What's Going On In The World Of Crappie Fishing?

[BHowe]

Anybody catching any crappie on the lake these days?

[fishinwrench]

I keep hearing about limits of 10-11inchers coming out of 7-15 fow, but I haven't been able to pull it off yet.

Still doing good on LM and whites though.

[Old plug]

I see in the paper they arecgetting ready to drawdown the lake.

[Blazerman]

I hauled my Blazer down there last weekend to try and get into some crappie but I never was able to get on a consistent pattern. Picked up a few here and there but it was usually one or no fish off a spot. I would pull up to a known brush pile and see a ton of specks on the fish finder sitting in and around the brush and I would drop a jig down and sometimes get hit and most times not.

When I did get one a would spend 20-30 minutes over that spot trying to get another one and nothing.

I finally switched to throwing a jerkbait and picked up some decent whites and some green bass but ended up letting everything go.

But it sure was nice being on the lake in mid-December with it being 60 and 65 degrees.

When I took the boat out a Coffman there were two old timers cleaning a nice mess of crappie and I asked them how they got them. They said pulled up to known brush pile and dropped their jigs down. I said that’s what I was doing and the one guy said you using crappie nibblers and I said no. he said gotta have them- makes a huge difference this time of year. I guess maybe he is right.

[BHowe]

Yeah, that's what I've been doing over brush piles with crappie nibble for the last few weekends. Haven't caught more then 6 and that was my best day. The ones I did catch were pretty shallow 5-7 foot down in 12' of water. The pressure is going down Sunday, I might switch it up and try to catch a few cold water catfish:) I've been seeing a lot of big shad up by the banks when the sun is out.

[Old plug]

Ia, certain most of the crappie are coming out of large marina and condo docks. By out of I mean not around you got to get on the doxk and fish straight down most times right off the center walkways.

[WHARFRAT]

Surprisingly no black crappie this weekend, just whites. 7-8' down. Nothing big.

[conorsixtakc]

Anybody get out today? They seemed spread out, dock hopped around in 12-18 FOW and managed one that kept. Lot of dinky green fish in the brush.

[conorsixtakc]

Please guys, not all at the same time.

[basscatfan]

I've been after crappie 3 times in the last couple weeks with mixed results. Had 30 keepers yesterday in the linn creek area. They were 20' deep and if I wasn't pulling over a limb I couldn't get a bite. Every thing I fished was just inside creek coves.