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Crappie Fishing Tips

When fishing a jig, use a loop knot for best results. It allows the jig to move more freely when casting and provides an enticing subtle movement when fished vertically.

When fishing vertically, keep up with the exact depth you're fishing at all times. Start with lures at a variety of depths. When you find a depth that's producing, focus on that depth. Old timers used to use a rubber band on their spinning reels. Once you catch a fish, just put a rubber band around the spool of the reel. Then you can return to that depth quickly and exactly.

When the Crappie seem to disappear from the area you've been fishing, move out to deeper water, but fish at the same depth. Crappie will often suspend out from structure or dropoffs, but maintain the same depth. This is often the case in summer.

While many fishermen rely on the shallow water of spawning crappie for good fishing, crappie will almost always be found in the deeper depths. In a typical year there may be only two to three weeks when shallow water will provide more consistent fishing.

Tips sent in by visitors:
Up here in U.P. of MI we troll a lot for crappies about an hour before dark till an hour or more after dark. We fish back water wooded ponds. I have found trolling lanes (that's what I call them) where there are flats around wood, we use twisters and very small rapalas, fishing is usually very good in early to late summer. Now that it is late fall up here a very slow troll works the best, I even catch them during the day real deep . We have a lot of crappie up here but sitting still doesn't work for us. Good luck. Tom Donaldson, Granite Bluff MI.

More tips on pole and reel selections will be added in the future...so check back.

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