Techniques for Summer Crappie
Hi guys/gals,
I was wondering how many of you change your tactics during the summer? I know that a lot of folks troll for crappie in the spring, but when you get to the lake at day break in the summer, what is your perferred method of fishing. Do you troll, tight line over brush/other breaks, or shoot docks?
I have been mainly night fishing, but I have been wondering if a fellow might have some luck early in the morning trolling around some condos. I guess I should just try it, but it would be interesting to see peoples perferred method during the summer.
For most of my local "post spawn" ....
Crappie fishing - from mid May thru the Summer months - I have mostly fished in the early AM til mid-day hours. Casting & "vertical casting" jigs, to laydowns/standing timber on shaded banks, has been my usual method. There are no docks to shoot, on my local Crappie lake, and the pontoons moored at the Marina are "off limits" to fishing :mad: ... so that leaves only the timber (on that lake). I do all my "dock shooting" in TN, during the Spring & Fall ... but, I do have one local lake that may change that, just a bit ;) I know it has Slabs in it ... I've caught them, up to 2lbs, from there. It's just been more of a Bass lake, to me, over the years. I think I'm going to start back, Crappie fishing it, and see if some of the tricks I've learned work there.
So, to answer your question, no ....... I don't really change tactics so much as I change time frames. I still cast jigs about 90% of the time ... with a small percentage of the time devoted to using minnows. I get to go so infrequently, I play to my strengths whenever possible ...LOL!! ....cp :cool: