Fly fishing for crappie: anyone do it?

[Ketchn]

not sure about the other where and whens , but have seen them hammer big yellow grasshoppers in several locations during my travels midsummer .....thought crossed my mind about trying it ,,,,was eating a sandwich one after noon sitting in timber full of yellow grasshoppers and had a real large slab swim up from the depths to eyeball a hopper , of course when we went eye to eye it slipped back away into the depths , but on a side note , we watched them beat up hoppers on a 3 acre lake one fine sunny summer day a few years before that .

[texican89]

I've done it lots of fun, keeping bass and gills off a fly long enough to let crappie bite is the bigger issue

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[up2specks]

Many moons ago(40 yrs), I was hammerin' some bull-sized spawning gils in the shallows. When they finally busted my popper body and it started a slow, wet-fly fall, the crappie were anxiously there to "surprise me"!

[Ketchn]

I have thought about it many times especially when they are in an area with no wood around,but it always seems to not happen. Now I can't catch a crappie to save my hide. Oh well, my brother went out for a two day bass tournament and caught zero fish! The lake is in very poor shape right now,fish have shut down and are in survival mode,with danger that they may not.

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super low water is your friend bro , fish in a barrel , take it from the guy that has seen a many a drought , ketch festival if you know where they are hiding

[Jamesdean]

Been watching videos on the net and there's a guy up in Kansas that ties a lot. If you been watching SK's Wednesday night shows you've seen him, Kim Burnett. Catches not just gill's but plenty of crappie too on the fly rod. Me, I'm still learning to control my casts, in the grass...lol.

[fredo]

Me, I'm still learning to control my casts, in the grass...lol.

Don’t try to cast far. Everybody makes that mistake, and they end up learning a lot of bad habits.

Focus on short casts with good form.

Good loops > distance. LOL

[Jamesdean]

just trying to get out like 25-30 ft and being able to hit a spot about the size of a paper diner plate consistently...

[fredo]

just trying to get out like 25-30 ft and being able to hit a spot about the size of a paper diner plate consistently...

[happycaster58]

All depends on what you are trying to get out of flyfishing for them. If what you want is the feel of a 1-2 lb fish on a fly rod, then just put an ultralight spinning reel on your favorite fly rod. I used this setup for casting to trout in larger streams for many a year. Works great. Brushpile fishing may prove problematic. Spring spawners from the bank could work good.

[Tradbow]

I’ve had good success in the summer fishing around docks at night. White streamers with some flash usually all I need.