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    I am going to give it a shot here in the Buckeye State this week at my closest 171 acre lake.
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    Ketchn, do you ever fish Lake Granbury? I am new to lake fishing for crappie and I haven’t been able to locate them yet out here. Any tips are appreciated! If you’re ever out this way I have a spare seat in my jon! Appreciate any pointers friend.
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    i posted up the where on there and the how on the main board my friend
    maybe i will get a moment some day and come visit ya
    my kayak bud is on some magnum fish over there right now as i type
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ketchn View Post
    i posted up the where on there and the how on the main board my friend
    maybe i will get a moment some day and come visit ya
    my kayak bud is on some magnum fish over there right now as i type
    Ketchn, I really appreciate the advice! Caught my first slab today!
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    fishingreg, hopefully you got in on some of the action. They slowed down a full week ago and have pretty much moved out as of this last weekend. They moved out shortly once before this and they could be had holding down in the mouth area by boat. Don't know about this time though. Word is that the 922 bridge closest to 377 is holding them and loads of bait. I suspect the Buck Creek area could be similar. Find the bait and you'll find the crappie. I heard from a few that the bridge was stacked 2 Sundays ago, but they did not want to bite much at all. Good luck.

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    Congrats Slab Apprentice!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slab Apprentice View Post
    Ketchn, I really appreciate the advice! Caught my first slab today!
    first of many to come i imagine , once you understand your water body and seasonal patterns , you will be a hammer
    congrats brother
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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleStick View Post
    fishingreg, hopefully you got in on some of the action. They slowed down a full week ago and have pretty much moved out as of this last weekend. They moved out shortly once before this and they could be had holding down in the mouth area by boat. Don't know about this time though. Word is that the 922 bridge closest to 377 is holding them and loads of bait. I suspect the Buck Creek area could be similar. Find the bait and you'll find the crappie. I heard from a few that the bridge was stacked 2 Sundays ago, but they did not want to bite much at all. Good luck.
    Thanks, thats crazy that they move out of an entire area like that this time of year. I would have expected once the water temps drop below 50 they would move into the areas just before the actual creeks or even into the creeks and not come out until early Spring. I got out to Buck Creek on Christmas day, it was a nice day, I scoped both bridges, almost nothing there, saw one or two fish and that was it. At about 3PM a guy in a Kayak told me he had been fishing the bridges since 7am and he had 4 so far. I scoped hundreds of trees going back to the bend about 3/4 of a mile back, I fished water from 6' to 15'. I saw 4 catchable fish and caught 2 of the four. I truly expected to at least see a ton more fish so I think you are right, they moved somewhere. I guess they would have had to have moved back out towards the lake because they were not East of the bridges in any numbers and I saw a handful of bait but nothing really to speak of. I'm going to try them again this coming weekend. Good luck to you and thanks for the info!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fishingreg View Post
    I mainly fish Roberts now, I have lived on most every side of the metroplex over the years and have fished Tawk, Fork, Lavon, hubbard, lewisville and now primarly Roberts due to where I live. Most of the other lakes I have learned where they go now but for the life of me, I can not figure them out on Roberts in the winter. This is my 3rd year trying. April to Nov, I have them nailed down but not when it gets this cold. Once they leave the deep water brush piles and the dam, I can not find them. I spent 8 hours yesterday hitting every spot I know with only 2 small ones at the dam in 50' of water so I went up to the 3002 bridge and checked it out, I found a pair with livescope and got one. I saw a couple others but no numbers at the bridge to speak of. I went North of the bridge fishing timer in about 30' of water for the next 1/2 mile and nothing to speak of. That lake is full of fish, they have to be somewhere. Any clue what part of the lake they are in this time of year? Any help would be appreciated.
    Try locating the corp brush piles about 30 ft down

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    Quote Originally Posted by salineriverramb View Post
    Try locating the corp brush piles about 30 ft down
    On many lakes the brush piles this time of year hold fish but on Roberts I have not found that to be very true. The ones that are in piles are burried in them but at least in my experience once the water temp gets to about 52 degrees, the piles for the most part are dead. I catch a few here and there but thats it. Last Saturday just for grins I fished probably 18 to 20 piles from 18' to 52' and everywhere in between and not one crappie to be had. I found a handful of single crappie under the Lone Oak bridge but thats it. From March to Oct (daylight savings time) I fish that lake about 4-5 days a week (I live 2 miles from the ramp) and there is very little structure I don't know about and I see thousands of crappie on any given afternoon stacked up on the piles so I know they are piled up somewhere, they don't just disappear but where they go, I can't figure out. I used to live on Fork, I never had a problem in the winter there, on Lavon, they went way up the creeks by mid-late Dec and were easy to find, this is the first lake I have had real issues finding good number in the winter and this is my 4th winter to fish it and I am still in the same boat, tough to find any numbers of fish right now. If anyone knows where they go in good numbers, I would love to know about it. Even if they don't want to bite, there has to be stacks of them somewhere to find on the livescope and I have yet to see it.

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