Fishing Q&A
Can any one give me any tips on crappie fishing?
What are some good jigs how deep to fish and what time of the day.
Public Comments
- It all varies from day to day, hour to hour. Key...find trees or some other sort of cover. Also, fish where crappie ARE, if a body of water is not known as a crappie water, it will not produce much crappie.
- various times for fishing... deep jigging-- 3/4 oz. sinker, egg prefered, about 18" above the 1/64th to 1/8 oz jig, or you can drop shot a small grub or worm you will have to experiment on the depth, or you can cast the small jigs and retreive them as they are suppose to be fished.
- Look for the spawning areas. These look like round gravel areas about 2 to 3 feet in diameter that are near the shore. Fly fishing use a Bitchcreek Nymph. Casting use a white grub on a Flue Flue and a bobber. My most important piece of equipment that I can wear in fishing is my polarized sunglasses. You can see through the glare of the surface to see into the water. - STB
- One thing about crappie, they are all the same depth.Remember about how far down you are when you catch one, also, when the water is still cold or cool, the crappie don't move so fast, so when jigging, jig real slow, if the water is still cold jig real real slow. Remember, if you catch a crappie, they are more at the same place, just be patient and catch the whole bunch of them.Happy Crappie!!!!!!
- Time of day and depth changes daily, but here's the best way to learn- find out the best crappie waters around you - go to that lake and seek out the largest concentration of boats bunched up fairly close together- if only a few people are fishing, it may be just 3-5 boats in one spot, but if the perch are hitting good , there may be as may as 10 to 20 boats bunched up- these people are catching the perch in schools as they bunch up un open water- they may have 1 to 5 jigs Usually 3 jigs on each pole and sometimes the boat looks like a porcupine because it has so many poles sticking out- go in close and notice how deep and what color jigs they are using.Just duplicate it and you'll be in business. There are many ways to catch crappie, this is just one of them. In Louisiana the limit is 50 crappie per person per day and when the crappie is hitting, most people get the limit
