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Tennessee’s Winter Crappie Fishing with Chris Duraji

Story & photos by John E. Phillips


Cold weather can be a nightmare for crappiers to fish. However, if you're like me, you have to fish when you have a chance. You can’t change the fishing conditions. I recently fished with Chris Duraji of Lebanon, Tenn., a 42-year crappie veteran, who told me, “The crappie in Center Hill and Dale Hollow reservoirs can be caught all year long. The water is deep and ...

I got my limit this morning in deep, for Okatibbee, water using Pico's new Ringed Scent Tubes and sprayed with Slab Sauce. 17 to 20 ft of water, fishing 14 ft deep.





Mitch's new Pico plastics do good ...

Not too bad a day.



We had a real good morning. But then again, any morning you can catch some nice fish with friends and it ain't snowing, or the water ain't hard is always real good. This is the life, winters in Florida. Seems to be catching on. Met up with doodler and cake lady Wednesday and watched manatee. Today fished with crappie1 and crappie2. Got to love it.



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After letting mother nature beat us three times we finally got it done !The 2017 N.C./S.C. Clash is in the books !
We had to move it over to the enemy territory but finally got it in. Started out a bit chilly. Oh heck no it was COLD ...

I put this together from a nice Brim Mom caught about a week ago here, before this cold spell came in!



She loves catching these brim, especially monsters like this. Makes me take good care in releasing them too. Hates it when one slips out of my hands ...

How to locate and catch crappie - It’s simple. You catch crappie where they live and feed. So don’t over think fishing for crappie instead think like a crappie.

Does that seem too simple? It shouldn’t because that’s how professional tournament crappie anglers and crappie guides consistently catch crappie, they fish where crappie live and feed.

“Rend Lake like most lakes can be sectioned off into two areas. ...