What to do?
Question: If you fish a lake regularly, do you ever find it that the crappie "get use" to your presentations and turn them down after repeated tries? We practice catch & release exclusively on some of our waters, but have been noticing a declining number of catches. We mainly drift fish the open waters, but we also cast the shallows and have tried some trolling. All yield about the same. I know they are not up in the trees (!) and we check out various depths every time out.
Now these waters we fish are bowl shaped, with little to no bottom structure changes, or cover. They average between 16' - 24' deep and we've found most of our fish by open water drifting, with 1/8 oz. jigs & plastic dressings. (And no, we are not open to using live bait. Sort of like a fly fisherman's perspective.)
Thanks for any suggestions/inputs.
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