Thread: water temp n tactics

I'm still catching crappie, but it's tough. The fish I'm catching are lying about 6" to 1' off the bottom, fishing in about 5 FOW. It's difficult to determine a bite from a snag because all they want to do is "mouth it". I'm not a huge fan of nibble baits, but they are helping my situation. If your jigging brush, use the most sensative rod you own, and step down on your line size. I'm a huge fan of 1/8 oz jig heads, but I've backed down to 1/16 and 1/32 to promote hang time of my jig. Eitherway, it still feels like their just licking on it. When in doubt set the hook! Even the big fish are pecking around like bluegill. It's frusterating, but that's summertime jig fishing... Good luck!

Still catching a good many crappie pulling single jigs with an added splitshot to get them down in the 13' range and catching fish in 16'-20' of water fishing flats or creek ledges. This time of the year I'm catching ALOT of throwbacks, but still managing a good mess to bring home if I want 'em.

Master, I'm not, but I'll tell ya the only thing that works for me. I fish a place similiar to this, but the creek channel still has some timber on it. After fishing this place with success, I've learned that daytime crappies want the deepest water structure they can find. I still don't fish anything lower than the thermocline. In shallower water, there isn't one, as far as fish are concerned. I'm going to try and dip minnows down in tight, since the fish are near bottom, you can get away with being a little closer to the target. I give up on jigs this time year, mainly because I'm not set up to troll......yet.

At night, I just put out lights and attract bugs! I've figured out nothing, really! I like to go, I know that. I like to catch fish, I know that. I've caught alot of fish, I know that. I've caught no fish, and that isn't what I like to know. I haven't a clue what I'm doing, just sometimes it works.

thank for the responses so far guys! gave me some things to think about.

fished under submersible light in 8fow last night. caught a few dinks and some runt cats. nothing of size accept the two that broke me off on "run n snags".

We usually are drop shotting during the summer but it has been a tough bite this year.

drag ajig on bottom and drink abeer lol

I been killing bluegills but I got a message from a buddy of mine who took his son to a local lake and drug minnows on a tiny jig head across and through a submerged weedbed and he said they landed 90 crappie, some of them nice slabs, he didn't say how many they kept. Said they also had a couple of jumbo perch. Sounds pretty shallow to me, but they sure must have been in there. If I wasn't going on vacation next week and leaving the state....

I have been skipping under piers and catching some in 2 to 8 FOW. Lots and lots of dinks. Water temp has been 83. No slabs just some keeper from here and there. I am putting Crappie Nibbles in the tubes.
Bill