A successful technique we employ here in the northeast, is to drift with jigs (1/16 - 1/8 oz.) and plastics over the deeper (20') water basins. For whatever reason, in this clear water situation, crappie suspend about 4 - 6 feet under the surface. With a light breeze, you can drift plastics right into them. Sometimes we get them right near the boat.
Here anyway, if we focus on the shorelines, the pickeral will literally "eat you alive"! You'll loose far too many jigs casting shallow. Targeting open water, suspended fish, seems to work best for us.
Last edited by CrappiePappy; 07-06-2014 at 02:30 PM.
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