Stickups

[keeferfish]

I agree with Beagle. Sometimes the skinny sticks are even better and I will purposely throw at them because you know EVERYONE on the lake is hitting the big ones.

[blairarnold]

Over the years I've caught more crappie around skinny sticks than big limbs.

[hoosier]

What I see is two areas of small timber. Looks to me like there is a hump out further from shore with a deeper area between the two timbered areas. I'd want to see what the depths are like and probably assume there are small trees in the deeper water as well, and I'd look at the water on the ends of the hump as spots to fish.

First of all, thanks to all for the thoughts and opinions. Catfan, I see what you mean and I would never have noticed such a thing on my own, as I said, I am very much a novice and probably could get demoted from that!

Steve

[PIGINTHEPIGPEN]

been fishing stuff like that for years, tell you what a man in Mississippi told me ,, fish them skinny sticks, all of them, crappie do not necessarly like big sticks, it works for me in missouri, truman lake is like the picture your showing and we fish the skinny water and sticks all the time, and do well,

I agree

[GCD]

Fish them all... but look for leaning sticks!

... as mentioned above, while the water is dropping... concentrate on the deeper water and drop offs beyond the sticks. Fishing a falling water table is usually tough.

[Sandwich Maker]

I see a really good time to drop a few brush piles. Pull all those fish on single stickups to a central location.

[kyrich]

i'd fish the road bed in the pic

[bugman]

i'd fish the road bed in the pic

I'm with ya.....i'd be lookin for the ditch with a spider rig,if that didn't work i'd head to that point across the lake.

[skiptomylu]

I can tell you that last spring the SRA started dropping this lake by 2' and this happened right as the crappie were getting on the banks. What happened is they went right back out to 9'-10' and they ended up staying at about that 9 1/2' level for the entire spring. I trolled 1/32 Oz. Roadrunners at that depth the entire time and caught a good many fish.

Skip

[Bronson]

It looks like you have a drop off with trees showing on top of the drop. I would start fishing the trees next to the drop and start off working your bait from shallow to deep. This should help you find the depth they are hitting fairly quickly. If water dropping, they should be right on the drop or in deeper water.