big fish bite

[slabscab]

Well its rainin so Im sittin and not fishin so I will raise the question. It seems to me that when I fish a brush pile or any structure holding fish for that matter that the larger fish hit first why is this and do you guys see this same pattern. Is this why they are the bigger fish ? The hungriest dog gets the bone kind of thing? And when you start catching smaller class fish do yall move right away?

[Redneck]

your guess as to why first is as good as mine. My experience has been if the big uns are biting don't change as you have stumbled into the combination of color and presentation they want. As far as when to move on that is a coin toss. If your electronics are still showing a decent school I would wait till about 5 dinks then move. At the same time there are those that believe that fish school with similar sized fish so there is the possibility that the "big" school moved on. I am curious to see what the others have to say about this as well. Good question.

[bwillaub]

I never catch big ones so I am no help with this one.

[longliner]

I feel the bigger fish have the best poistion on the cover for ambushing their prey, therefore they bite first. On the other side, its been my expericance that when you catch dinks when you first pull up on the cover than your better off moving on. Just my 2 cents worth.

[BarryG]

Until last Oct I have never really gotten into a bunch in one place! My son and I were on a river and we started catching crappie on one brush pile, they went from 6" to 13 ", we didn't keep anything under9", I had always heard that they schooled by size...I don't believe it! We kept 20 crappie that day and the fillets FILLED a 2 gallon ziplock! That is the best crappie fishing I have EVER had! I only hope to be able to do it again sometime. :D

[slabscab]

I never catch big ones so I am no help with this one.

I know thats BS I seen your bragin pics before haha. You just don't want to tell us about your big slab assasin jigs your makin!
Well I just wanted to see yall's thoughts on the subject keep em comin!

[Smitty 79]

it seems everytime you get on bigger fish on a piece structure there will b more bigger fish on it but if they r smaller fish usually they will all b small.
i guess the bigger fish will run off the smaller ones.
one time me and dad found a brushpile and on the upwind side they were all small fish and on the downwind side they were all bigger fish. i think the bigger ones were set up letting the wind blow the baitfish into the pile while the smaller ones were darting out into more open water. that has happened to me more than once.

[Jigging15]

I think what Monk said goes right along with Smitty 79's comments about the big ones being aggressive enough to have the prime spot for ambushing prey. I am a catch one fish and move type fisherman. But I mostly fish hardwoods and hedge. So unless they have some limbs they usually will only hold one fish. But a lot of times you can go back later and another fish will have pulled up and took its place.

[LSL Angler]

I have found that in brush i will also only catch one big fish, but fishing docks i have caught multiple large crappie one after another.

[blue eye crappie]

usually it seems that the bigger fish does seem to come early on a pile but i have seen it the other way also. my partner and i had been fishing on a pile for at least 15 mintues, having caught a few keepers and then seemed to get nothing but small one. my partner put on a larger jig and went deeper and came out with a 2.3# crappie. i guess what i"m trying to say is you need to fish the entire pile. sometimes if you have caught big fish on them you will spent more time on it than one that hasn"t held big fish. it" a fine line on how much time to spent on a pile. hope this helps