Crappie on the main river are non-existant around here. Creeks are a different story. Fish will run shallow all year and the river holds some SLABS...but. you are at the mercy of water flow.
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I’ve seen a few people talking about catching some crappie in feeder creeks that spill into the Ohio, but does anyone have any tips or experience with catching crappie in the main channel of the Ohio? Most obviously they don’t prefer the strong current so I would look for things like bridge piling and stationary barges that are tied off. I live on the JT Meyer pool of the river, have not been to successful finding them here. Only one large creek feeding into this pool but not very fishable so I need some advice on where I may look for them
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Crappie on the main river are non-existant around here. Creeks are a different story. Fish will run shallow all year and the river holds some SLABS...but. you are at the mercy of water flow.
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I also fish the J.T. Meyers pool, fished it several times for crappie last summer with no luck. There are several smaller feeder creeks I have boated up looking for them without catching any. Hoping to figure out how to catch some there as this is close to house. I have only had a little luck on big rivers fishing in Oxbows off Wabash. Seems they are all full of Asian carp now and i believe this has hurt the crappie numbers but manage to catch a few every now and then. I have been thinking of trying the barge moors and low ends of some of the islands. Will try this out when weather warms a little.
I've noticed around here anyway.... Creeks can be on fire or completely dead.... Water flowing in, the bite is great. Water stagnant or flowing out..... Then the bite will be off. The river and it's tribs are a different critter and very under utilized... It's right place... Right time sort of thing. But I can tell you from experience, 2lb. fish are common.
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I would also like to figure out the spawn on the Ohio. There are several shallow embayments, man made and natural, that I would think crappie would use during spawn. I haven’t tried this be will be this spring.
I will try fishing the Ohio feeder creeks again on a rise. I catch a bunch of 10 to 12 inch striped bass in the creeks vertical jigging structure every spring and always think I have a whopper crappie but it never pans out. Hope to get it dialed in this year.
Fishfood123, I hope to find some this year too, but I’m starting to wonder. I know a lot of people are successful catching them in the oxbows when the river floods into them, so they have to be out there somewhere
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main river crappie fishing.i knew a old fellow who told 30 years ago about.it all changed when COE raised river with new locks.an it was not till retired an could spend the time find crappie.the old adage 90%of fish 10%of the water an the river is big ,strong current,on most years we have long periods of summer pool that is when you want try to find crappie need to have an understand sonar.it dose not have to be the best.now the easyest way to explain is to have you watch a video i saw by crappie monster.he is on this site .video is eliminate water.i cant hardly type,if it was not 10% today i dont think i would have taken 1 hour to do this but i like to share info.so watch video yuo will figure it out?it might not be abour river but same pricables apply.remember only parts of river will hold crappie.but they are their.good luck.if you can try down oround perry co lots of creeks .6 on indy side an 7 on ky side thats in 12 river miles.if you see a old man in a little boat in that area an it looks like he is creppie fishing take time an ask he might put you on some?
Keith K thanks for responding I actually watched the video the other day and really enjoyed it. In the second half of the video he actually spoke about the Ohio River. I have been wanting to make a trip up to Deer Creek, have a old neighbor who who passed away use to catch crappie up there for years, but I’ve heard from several it’s loaded with stumps and can be difficult to navigate, without knowing the river in that area or the levels the thought of tearing up my boat has kept me from doing so
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You can catch really healthy and nice Crappie on the edges of the main river. Wood piles, barge pylons/tie ups. Mouths of the feeder creeks etc... your current can get really fast though and makes it tough to get a jig down. 90% of the time it’s too tough to try
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