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    I was fishing one of my normal bunch of trees know for producing crappie, and catching nothing, no bites, nothing. Moved a couple hundred yards or more to a larger different bunch of trees, bam, bam, bam, hit after hit after hit, all bream. Finally caught one crappie and a white bass. My first thought was the crappie aren't in here, but now I wonder.... Usually when I catch crappie I only catch crappie and an occasional bass, one blue gill rarely.
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    I've loaded the boat with crappie and bream from the same top along with a couple bass and a catfish

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    They're all after the same food source and methinks it is not common to find them all in the same area, jockeying for position on that popsicle jig.

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    I see Crappie segragate by size sometimes on condos.
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    Usually when you find the bass, crappie aren't too far away. I usually find the larger crappie together and the smaller ones together as well.

    This time of year, the crappie are usually tighter in the brush than the bream and bass.
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    When Crappiepro and I were fishing Friday, we noticed that almost every brush pile we pulled up on that we would catch 3 or 4 small crappie then after that we would start catching the slabs. I always thought that the little ones were younger and dumber and more aggressive. My stategy was to let CP clear out the dinkers before I moved in. He he.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rtark View Post
    When Crappiepro and I were fishing Friday, we noticed that almost every brush pile we pulled up on that we would catch 3 or 4 small crappie then after that we would start catching the slabs. I always thought that the little ones were younger and dumber and more aggressive. My stategy was to let CP clear out the dinkers before I moved in. He he.
    That's not like Nimrod, if you catch several dinks we usually move on. The big ones usually hit first on our stuff.
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    I have noticed when fishing deep tops in Lake Monticello that Crappie usually group together according to size. I have taken many videos there with the underwater camera and that is a notable characteristic that they all seem to be the same size at any particular area. I never see very small Crappie in a bunch with large Crappie. They also seem to bite generally with the largest first then smaller in a sort of "pecking order".
    I use LM as an example because it is the only lake I fish over tops and honeyholes. On other lakes I troll and get a cross section of whats there. Trolling LM in other than winter months is a wasted effort.
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