Thread: Need report on norfork lake crappie

Sorry but I can't help but my experience is clear water can be tough in hot sunny weather.

Originally Posted by nimrod

sorry but i can't help but my experience is clear water can be tough in hot sunny weather.

thanks nimrod, for responce. You are right, clear is tuff! Drove over today to look at n-fork water. It has a good bloom and hoped it might help some. Thanks anyway & good fishing!

Hello Crappie buddy, have anyone fish Peckerwood lake, thinking bout going this week, any fishing tip will help.

I picked up a few up there a couple years ago pulling cranks

I don't know much about Norfork but I fish Ouachita quite often and it don't get much clearer than it. I would be looking for brush in the 15-20 foot range and vertical fish it with a tube or Bobby Garland Baby Shad in a color that resembles bait fish. If you can find brush along a creek channel drop that would be my first choice but any brush in the right depth has the potential to hold fish, making them bite my be another story though.

Friend of mine was up there all week. Said it was slow, but the fish they did catch were really good ones. Were fishing over the brush piles in 30-40 fow about 15' deep with minnows. Said they wouldn't touch a jig. Take it for what its worth. They were catching 10-15 a day, but there was three of em in the boat too.

Originally Posted by dblevens

Friend of mine was up there all week. Said it was slow, but the fish they did catch were really good ones. Were fishing over the brush piles in 30-40 fow about 15' deep with minnows. Said they wouldn't touch a jig. Take it for what its worth. They were catching 10-15 a day, but there was three of em in the boat too.

Hey, thanks fellas, I need all the help I can get. Have not been able to get on any type pattern on Bull, since the lake starting falling 1.5 ft per day back in April. They left the banks, skipped the brush piles and ledges and staged who-knows-where. Do you think they might be down as deep as the pre-lake standing timber? Tried to fish it also but too deep to detect a crappie bite. I am on old-North-Miss lakes perch jerker and after 15 years still have not learned this deep and clear water crappie fishing but I plan to stay after it. I am beginning to think maybe they`r suspended out over deep water somewhere.

Originally Posted by Peckerwood

Hey, thanks fellas, I need all the help I can get. Have not been able to get on any type pattern on Bull, since the lake starting falling 1.5 ft per day back in April. They left the banks, skipped the brush piles and ledges and staged who-knows-where. Do you think they might be down as deep as the pre-lake standing timber? Tried to fish it also but too deep to detect a crappie bite. I am on old-North-Miss lakes perch jerker and after 15 years still have not learned this deep and clear water crappie fishing but I plan to stay after it. I am beginning to think maybe they`r suspended out over deep water somewhere.

Think i will try that slip-bobbing with minnows over deep brush suggestion, thanks!