=2015 It’s every crappie angler’s worst nightmare. A high pressure system moves in after a great bite with falling pressure. You go from catching them to just praying for a bite. There’s nothing you can do about the weather or colder water temperatures in the winter time. A prolong period of stable high pressure normally results […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/high-pressure-system-winter-time-crappie-fishing/feed/ 0 Did you know this about Garmin LiveScope https://www.crappie.com/did-you-know-this-about-garmin-livescope/ https://www.crappie.com/did-you-know-this-about-garmin-livescope/#respond Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:10:41 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=1138 You might be surprised to find that there is more to Garmin LiveScope then Panoptix Down. As crappie anglers go Panoptix LiveScope is by far the most popular imaging of all the seeing sonar technology. However, there more to LiveScope than Panoptix LiveScope. Garmin’s Panoptix Forward and Panoptix Down complete the all family of the […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/did-you-know-this-about-garmin-livescope/feed/ 0 Every crappie angler needs to know this – by Brad Wiegmann https://www.crappie.com/crappie-fishing-depth/ https://www.crappie.com/crappie-fishing-depth/#respond Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:38:00 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=843 It doesn’t matter if you are trolling crankbaits or jigs for crappie. You have to know how deep your lure or lures are running or diving too. Too deep or too shallow and you’re not going to catch them. Then once you find what depth the crappie are holding you have to set your other […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/crappie-fishing-depth/feed/ 0 Precision Long-line Trolling by Brad Wiegmann https://www.crappie.com/precision-long-line-trolling-by-brad-wiegmann/ https://www.crappie.com/precision-long-line-trolling-by-brad-wiegmann/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:04:53 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=803 Long-lining crankbaits isn’t a new technique. Far from new, however, crappie fishing guide like Brad Chappell keep refining this technique. Chappell has taken it to the next level where he depends on electronics along with specific fishing tackle to present a lure precisely where he can catch crappie. He refers to this technique as precision […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/precision-long-line-trolling-by-brad-wiegmann/feed/ 0 Night Stalking for Crappie by Rango https://www.crappie.com/night-stalking-for-crappie/ https://www.crappie.com/night-stalking-for-crappie/#respond Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:17:41 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=539 The night was coming on fast as I picked up my fishing partner Gary Kunes at his dock and we set out for a night of Lake Wylie nightstalking for the slabs this lake is known for. As we set up and prepared the boat for a another night stalk I looked over our operation […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/night-stalking-for-crappie/feed/ 0 Spider Rigging How To Guide https://www.crappie.com/spider-rigging-how-to-guide/ https://www.crappie.com/spider-rigging-how-to-guide/#respond Mon, 25 Feb 2019 22:46:48 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=520 Spider Rigging Spider Rigging is actually pretty simple. It’s really just trolling real slow while your rods are in rod holders hanging out in front of and to the side of your boat. You troll/move your boat as slow as you can around structure and brush piles using jigs, jigs tipped with minnows, or just […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/spider-rigging-how-to-guide/feed/ 0 Catching Muddy Water Crappie by Brad Wiegmann https://www.crappie.com/catching-muddy-water-crappie-by-brad-wiegmann/ https://www.crappie.com/catching-muddy-water-crappie-by-brad-wiegmann/#respond Sat, 19 Jan 2019 15:40:12 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=1950 Some years it just seems like it rains everyday making your favorite fishing hole a muddy mess. Fishing in muddy water can be intimidating to some crappie anglers. Nevertheless,crappie can be caught in muddy water. “This has been one of those years when it has rained a lot and places with normally clear water conditions […]

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]]> https://www.crappie.com/catching-muddy-water-crappie-by-brad-wiegmann/feed/ 0 Power Trolling the Fin Spin Jig Heads By Bernard Williams https://www.crappie.com/power-trolling-the-fin-spin-jig-heads-by-bernard-williams/ https://www.crappie.com/power-trolling-the-fin-spin-jig-heads-by-bernard-williams/#respond Mon, 05 Nov 2018 01:47:16 +0000 https://www.crappie.com/?p=506 Being a competitive crappie fisherman takes lots of work and studying to stay on the cutting edge of this sport. You can’t discount any technique that catches fish, whether you like it or not. To outsmart the fish, you must employ different methods.  Power Trolling is a technique that many of us need to learn […]

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