How’d you catch your 3 pounder

[Alphahawk]

I need to hit Center Hill! Sounds like an amazing fishery


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It is an excellent fishery. However they have been working on the dam for the past 10 years. This summer will be the first time in ten years they will bring the lake back up to normal level. While the fishing has been ok it has been nothing like it was before they drew the lake down. According to TWRA the fishing will be on fire for the next 5 years. The water will be up in the trees. The crappie....and every other specie......will have a lot more cover. I’m really pumped about it....I was beginning to think I would never see the lake back to normal level in my lifetime.

Regards


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[Takeum]

I have caught 3, 3# crappie, 1 was 3.7#- all 3 came from the big 4 lakes in M. using large Jigs with 3" curly tails, Trolling at .8 mph. During spring!

Fishing with Big Scottie was the first I ever got to see multiple 3 lbers in 1day,,,Best season ever fishing crappie.. Can't wait to do it again....

[CrappiePappy]

It is an excellent fishery. However they have been working on the dam for the past 10 years. This summer will be the first time in ten years they will bring the lake back up to normal level. While the fishing has been ok it has been nothing like it was before they drew the lake down. According to TWRA the fishing will be on fire for the next 5 years. The water will be up in the trees. The crappie....and every other specie......will have a lot more cover. I’m really pumped about it....I was beginning to think I would never see the lake back to normal level in my lifetime.

Regards


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If the same thing happens there, that happened at Lake Cumberland (KY) ... then you are absolutely correct, there will be a boom in population & size during the first few years after the water comes back up to normal levels.

[slabby]

My two 3 pounders came off a live minnow in the dead of winter in Feb.fishing treetops in a tributary of Wheeler lake in north Alabama

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[ArkieJason]

Awesome stories guys. Hopefully I will be adding mine by the end of spring


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[FIN]

Luck!
I caught my 3.9# while bass fishing an oxbow lake. I was using a 12" black worm with a large 4/0 bass hook.
I'm a firm believer that big fish are caught on bigger hooks. No telling how many times the fish had been hooked on small hooks. Big paper mouths can lose a small hook easily.

[SKs Crappie Catching Adventures]

The day I caught mine were were having a tourney and I had a 2 3/4 and a couple 2 1/2lb'ers to go with her...
To answer your question vertical jigging with jigs.....
Check out the little vid I put together....

[Nutbush]

Caught one the first time I ever fished “Sardis”. Trypman took me during early Spring a couple years ago and we was spider rigging his homemade jigs probably.6-.8 mph


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[wannabe fisherman]

3 pounder???

[whiskerwhipper]

I broke a couple 3+ off trying to handline them up a bridge.