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    Sudden moves or loud noises gets all the animals and fishes jumpy. I’ve even fish with some old folks that swear fish can hear you if you be too loud. I don’t know about all that but some of those old gals them old folks married to can sure tell what you thinking. Maybe the old big females (FISH) can do the same.

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    Best advice I can give is to look for change. If you pull into a cove, look for cut in the bank, lay downs, flooded brush, weeds, docks, whatever. That'll be the spot that holds fish.

    If you're in a boat, I usually move along with the boat about 50 feet away from the bank, casting towards it. I usually use a 1/32 oz jig, often weedless, and a minnow type jig body. Sometimes a roadrunner style underspin if the sun is shining. Cast it shallow and slowly reel it in, occasionally ticking the bottom, working it like a pendulum.

    Fish can't hear, but they can feel the vibrations from sound through their lateral line, it's another way for them to detect predators and prey. If you slam a hatch door or walk loudly in the boat, they can feel it.

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    If you are fishing tight cover drop the jig in the holes and hold it still for about 10 seconds if no hit, lift it straight out and drop it in the next hole and repeat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fridays86 View Post
    If you are fishing tight cover drop the jig in the holes and hold it still for about 10 seconds if no hit, lift it straight out and drop it in the next hole and repeat.
    Or you could try this - Crappie Pappy Article

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atimm693 View Post
    Best advice I can give is to look for change. If you pull into a cove, look for cut in the bank, lay downs, flooded brush, weeds, docks, whatever. That'll be the spot that holds fish.

    If you're in a boat, I usually move along with the boat about 50 feet away from the bank, casting towards it. I usually use a 1/32 oz jig, often weedless, and a minnow type jig body. Sometimes a roadrunner style underspin if the sun is shining. Cast it shallow and slowly reel it in, occasionally ticking the bottom, working it like a pendulum.

    Fish can't hear, but they can feel the vibrations from sound through their lateral line, it's another way for them to detect predators and prey. If you slam a hatch door or walk loudly in the boat, they can feel it.
    There’s no two ways that this isn’t very true! Trout are the best at feeling you LONG before they see you.
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    Fish the shallow drop offs. Even a foot drop may hold lots of fish. Best if wood or rocks are above or below it.

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    The lake I've fished for 35 yrs. must be different than the lakes you fish. Pre-spawn crappie are out from shore waiting to come in to the shallows to spawn. They can be caught but only with slow retrieves and finesse lures. Once fish are found shallow in one section of the lake (sometimes two) that has emerging vegetation, the bite is one fish after another on almost anything you cast within a size limit. I don't know if those crappie are in some pre-spawn ritual but the bite is fast and furious for about a week. No way they are spawning in their shallow, tight aggressive school. After that, crappie move deeper (to spawn?) and the bite cools off for a week or more. This is repeated weeks later by sunfish once the weeds are full grown. (note: water temperature for the crappie phenomena is over 55 degrees.)

    I haven't checked other lakes for this spring pattern that may be unique to this one, but one thing I would look for are large shallow flats adjacent to gradually deeper water. Shores that have points and steep drops and little to no vegetation never hold pre-spawn or spawn fish in the lake I'm referring to. Vegetation is key in shallow water. I'm thinking maybe small prey fish are in shallow early, drawing in hungry pre-spawn fish. Too soon for other prey animals in colder water.

    (side note: my wife feeds birds all winter on our back porch. Large birds are rare except once the air temperature averages above 45 and the ground thaws. Grubs start coming to the surface above ground and you'll see 1,000 birds on the ground at one time. Theory: the higher air temperature (like that of lake water) increases metabolism and therefore feeding especially once the snow is gone. Plus, birds sense the urge to reproduce and eat like crazy. Two days ago it was like a scene from Hitchcock's movie, The Birds, with 30 big black birds all over the porch emptying 5 suspended bird feeders within 20 minutes with over 100 more in the yard searching for grubs. Another thing - two squirrels are now stealing bird food from the bird feeders within an hour of sunrise - at least until my dogs chase them back into the woods, after which they return to steal some more. Never happened in winter. Is there a parallel to all of this to pre-spawn crappie ?? )

    Nature is at times predictable - to a degree.
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    Didn't see it listed, but when walking the bank or wading, I like to keep my ketch on a stringer close by. Fish will come check um out...
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    Quote Originally Posted by longhunter View Post
    Didn't see it listed, but when walking the bank or wading, I like to keep my ketch on a stringer close by. Fish will come check um out...
    pheromones are probably just pouring out of ready to spawn fish bro ....
    scent is so vital in the crappie world and to be sure the hormones are raging when they are spawning ...
    and i bet there is spawn scent/pheromone in the water too .....
    sum kawl me tha outlaw ketchn whales
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    Had it happen way too many times to be chance my friend...
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