Time to get back to crappie fishing for me

[Les Young]

I guess I’m done with bass tournaments for the year so hopefully the fall crappie bite’s good & I can learn a lot more about catching them.

[BuckeyeCrappie]

Keep us posted on your successes and…

[Ketchn]

we love to see fish and hear fish stories in this part of the internet .....
by all means go get em and show us them fish
KABOOM is near

[Les Young]

I will say that i sure do enjoy crappie fishing way more than i ever thought i would so crappie fish until first week of june next year than bass tournaments until last weekend of september then rinse & repeat.

[Spoonminnow]

Nice thing abut the lures you cast for crappie, anything will bite them and numbers + nice size to boot! It's been a +50 fish/ outing for the last month which included 13" crappie, sunnies larger than my hand and 11" yellow perch.
I'm assuming you're using a light action rod and small lures.

(BTW how high did you place tx fishing?)

[Les Young]

Worst year i've ever had tournament fishing. When they went offshore i never could figure them out.

[Spoonminnow]

I guess I’m done with bass tournaments for the year so hopefully the fall crappie bite’s good & I can learn a lot more about catching them.

There's really not alot to learn. Ball head jigs + any one of a million soft plastics. But, when you cast lures for crappie, you in all likelihood will catch everything else to boot. I did, today and yesterday.

[CrappiePappy]

There's really not alot to learn. Ball head jigs + any one of a million soft plastics. But, when you cast lures for crappie, you in all likelihood will catch everything else to boot. I did, today and yesterday.

Nah ... where Les & I fish, this is what we're after & what we most likely will catch when slinging ballhead jigs/plastics : (9.5-11")



What I used Saturday, LS flippin' was Slabanator Devil Minners & Crappie Magnet Tiny Dancer plastics to roaming schools of Crappie.

Crappie Magnet Tiny Dancer in "Double Ugly"
Slabanator Devil Minner in Junebug/Chartreuse
(full report on KY Forum)

[Danny Lang]

Hey Les been fishing a lot here lately, the bite has really picked up here. Not any big ones yet, had a crappie club tournament over the last weekend and only 9 lbs won with a 7 fish limit.

[Les Young]

I'll be back at it Sunday barring any unforseen circumstances. Mother nature may have them shut down though with the cold that's coming.