Crappie Fishing with a flasher

[eurolarva]

I fished Forest Lake this weekend for the first time. I was in 30 ft of water using an LX5. The flasher showed fish from 15 ft to 30 ft. When fish are at a bunch of different level do you target the highest ones, the lowest ones? All I managed to catch were dinks with euros and glow jigs. Minnows were doing nothing but getting a few looks.

[Brad B]

if it was me I would work up and down the whole water column where they are. start with the one up top and work down to the lower fish to find out which ones are the more aggressive or active fish and the larger fish.

[Deitz Dittrich]

I always start at the top, so not to spook the fish lower in the water. HOwever, fish do at times tend to school by size, you may have been better off trying to find the outside of the school, where larger fish tend to be.. just a thought.

[hoggs222]

Not to take away from this thread, but, What do you do in this situation? You move your jig 2 feet up to the mark on your flasher, the fish goes to where your jig was. You move it back down, it goes back up.

[eurolarva]

I think in my case Dietz is right. I was not on active fish. I should have moved but there was a city out there and I saw fish when I drilled holes so I set up then it got to prime time. I tried to get a reaction out of all depths but not much interest. I was out at Green with a camera down in the shallows and was bummed at how uninterested the fish were in anything I gave them. Must be that time of the month.

[thedeadsea]

Try changing up your presentation if you are seeing lots of fish that aren't interested.

I started this winter with last year's hot jig and couldn't consistently catch anything until I experiemented and found this year they like spoons. Fishing on the same exact spot.

[Deitz Dittrich]

Not to take away from this thread, but, What do you do in this situation? You move your jig 2 feet up to the mark on your flasher, the fish goes to where your jig was. You move it back down, it goes back up.

Keep in mind, if a fish is off to the side of your jig, especially in deeper water, even though its actually the same depth as your jig, it will read further away from your ducer.. So, always fish above the fish as a fish will not often go down for a lure.. they cant see down well, but can see up. IN a case where a fish goes above your lure.. did you have a sinker on your line?

[looneyducer]

Sometimes we do too much. Fish, like all critters, will eventually eat a thing if we just leave it alone long enough.

[EJ]

Deitz is right on here. I very often see people misinterpreting the flasher/graph thinking the fish are coming off the bottom when they are actually coming from the side. This is most often the case in situations like this with a suspended panfish. Error high, not low, on any suspended fish.

EJ