Thread: Nephew Catches His Largest Crappie Ever on Harris Today

My nephew John was able to join Charles and myself fishing on Harris today. Yesterday my father joined us and we ended up with 37 nice crappie and perch. Today was a totally different story. A front had come through and the temperatures were down, plus the wind had picked up quite a bit. It made fishing tough and we ended up with only around 15 or 16.

John had picked up a few crappie and two large enough for me to take his picture. About 3:00 this afternoon, I saw one of his rods take a nose dive straight down. He grabbed the rod and I told him to try and lead the fish away from his other line. I saw very quickly this fish was not going to be turned. A big congrat's on a very nice crappie that weighed in at 1.78 pounds. Here's John with Charles and his big fish:




Took some screenshots for you guys. Charles has an Onix 8 and these are all taken with down-imaging. With the fish in deep water at this time of year, DI is your best tool. I tried the 360 and side-imaging, but they don't do as well when the fish are in 30' water. These shots give you a glimpse into their world and hopefully it will help give you some insights that will help your fishing.

I read once where if you see a baitball that is oval and regular shaped, there are no predators around. If there are irregular shapes, then predators are at work. The second shot is a classic and look at all the predators. If this were on Jordan, I would say most are crappie. On Harris, probably a combination perch and crappie. The fourth picture has a huge rock field in it and thought it was quite interesting. Bass and bream fishermen may like it, but not really something that impacts us crappie guys.

Congrats to John and his personal best. If you and Charles take him much, I bet it won't be long till he has that 2 pounder. Congrats to you and Charles for taking him out.