I am new to the board so I am not sure if this question has been asked, but I thought it would be interesting to hear what you guys/gals favorite methods were to catch Crappies? My favorite would definitely be pitching tube jigs along a weedline...
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I am new to the board so I am not sure if this question has been asked, but I thought it would be interesting to hear what you guys/gals favorite methods were to catch Crappies? My favorite would definitely be pitching tube jigs along a weedline...
Pitching Jigs to submerged Wood!!
My Favorite is trolling with the troll motor and then probably tight lining over a brush pile or at night over a creek.
Vertical jigging has given me the most success. But if I could get them to bite as good (like heavy spawn when they're biting everything), I would rather use my fly rod. They're just way more fun to land on the fly.
for me, it's casting a weedless jighead with a plastic tube body ... to submerged wood, with my favorite "submerged wood" being a blowdown ;)
Second to that .... "shooting docks" :D
Then it would be "Vertical Casting" thru the limbs of a blowdown, or standing timber.
I don't mind "longline trolling", tightlining a minnow, FnF casting (jig under float), or any other productive method ... I just don't utilize these methods as much as I do the "casting" techniques.
Heck, I still get a thrill out of watching a float go under :p ... but, there's just something about that "thump", that keeps me excited, and full of anticipation. I'm sedentary enough, at home, so I like to be moving and "doing something", when I'm fishing ... casting is my "exercise routine" :D
..... cp :cool:
Ice fishing I'll verticle jig the slabbers & in the spring i'll work a light jig under a cork around the shallows.
Once walleyes open up I'm trolling a sassy shad on a jig.
Dipping a jig. And night stalk.
By accident :D
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Slow vertical trolling off the bow with 14ft rods. Reminds me of night fishing trips as a kid off the bank for catfiish with a zebco and a forked stick. Seeing that tap or a crappie pull that pole in the water down under the boat in front of me is addictive.