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Title: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 09, 2013, 01:23:11 PM: i love crappie, seriously! well a small local lake near me has them, because i keep seeing huge heads at the bank. i know they are in there. i have never caught more then 1 on a worm, always on small white jigs under a bobber but its not working. i have tried 20 different jigs, around the entire lake :bash:

any ideas? hey cohoho this lake is like 5 minutes from both of us :tup: on the flip side we have been killing trout there and have smoked over 50 last week :chuckle:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: xd2005 on June 09, 2013, 01:39:45 PM: I miss good fishing lakes. :'(

5 minutes from Vancouver Lake, but who wants glowing fish?
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 09, 2013, 01:44:54 PM: sneaky- yes tried bottom, etc, problem with worms is this lake has so many damn trout if you use a worm its nonstop trout :bash:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Huntbear on June 09, 2013, 01:46:43 PM: I seriously want to find a good crappie lake here in this part of the state. I got spoiled catching dinner plate sized ones in Georgia when I was there.
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 09, 2013, 01:54:59 PM: no shizz i grew up down south, no comparison! i miss huge bluegill. i heard the potholes and moses are great for crappie
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: cohoho on June 09, 2013, 02:08:21 PM: Go around the back of the lake - where it meets Palmer Cocking- the Mexican dudes are cleaning up on them all the time, that and the perch...
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 09, 2013, 02:14:17 PM: wrong lake but you have a pm with info :tup:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: PolarBear on June 09, 2013, 02:30:41 PM: I have literally caught thousands of crappie on crickets! Bobber, #8 baitholder hook, one small slitshot to get it down. Hug it tight to trees and you will be golden!
As far as artificials, a Blakemore Roadrunner in chartruese shaken around structure, or very small floating Rapala in silver minnow. Live minnows are the absolute best but illegal here. :bash:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kola16 on June 09, 2013, 08:33:41 PM: Crappie do not bight worms well at all. Use the super small green jigs fished slow.
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on June 09, 2013, 08:41:55 PM: Quote from: PolarBear on June 09, 2013, 02:30:41 PM
I have literally caught thousands of crappie on crickets! Bobber, #8 baitholder hook, one small slitshot to get it down. Hug it tight to trees and you will be golden!
As far as artificials, a Blakemore Roadrunner in chartruese shaken around structure, or very small floating Rapala in silver minnow. Live minnows are the absolute best but illegal here. :bash:
yeah ...if we could only use minnows here in Washington you would catch just about everything ....gold fish work well too ! When I used to fish crappies I usually used a white jig 1/4 once with the tail end piece of the nightcrawler ...just kill them ! They should me spawning well now ...once you find those beds then you should be able to load up ... :twocents: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 09, 2013, 09:33:35 PM: ya white jigs aint cutting it, driving me nuts!
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kola16 on June 09, 2013, 09:48:07 PM: Use a little fish for bait......"Hey look I caught a little fish, and I didn't realize it." :chuckle:

But green works the best. Washington crappie are different, and smaller so go small :twocents:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: 1bugman on June 09, 2013, 09:53:53 PM: I've done well with Red and white jigs. No bobber. Some times tipped with worm.
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: HornHoarder on June 09, 2013, 09:57:44 PM: pm sent
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: shoot-em-dead on June 09, 2013, 10:32:05 PM: Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: shoot-em-dead on June 09, 2013, 10:37:08 PM: Quote from: Naches Sportsman on June 09, 2013, 10:33:50 PM
Quote from: shoot-em-dead on June 09, 2013, 10:32:05 PM
Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.

:chuckle: :chuckle:

It works though.
I never have tried, I guess i've never had dynamite either. :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: hunt_fish on June 09, 2013, 10:46:24 PM: I've done decent on the gulp minnows for crappie. 2" ones of those, I bought the 1" ones but didn't really get to try fishing with them this spring. Try using those on a jighead and slowly jigging it back.
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 10, 2013, 09:45:29 AM: Quote from: shoot-em-dead on June 09, 2013, 10:32:05 PM
Have you tried dynamite. Thats how I feel when I know they are there but can't get them to bite.
:chuckle:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: PolarBear on June 10, 2013, 09:56:28 AM: I made one of these up for backup.

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Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: CedarPants on June 10, 2013, 09:57:11 AM: :lol4:
Title: Re: Crappie pissing me off
Post by: Kc_Kracker on June 10, 2013, 02:26:04 PM: :mgun:

:lol4: