Ballooning Crappie School
I have been Crappie and Bass fishing for well over 30 years and thought I had most of the tricks of the trade learned. Well I was at a Bass Pro Shop for a meeting with some of the local Crappie enthusiast, and an older guy started talking about ballooning a school of crappie.
This is what he said. When the crappie is hard to locate and you catch one or two then they stop biting and seem to move. The first crappie you catch you take a strand of line about 4' longer than the dept you caught the first crappie. take a swivel and attach the line to the crappies upper lip, then Tye a small balloon to the line, and release the fish. Now HE said the fish will swim back to the school of crappie and suppend just in the lower section of the school. When the school moves all you have to do is follow the balloon and you will be on the school all day.
I have some serious doubts about this actuality working because of the stress it places on the fish along with several other factors. Has anyone here ever tried this? d And did it work?