Thread: Following them out.

I am normally done with the crappie during the day time by mid April because I spider rig shallow. This year I have stayed with it trying to figure out how to catch them year around. Its still early but i started catching them in February in 3 FOW and now I’m catching them from 15-25 FOW. Its been fun trying to figure out what they are doing. The last month I have been fishing at least one day a weekend and catching anywhere from 50-80 crappie per day and bringing home 15-20. Friday I started in 25 FOW catching some fishing and trolling around different depths until found a good many fish in 15 FOW. ended up catching 70 crappie total brought home 30 over 10 inches with a couple 2lb fish to boot. The better fish have definitely moved deeper. I need to do better about taking pictures, I normally don’t think about it until I’m going to post.

Spider rigging shallow with 5 ft of line out is way different than spider rigging and trying to keep a jig 10 plus ft deep with 14-20ft of line out. It had me messed up the first few fish I was catching. Im normally stripping line off the reel to get the fish in, I was having to reel. I didn’t know how to act lol. I’ve also located some brush piles/trees while trolling with sidescan on. I’m going to go back one day casting and jigging see what I can catch. I can say that livescope has helped alot with watching the fish in the water column and how they react when the jigs go by. Pretty cool stuff.