Help! I need crappie!

[Lundnut]

I'm new to the 6 mile marker area. Are there any crappie around here? If so help! I can't find'em and I promise I'll keep it a secret if I have to!

[magicwormman]

Long Creek, King, or James. Not many crappie near pt. 6. I have caught a few in Little cow years ago.

[dtrs5kprs]

23 minutes ago, magicwormman said:

Long Creek, King, or James. Not many crappie near pt. 6. I have caught a few in Little cow years ago.

Might try some main lake swings or deep docks, but Spoony beat everyone else to it. That's just not the easiest part of the lake to crappie fish.

There really isn't an easy part for those critters. Rivers and Long if you time it right. It's just not like Truman, LOZ, Stockton.

Upside is that there are some big crappie in the lake proper. 15" plus. Just not many. Lot of those get caught accidentally on grubs, swimbaits, stickbaits. And the Ned.

[Champ188]

Pardon if this has been explained before, but what's a Ned?

[vernon]

2 minutes ago, Champ188 said:

Pardon if this has been explained before, but what's a Ned?

A new golf ball brand.

[Champ188]

Pretty soft compression, I presume?

[Hammer time]

Way up the Kings or point 15 area of the James is your best bet, my buddies have been doing well in both areas. Hope this helps.

[skeeter]

I'd be real interested in hearing some educated Fisheries Biologist's explanation for the scarcity of Crappie in Table Rock except in the major Creek and River arms.  Wonder if MDC ever did any research on this ? 

[Champ188]

I wonder if they are really scarce in the lower end or if they're just so spooky that it's super hard to catch them? Or maybe stained water is more to their liking and they actually are more numerous in the river arms.

Whatever the case, Beaver Lake is the same way ... not a lot of crappie on the clear end but some really big ones. Far more numbers in the rivers.

[Phil Lilley]

I'e caught a good number in Little Indian in past year.