Whats your strategy?

[dblevens]

I'm fishing a local lake and I know that it has some really nice fish in it. (not that I've caught many of em) I don't fish it a lot, but today, I didn't have much of a choice, so I headed over there. Finally got in some fish, and it was a bite just about every spot I dropped a jig. Problem is, the were all about 4-5" long. Whats your strategy when you run into this situation? I just kept chugging along doing the same thing and weeding through the little fellas.I was fishing submerged logs 5' deep in 9 fow. I managed 7 good ones, but I was wondering if I could change my tactics to get away from the little fish and find some bigger ones.?

[Slabyanker]

I've always heard to use a bigger bait.

[dblevens]

I was using a 2" hand tied jig. Some of them fish had absolutely no business trying to eat something that big.

[olduckhunter]

don't go to lake Charles again

[zummy]

Fish something the little guys can't eat.

[BoarBuster]

I thought the bigger fish were under the smaller ones and fishing deeper would solve that. Perhaps I was wrong.

[jackie53]

We fish several small lakes in our area that is known for small crappie and lots of them Ramsey slough,lake charles, Newark lake!! We learned most of these small crappie were coming from the banks (shallow)!! We moved out to deeper water 8-10 and targetd cover in at this depth.We also learned most fishermen were getting right over the cover with theri boat,trolling motor(spooking fish)espically the( bigger crappie)We backed off cover and started pitching our jig's to the cover (hand tied,Midsouth,bass pro tender tubes 2 in) Not a pro!! But this is what works for us!!This is some Pics from lake Charles!!!

[Kevin22]

Get away from that wood. The little ones are hiding in there for a reason. Go offshore and find the bigger ones, probably suspended the next depth contour off the logs. A slab crappie could eat that one in your picture... again, there is a reason he was hiding in that wood.

[slabbacks]

yep, like Kevin said move out to the next drop or even a little deeper. You start catching those smalls pull stakes. If you go to just another location like that then more than likely your going to get the same results.