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    jigs under floats if they are really spawning in short water , possibly casting and dragging a jig in a hop hop motion close to the bottom if they are prespawn and or staged for the in between quickee spawns that occur often down here .
    the crappie here almost never just spawn one time , they spawn several times in most spots .
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    Remind him he needs to fish shorter rods and have a short handled net to reduce "prying eyes" exposure while landing a fish............ I will reel a fish up close to the tip and slip it over the gunnel into a bucket of water or just lay a rod down on the deck with a fish on if I have a boat passing. Not a problem so much in the rivers but on Ross Barnett "The blind regularly lead the blind", one guy pulls up a fish, 10 guys give him company.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ketchn View Post
    jigs under floats if they are really spawning in short water , possibly casting and dragging a jig in a hop hop motion close to the bottom if they are prespawn and or staged for the in between quickee spawns that occur often down here .
    the crappie here almost never just spawn one time , they spawn several times in most spots .
    Wow never knew they could spawn multiple times..I have a LOT to learn about these beautiful fish


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    Quote Originally Posted by Slab Apprentice View Post
    Wow never knew they could spawn multiple times..I have a LOT to learn about these beautiful fish


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    I don't think he meant that "literally". I think what he was trying to say was they spawn in waves over an extended period of time, not "all at once".

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrappiePappy View Post
    I don't think he meant that "literally". I think what he was trying to say was they spawn in waves over an extended period of time, not "all at once".
    Oh okay that makes sense. Thanks pappy


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    My home lake is a recreational lake. We have both species in it. It’s seasonal on them tho. Early spring is the blacks. Mid to late spring whites are mixed in the catch. Then all summer the majority of the fish are blacks. I know the whites are there but the recreational boaters make it nearly impossible to fish the areas they are roaming. As fall moves in, those whites start moving towards the back bays and most guys are putting their rods away and picking up their guns. But the white crappie bite is the best of the year then. I catch them in water from 4 to 20 feet deep. They’ll be suspended down around 8 to 12 foot in the deep water and 3 to 5 foot in the shallower water. Look for wood shallow and bait schools deeper. I enjoy watching that bobber go down in the shallow water but hang gliding deeper water is my favorite.
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    My two favorite lakes have both Black & White Crappie, and there's some black nose in the smaller lake as well. Both lakes have 60+ feet of water in the deepest basin and large flats in the shallow sections with well defined creek channels. I mostly target and catch Black Crappie. They seem to be more scattered and regularly suspend in the lower third of the lake in Summer. I don't fish much in Spring because I'm obsessed with hunting turkeys and they get all my free time when I'm not working. The White Crappie I catch in Summer tend to be deeper, suspended in schools relating to channels, rather than random anywhere in the main body of the lake, like Black Crappie. The Black Nose can be mixed in with either species, though they're mainly with Black Crappie.

    I pull crankbaits 90% of the time, from shallow running 06 Husky Jerks (in ghost color) over flats adjacent to deep water on sunny, calm winter days in slightly cloudy water. I drift with jigs over deep water flats next to channels in clearer water on cloudy days in Winter, then run 4cm to 7cm Flicker Shads on Summer days after the spawn when they're starting to regroup and chase shad. Most of the White Crappie I catch are by accident if I run deeper or along channels.

    In early Fall, they move shallower (following shad) into the upper 1/4 of the lake and the deep basin looks like a ghost town compared to what it did the months before. One lake closes down for winter (open early March - early November) and the other is open year-round.

    I hope some of this helps you increase your catch.

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