Tips For Percy Priest/old Hickory

**cbarron19** · 12-28-2006, 05:18 PM

yeah, that's me who are u

**CRAPPIE 123** · 12-28-2006, 05:23 PM

Its Joel Howard man... How have you been??? I gave myself away too quickly. I was going to have you all over Priest and Old Hickory giving you tips on where the fish were but I just couldn't do that to an ole buddy of mine... I had coordinates and everything made up!!!! This site is pretty good although I mainly look and post on the Mississippi forum about Sardis and Enid Lakes down there. I've learned a lot from here though. Good to hear from you and hope you catch a bunch of fish... I wish I had some info on those two but I don't... Someone on here will help you out!!!

**cbarron19** · 12-28-2006, 05:36 PM

i wouldn't have ever guessed that it was u, you been catching any in MS? i cleaned 30 the saturday after thanksgiving from reelfoot, first time i've been in since i moved everything is going good on my end, what about you? i heard you were married or getting married been a while since we've been to archtree they should make it a museum after all of the stuff that happend there good to hear from u

**fiddlefarter** · 12-28-2006, 05:43 PM

Priest Differs from Reelfoot a lot. First off the fish at Priest are almost always near a dropoff. Most drops have stumps on them and thats where you can usually find the fish. That and stumps and manmade structure on flats near drops. This time of year they're usually near the baitfish. The gulls will tell you where they are. You find the dropoffs with the cover and the baitfish and you'll usually find the crappie. Get a good map of Priest. the drops are pretty accurate. Someone else might have a better game plan, but I'm a drop fisherman till spring. On warm sunny days in the winter you can sometimes catch them up shallow feeding though. Especially in the afternoon when the shallow gravel and rock flats or banks near a dropoff warm up a little. You can tear 'em up casting a jig then!

I'm not too great at OH.

**cbarron19** · 12-28-2006, 05:47 PM

fiddlefarter

thanks a lot..... do you usually troll?..........jigs or minnows?

**crappietime** · 12-28-2006, 06:09 PM

Fiddle you been duck hunting lately?It has been to warm for me to go or even think of it.

**fiddlefarter** · 12-28-2006, 09:30 PM

Same story with me crappietime...

Cbarron:
I spider rig minnows if I have to, but I'd rather catch them on a jig. Either casting or vertical jigging and working every inch of cover slowly. It's fun to feel the bite. Sometimes you just have to spider rig though. Sometimes I even longline troll jigs (but thats a last ditch effort I haven't perfected yet.)

I would suggest you find an area you like and put out some cover. Banks with gravel usually are good. I like the stuff I put out to be below the water right now with the water drawn down. Then when it comes up in the spring its a little deeper. Or right at the edge with the water down. Then you get 6'-7' deep cover with the water at summer pool. Perfect Whether its cane condos like on the structure forum or just tree limbs weighted good with rocks from the bank and sank. That'll help you a lot. Coming from Reelfoot it probably seems like there ain't any cover. If you put 10 things out, that's 10 things you know where they are and can fish...

Here's another way to look at PP. You know how at The Foot you can cover a lot of stumps spider rigging in open water and pick off fish. Well the stumps are so scattered here that when you find one, you gotta work it a little better before you move on. I like to get on a drop and work down it fishing the high and low side spider rigging. Then you can hit stumps as you come to them. When you pick one off, toss a marker, swing around and come back, and just hover over it.

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