suggestions!!

[kerryd15]

I'm looking for your suggestions and help with fishing with the warm water temps. Fishing the small lakes in the area, generally 12-18 ft max depth. no real structure, and the weeds that were there are flat on the bottom. Depth finder is locating fish suspended up to 5 ft off bottom. Lake is well known for crappie.

I fished it the other night, one rig on bottom, one approx 2 ft up and one 4 ft up. lindy rig on bottom with no spinner, moving .5 MPH or less. The other rigs were jigs. Both chartruse. Used a curly tail on one and a 3"gulp minnow on the other. Just about all the bites came on the gulp minnow, but it had to have a live minnow on it as well. switched the curly tail to a gulp and trolled with that alone- no bite, not even sheep head. Night crawlers didn't get a bite either. The curly tail was also tipped with minnow.

On the gulp, is the live minnow giving off a vibration-trying to swim, that is attracting the bite? Should have tried a small beatle spin for vibration to check that out. just curious on your thoughts

The night wasn't a bust, plenty of sheepys, couple crappie, perch, and walleye.

[ozzie]

I would sit over the school and cast the gulp out on a 1/32 or 1/16 oz jig and swim it back in various styles (jig-drop, swim it...etc) to see if you can get a bite.

[bturck]

Kerry: you indicate three different rigs, bottom, 2 and 4 ft. were you fishing those all at the same time?

[Fly2day]

Trying to bust him on having to many lines eh...

[bturck]

LOL

[bturck]

Just wanted to know if he was running them as downriggers, or just using duct tape to hold 'em in place.......