07-20-2006, 08:05 PM
Fishhound gave you some great tips to keep in mind. I also noticed you mentioned fishing at night, which in the summer, seems to be the most productive. Why? The same reason bream bite better early morning and late evening in the mid of summer...........It's a whole lot cooler.
I'd recomend fishing at night for one. Hopefully you've got a boat with a quality fish finder on it. Use the fish finder to help find your submerged structure during the day, if you have one, mark it on a GPS, and go back to it and fish it by night. Drop floating lights in the water. Floating lights do 2 things:
1. Attract minnows and small forage
2. which inturn attract predatory fish like crappie
Verticle jigging is a great way to catch crappie, however, you have to find what depth they are holding at. What does this mean for you? Exactly what fishhound said, experimenting until you find what works.
I like glow in the dark jigheads with a chartruese flutter tail grub. Powerbait seems to work well. I've also used live minnows on a bobber, which seems to work the best. I just like watching the bobber go under, it's just so exciting. [
] Plus, it's alot less work using live bait. I'm all about lazy fishing. [cool]
Alot of veteran crappie fishermen/women slow troll for crappie in areas with lots of submerged structure. In other words, if there is tons of underwater structure, then the process of finding fish might be a little more tricky. Trolling allows you to cover alot of ground and relax for a bit until you find them. ofcourse, trolling is done with jigs, not live bait. Once you find them, you can anchor off and bait up with live bait.
Good luck
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I'd recomend fishing at night for one. Hopefully you've got a boat with a quality fish finder on it. Use the fish finder to help find your submerged structure during the day, if you have one, mark it on a GPS, and go back to it and fish it by night. Drop floating lights in the water. Floating lights do 2 things:
1. Attract minnows and small forage
2. which inturn attract predatory fish like crappie
Verticle jigging is a great way to catch crappie, however, you have to find what depth they are holding at. What does this mean for you? Exactly what fishhound said, experimenting until you find what works.
I like glow in the dark jigheads with a chartruese flutter tail grub. Powerbait seems to work well. I've also used live minnows on a bobber, which seems to work the best. I just like watching the bobber go under, it's just so exciting. [
] Plus, it's alot less work using live bait. I'm all about lazy fishing. [cool] Alot of veteran crappie fishermen/women slow troll for crappie in areas with lots of submerged structure. In other words, if there is tons of underwater structure, then the process of finding fish might be a little more tricky. Trolling allows you to cover alot of ground and relax for a bit until you find them. ofcourse, trolling is done with jigs, not live bait. Once you find them, you can anchor off and bait up with live bait.
Good luck
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