Anyone Else Have This PROBLEM???

[Chuck Adams]

Does anyone think the crappie bite is triggered by ambush, match the hatch, water clarity and temp, all of the above, or what???? Crappie are prolific eaters and I think they eat about anything that gives them the opportunity.

The lake I primarily fish has so much fishing pressure that sometimes I throw baits that are colored like nothing at all in this world.
Works sometimes, but I kinda figure they see all the common colors day in and day out. I still use those like everyone else at times too.

I bass and bluegill fished for many, many years and these crappie are 10x harder to figure out at least for me.
Heard an old timer once say that bass are for someone that just wants to catch fish and crappie are for fisherman. Something to that effect. Can’t remember the exact wording.

In addition, whoever said bass fishing was expensive never fished exclusively for crappie.


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[DockShootinJack]

When they are actively feeding they would eat anything of similar size and shape, for instance when they are gorging themselves on a school of shad. If fishing minnows I believe the struggle of the minnow causes them to key in on an easy meal. When dock shooting I het a lot of light bites. I believe that is from the jig falling right in front of the fishes face and them grabbing it.

I know even if I am not hungry if there is a lot of food around I will eat something.

[Chuck Adams]

I reckon I’ll never be a true jig fisherman. I ALWAYS take minnows.
Try jigs for a short while, then break out the 14 footers and start pushing double minnow rigs.
Livescope set at 16-20 ft. and roam around.
Bass fishing ruined me for casting I guess.


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[Central Minn]

[QUOTE=Kevin22;4157859]Dont even get me started with crankbaits, especially walleye fishing. That's a unique username, where abouts in central MN are you? Headed to st cloud area friday, I go up there a few times each year and have a blast catching your big panfish.[/QUOTE

We fish mostly Ottertail county.

[Micanopy]

Are you sure it’s a problem ?

I visited a feller that bought a shed to store his bass tackle. He had more baits than a bait shop. Packages stuck on little hooks lined the walls. He seemed pretty happy to me.

[DockShootinJack]

I believe the unhappiness part would come when the bait they where hitting very well had been left back at the shed hanging on the wall.

[Ketchn]

I believe the unhappiness part would come when the bait they where hitting very well had been left back at the shed hanging on the wall.

There is a train of thought by some that 4 or 5 colors or even less will get it done . The trick is different sizes and profiles . Fall rates and other things like horizontal and vertical rise rates are often the key to getting a bite .

[Ketchn]

I believe the unhappiness part would come when the bait they where hitting very well had been left back at the shed hanging on the wall.

There is a train of thought by some that 4 or 5 colors or even less will get it done . The trick is different sizes and profiles . Fall rates and other things like horizontal and vertical rise rates are often the key to getting a bite .

[DRFISHDUCK]

I can vertical jig an area and be catching crappie and then the bite slows to nothing, then switch to a different color jig and immediately start reeling them in. I dont know if it was the color choice or just because I changed colors? I almost always tip the jig with a nibble or small worm chunk.

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[DockShootinJack]

Bought a used floating diving crank that was shaped like a bream. Those pond bass would wear that thing out. If you got close to the shore and reeled it up quickly to cast again. Sometimes a bass would follow it up you could throw it in front of the fish and it was on. Explosive strike within feet of where you were standing. Water was tea colored and fairly clear. With a sandy bottom. Those fish wore every bit of the color off that thing it was mostly white when I finally hung it on a deep stump and couldn't recover it. I am sure the profile and theat tight wiggle it had was what brought the fish to it. No telling how many bass were caught and released using that lure