Predicting Crappie Behavior

[mistertwister]

Darryl:

If an article like this doesn't get the blood flowing..... Thanks for sharing your expertise and especially compiling this into an easy to read, user friendly document.

Thanks for your insight.
Chris

[Wiskers]

Great post! I'm back on the boat & this will give me something to study while I'm off watch! :D !

[willsjwills]

thanks for the post, Darryl. It's darn good information that makes since. it took some work for you to put this together for us and i can promise you it won't be for naught. I learned a great deal from it. Thanks again.

[hogfaninla]

well well good to know the pen is still working..glad to see some of the d-man's writing..but it sounds like there needs to be a lot less water and some more sac-a-lait in the boat...bored are we?....get out there and feed em fat for me when i come up....

[CrappieMagnet]

Great how-to's Darryl!

I can't figure out how you wrote it all out before getting kicked out before posting it all.:D :D

Keep it up! Good job!

[ShilohRed]

WOW that made my head hurt. I will have to read that a few more times to get it to start fitting in my brain.
Thanks for the great info.
Pete

[Jerry Blake]

When crappie are on the bed and the weather changes do the abandon the bed and move deeper to rebed? What prompts these questions is finding fish on the bed last week, wind blowing from the east, fish biting, wind changed to the north east temp. dropped a few degrees and the fish are GONE, unstable weather has put me in the search mode.--shu

Hey shu:

It doesn't take much to back crappie off of their beds, especially early in the spawn. Just few degrees of falling water temperature, a few inches of falling water level or even a heavy rain or wind that stirs up the water and makes it dingy can back them off for several days. But they shouldn't be too far away. We've gotten in the habit of placing what we call "Staging Beds" just out from known spawning areas, usually in the middle of the channel or on the points just outside of spawning coves. Since I've been guiding I fish these staging beds a lot more than I do the shallows, partly because they are easier to fish but mostly because they hold fish more consistently through the spawn. I also figure it's better not to harass the fish on their beds every day so they can get-r-done!

[eat,sleep,fish]

Darryl,
That was a great post. That really gives me alot of information being i'm new to the game of crappie fishing. Thanks alot!!:D

[Cane Pole]

Hey shu:

It doesn't take much to back crappie off of their beds, especially early in the spawn. Just few degrees of falling water temperature, a few inches of falling water level or even a heavy rain or wind that stirs up the water and makes it dingy can back them off for several days . But they shouldn't be too far away. We've gotten in the habit of placing what we call "Staging Beds" just out from known spawning areas, usually in the middle of the channel or on the points just outside of spawning coves. Since I've been guiding I fish these staging beds a lot more than I do the shallows, partly because they are easier to fish but mostly because they hold fish more consistently through the spawn. I also figure it's better not to harass the fish on their beds every day so they can get-r-done!

Hey Fatboy

You remember those condos we put out last summer? They are the staging ones. We gonna put the next row about a 100 foot inland from these next time up. We will have 3 stages into the spawning area when we finish. Takes time.


Good write D.

[shuorc]

Thanks Jerry for the info, i guess it's past time to start dropping 'things' in the water.
and thanks Crappie.com for a very informative site--shu