South Point this is what Berger Creek looked like when water went down

[perchplucker]

Oct. 8, 2011

[perchplucker]

Past the trees is also a log jam that was there when water was going down.

[Hogster1]

Would have been a good time to anchor some brush in and drive afew stake beds.

[south point]

thanks for the pic. dang, that looks like a muddy mess! nature needs to flush that toilet! Lol!
thats more-or-less what the mouths of the creeks look like around here too. a good daylong downpour will fix em good.
Hogster, in the missouri and its creeks,I'm not real sure how you would anchor any cover good enough so it stays in place more than a few months. my luck I'd spend a bunch of time driving steaks into a shallow flat then a week later a hard rain would hit and scour my flats into a 20ft hole. old trees wash out and new trees wash in so ya take what ya get. there is no lack for cover. Lol! we got steak beds, they're called pole dikes!

[crappieslab]

Man that is a spider rigging dream in the spring! The ledges are structure that the fish will follow up the creek to the laydowns. That pic makes my boat druel

[Hogster1]

thanks for the pic. dang, that looks like a muddy mess! nature needs to flush that toilet! Lol!
thats more-or-less what the mouths of the creeks look like around here too. a good daylong downpour will fix em good.
Hogster, in the missouri and its creeks,I'm not real sure how you would anchor any cover good enough so it stays in place more than a few months. my luck I'd spend a bunch of time driving steaks into a shallow flat then a week later a hard rain would hit and scour my flats into a 20ft hole. old trees wash out and new trees wash in so ya take what ya get. there is no lack for cover. Lol! we got steak beds, they're called pole dikes!

Well that makes perfect sense.I was not sure where it even was it just looked like a good spot for it.But i can understand now why you wouldn't bother with the effort when the current would tend to demolish all the hard work you put into it.

[south point]

Man that is a spider rigging dream in the spring! The ledges are structure that the fish will follow up the creek to the laydowns. That pic makes my boat druel

I have never tried rigging in the creeks. dunno why but I just never did. your probably right. I know the crappies migrate up the creeks, you can almost bet they are following the shad and the shad migrate up-creek every spring. of course if the water drops much more, them fish are gonna have to learn to walk! I bet on the right day a feller could wear out the crappies and white bass??? if ya can keep your hooks out of the brush.
when I crappie fish the creeks, its usually one pole and 1 jig/minner and dipping the brush and other cover, or slipfloating a jig. in my experience, the crappies in the creek tend to bite light, so I have the pole in hand and fast to set the hook. if I get a slam it's usually a white bass or a channel cat.

[bugman]

Man that is a spider rigging dream in the spring! The ledges are structure that the fish will follow up the creek to the laydowns. That pic makes my boat druel

I WAS THINKIN THE SAME THING.....classic spot with no cover needed on a channel break like that.