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[Guest]

thanks jigsticker..love those crappies!...crappie tom....I usually take along 4-5 rods myself...all ultra-lights...each rigged differently ...one rod with a 1/32 ounce white maribou...another with a small beetlespin with the black "twister"...another with a pencil bobber with a 1/32 ounce maribou (i sometimes use deer hair jigs also "flu flu types or tiny shad darts...)plus my fly rod...there's times when i throw poppers at the crappies when the conditions are perfect...a crappie on a flyrod is a battle for sure(anything on a fly rod is a battle..lol) plus alot of times when i'm looking out into deeper water for those surfacing crappies ,big bull blugills are mixed in with the crappies another reason i take the flyrod......another deadly offering to the crappies i use is a tube jig (usually a darker color)...i put a 3" stinger(walleye type stinger with a tiny treble) inside the tube jig with a small split shot pinched on the stinger for weight...when a crappie hit's this, you don't loose him....simple as that...fish it alone or under a bobber....works slick!...jon

[CrappieJohn]

Sixmile...Thats a new twist...thanks for the tip....bet it does wonders on post front fish with light lips. Crapster

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[pikehunter]

Hey Tom ... Regarding the phenomenal day you had in the wind not long ago, do you recall if you were on the wind-blown side of the lake? I read several times that Walleyes will re-locate to the wind-blown side of the lake in windy conditions because the bait fish get swept their and it's easy feeding. I suppose its possible that, while spawning crappies may not relocate, they could get turned on in a feeding frenzy in such conditions. I'd appreciate your opinion.

Thx, Pike

[CrappieJohn]

Pikehunter...Once the craps are in the groove to spawn it seems to be darned hard to get them to move. They will slow down a bit as witnessed with this last cold snap we had over the weekend. The wind was NOT coming into the shoreline that I was fish, but paralleling it. Also, the wind came in radical gusts of up to 40 mph which put a real washboard surface on the water instead of whities. Personally I think the wind direction was causing shoreline buglife to wash out into the mainstream and mixing them down into the water column to some extent, but more than anything the bright light was diffused severely. The wave activity did not "over-motion" the jig either and allowed it to do it's thing as in calm water. The fish seemed to hit as they would during heavy, but not raining, weather during the spawn....almost like a late evening/ early nighttime bite. It was incredible. And the way they hit....I used three times the number of tubes as I normally would have for the same number of fish. Some hits were so violent they tore the tube completely off the head!

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Sure life happens- why wait....The Crapster

[This message has been edited by CrappieTom (edited 06-02-2003).]