Never knew they bedded that deep. I learn something new on Crappie.com all of the time!
They'll bed even deeper given the circumstances--some pics were posted near 18' or so. I never knew them to do it until getting my Garmin two years ago. Huge areas of beds. You can learn a lot with these units, especially those that put in the time to do so. I've found them at 10-13 fow here. Have to be gills as there are no shell-crackers in one of the lakes, and gills are predominant in the other one. One lake is fairly clear, the other not so much. Max depth I have found bed areas is about the same tho.
Never knew they bedded that deep. I learn something new on Crappie.com all of the time!
Kevin
in Yorktown
I have a brush pile I fish on my local lake, it's in about 18' of water. One day while I was using side imagine I noticed beds in the channel side of that pile about 15' away from it, I never knew they bedded that deep but will fish it in the coming weeks to see what's on them, I'm hoping it is the big shellcrackers we have in this lake.
Fishing on bottom (now called drop shotting ) is and has been a great way to target deep gills . Go to any bream bed and cast away from it into deep water and you are very likely to find a deep bed . No expensive depth finder required .
trypman1 LIKED above post
I fish both, the deep beds are the best for big bream.