And often times you are on them big . The only problem with finding the bait in my opinion is there is such a thing as to much bait !
I sometimes see a huge amount of bait and find the fish under them less than cooperative .
I am not sure if they are just not overly interested in a stray and or about to pop full of food already , but to be sure they can be finicky under real large bait balls .
We found ridiculous amounts of bait yesterday and a fair number of fish , the fish were all in the nice size wise range but to be sure getting a bite was a work out .
A few times we could see clouds within clouds , being big yellow dots in the haze of light yellow . they were crappie this much I know because this particular spot has not other open water predators . a few cats and a stray bass once in while but there are no striped devils and the crappie reign the lake .
all the bites we got occurred within a foot of the bottom no matter the water depth .
water temp was 47 when we started and 48 when we left . fish were holding under or near bait in 17 to 26 foot of water .
big pearl colored baits seemed best ......
Here is the kicker ....I USED AND AN 8 FOOT FLY ROD !
my wife found 2 nice fly rods at a yard sale a while back ready to roll for 10 bucks each .
i took the one i liked best and put a spinning reel on it loaded with braid .
i DID not care for the action or the fights that ensued and will go back to a regular rod .
it was very difficult to handle the fish with one and almost impossible to land them as well
not to mention that whippy action miss the bite thing after it telegraphs about from new york city to my hand to my brain
i do use an 8 footer sometimes but it is stiff and fast and can man handle a fish like a dream in a medium action ....i got no horse and cart so i dont need no whip
KABOOM is me yawl
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