Hello, im new to the site, (lake cohoon)
I like this site a lot, I am in norfolk, and luv crappie fishing also, I really like the Idea of "posting" in January about crappie fishing, the winter is the longest season for me, and just to think, there are crappie hunters year around gets the ol blood bubbling.
Anyway, I havent had much luck here, but last year late feb, early march, I went to Lake cohoon, from the bank facing streight out the left branch, and along the front shore, I was able to get a few nice slabs, and to my suprise they were in only 4-6 feet of water, I trolled (rental) along the entire coast with not much luck that day, but every trip I made I seem to come back with a few nice slabs, really early in the year.
Anyone have a better plan, or more productive lake this early in the season.
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good theroy, and good advise
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Originally Posted by Boscoe
I fish Norfolk lakes, Whitehurst, Smith, and Prince. We seem to have the best luck early in the year looking for shallow, dark bottom coves with old logs and stumps on the north and east ends of the lakes where the wind piles up the warmer water. We use micro jigs and flies under slip bobbers early in the year. I'm going to try and post some pics over on the main board Friday of what we use. It sounds like everybody has a different favorite lake and method and they all seem to work. I've caught crappies on a lot of different rigs over the years, I think the key is location and through probing of likely locations. I've seen people motor and fish an entire lake in the time we spend on a couple hundred feet of shoreline early in the year. My buddy has atheory that early in the year fish are looking for two things warmth and food and once theyfind them they don't move much.
I haven't had much luck on whitehurst, in the past years, maybe one crappie
I also like to jig, mostly micro miny's, I fished smith quite a bit, last year was slow for me, the year befor I could't miss lol, coolers of slabs, (from the shore even), but Im going to work cohoon this season, thks for the advise and post.
mike