10-12-2025, 11:13 PM
A little late on my report, but I fished Pineview with Hue on Tuesday and with Brian on Thursday. The plan on Tuesday was to locate a school of crappie and anchor up and vertically jig for them. Almost by accident, we just started strolling, with two rods each, looking for a concentration of crappie. Neither one of us had ever strolled for crappie, but it seemed like the logical thing to do while looking. Surprisingly, we started catching crappie. At one point, we thought that we had located a school and was going to anchor over them; however, when we went to anchor up we could no longer find the school, so we just kept strolling. We ended up catching just over two limits of crappie.
On Thursday, Brian joined me on my boat. We first tried the area that Curtis has been doing well. We marked some crappie schools in that area but didn't have any luck catching any. We then moved back to the same area that we did well on Tuesday. We did ok for an hour or two and then it slowed way down. I decided to make a run down to the narrows. I didn't see the concentration of crappie, in that area, that I have often seen in the fall, but we managed to catch a few, but they were smaller than what we had been catching. We then moved a little north of the private boat docks and didn't get a bite in that area. I decided to try once again where we had caught them on Tuesday. I tried a slightly different area and it was a wise move. The small area that we were strolling was providing steady action. We actually ended up catching a few more crappie on Thursday than we did on Tuesday.
I learned that some jigs are better than others. Hue and I found one jig that produced better than any other jig that we tried. Brian was using a crappie jig that worked even better than the jig Hue and I was using, even without any bait. I discovered that PowerBait Crappie Nibbles work quite well; however, we got no bites on Magic Bait Crappie Bites.
I have an ample supply of crappie bait for the remainder of this year and also for next year.
On Thursday, Brian joined me on my boat. We first tried the area that Curtis has been doing well. We marked some crappie schools in that area but didn't have any luck catching any. We then moved back to the same area that we did well on Tuesday. We did ok for an hour or two and then it slowed way down. I decided to make a run down to the narrows. I didn't see the concentration of crappie, in that area, that I have often seen in the fall, but we managed to catch a few, but they were smaller than what we had been catching. We then moved a little north of the private boat docks and didn't get a bite in that area. I decided to try once again where we had caught them on Tuesday. I tried a slightly different area and it was a wise move. The small area that we were strolling was providing steady action. We actually ended up catching a few more crappie on Thursday than we did on Tuesday.
I learned that some jigs are better than others. Hue and I found one jig that produced better than any other jig that we tried. Brian was using a crappie jig that worked even better than the jig Hue and I was using, even without any bait. I discovered that PowerBait Crappie Nibbles work quite well; however, we got no bites on Magic Bait Crappie Bites.
I have an ample supply of crappie bait for the remainder of this year and also for next year.