Vertical Jigging

[Ketchn]

when we hit water depths here below 25 or so we often use braid . I have let them jigs fall to depths of the 40 foot plus range a few times and that is lots of mono , 40 foot of mono and stretch and quite a few folks set the hook several times per fish at that depth using mono and yes I seen it done often in deep water crappie at one location we hit.

[Les Young]

Ketchn, thanks. I'd be using braid & you've answered my question.

[DrNip]

I’ve dipped up to 40’. Dipping is my main style of fishing. Braid is all I use. Mono be a nightmare deep.

[QuinnTheEskimo]

Quin, thanks. I'm not talking about using a light just going around searching or going to known brush piles & dropping on them. Do you think this will work ok? Thanks

They feed at night anyway, it might work better on nights with a bright moon.

[GreenLine]

35 ft is about the deepest. Where I fish it’s only during the coldest part of winter.
Most of the time I use long poles ( 12 &14) ft. I’ve recently switched to braid. I’m using 50 lb braid and 8 & 10 lb mono leader.
I use the large braid to cut down on tangles and it allows me to pitch jigs to cover when the fish are shallow


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[KrappieKatcher]

Sometimes 40’’ft at the Chicken coop on Toledo Bend


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[Alphahawk]

One of the best crappie fisherman around these parts regularly pulls em up from 53 feet on JPP in the winter.

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[Slab Apprentice]

40 feet deep


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[Atimm693]

I have cranked them up out of 45 feet before but more often 25-35 in the winter.

Usually when they come up that deep you have to slap them pretty hard on the water when releasing to wake them up before they will swim back down. And they will not live very long in the livewell.

[jay the baptist]

Wow. I would have to fish in the middle of our river to even find 35 foot depths or deeper. Our creeks off the river are only 20 foot deep at their mouths.
The deepest I've caught crappie on the rock ledges here in January was 16 feet.
Yet Richard Gene catches fish year round in less that 10 feet of water.
I believe Richard has internal livescope.