Crappie getttin right

Two man limit last two mornings out.

Wow nice mess congrats!

Good haul 👍🏻

Awesome

WOW! I need some of that! May have to try it this weekend.

Good mess of fish.
Jigs or minnows? (I see the bucket)

NICE

Good job! I need some thump therapy

Me and the boy went yesterday evening, caught 1. We need a lesson.

Miners along grass next to creek channel.

I cant ever get them to bite minnows but I cast that little jig head over to em and



Then those turn into these

I know it’s a dumb question.
What’s the best way to rig minners for crappie?

Hook tiny spilt shot and bobber

Through the lips and out the top of the head.

ridgestalker check your PMs. And NO I’m not looking for his fishing spot. LOL

I like to open their mouth and go thru top thru nostril.

Ive alot tight lining and with bobbers, good messuh fish right ther..i figured somebody was catchin them somewhere

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Nice crappie!

Y'all wearin' 'em OUT!

Looks great

Dang you are killing them. I would not know what to do with a mess like that. How long will they stay good in the freezer?

I just cooked a bag that was a year old Saturday before game. Freeze them in water. Trying to get stocked up before deer season.

Great I froze 100 or so last spring and was gonna do a big fry sometime this winter just making sure they would taste the same. I did put them in water

Hey Walker, what time we meeting at the boat ramp in the morning? Your boat or mine? 😀

You tell me. I dont have to work tomorrow and I was planning on fishing.

You got a heater on the boat! That’s cheating! I’d put an A/C on mine if it would help in the summer

We have 2 heaters one for me and one for Dad. Pontoon is about as comfortable and safe as it gets.

There’s lots of things you can do with a pontoon to make them very comfortable to fish from. I don’t know if I’ll ever have one but they’re great for crappie, bream and catfishing.

I took the info in this thread and tried me some crappie fishing today, we caught exactly zero crappie. I am a terrible crappie fisherman. That is not ok with me.

Find the shad and the crappie will be close by.

Monday when me and the boy caught 1 crappie, there was more bait in that creek than ive ever seen anywhere. I figured they must have had all they could eat already

That describes me to a T too. I can catch the crap out of them from Feb-June but the rest of the year is a real struggle. I keep trying to learn, and keep getting knocked back down.

Did you try today at Guntersville?

They one we filleted today were swelled up full of shad.

I asked a good friend of mine who fishes alot where he would go if somebody told him to fish the edge of grass near a creek channel. He said morgans cove and I knew exactly the grass he was talking about. When I got out there, it just didnt look like what I expected, most of the grass was short, right on bottom. I couldnt find any fish so I tried in the deeper parts of the channel, I never found any fish. I felt like I had just sat down to play fortnight with my son, if you know what I mean. I was lost. I didnt want to go sit under a bridge so we took out and went to the dam and caught a few fish, nothing to brag about. Im gona have to have somebody teach me what to look for as far as the crappie go, I just dont know what im doing. Ive found plenty of bait at times but ive never found crappie with them, then again maybe they were there and I didnt know what I was doing. Its just really discouraging being ignorant and thats what it boils down to, ignorance.

I was going to say if you fished the south end of Guntersville there aren't many good channels left in the creeks. There are some, but all creeks don't have channels. There's a lot of difference in the layout of the south end and up where Ridgestalker fishes. I think I'm about to start travelling to crappie fish.

I fish Morgans cove, a lot. Of all the places I've thought to try that meet Ridgestalkers criteria, that place never crossed my radar. I think you got garholed. LOL

Check your PM's.

Short creek,Town creek and South Sauty some of the best crappie fishing on Guntersville.

If he garholed me, it wasnt on purpose. The grass was probably right out to the edge of the creek channel last time he was there. He gives me alot of good info over the years. Hes also one of my best friends.

Dad gum you.

I might just have to try to catch some of those myself next week.

Bite was a little off ended up with 42. Time to deer hunt til February.

I went for a couple hours this afternoon and didn’t even get a bite. I did not find any crappie where they were two weeks ago.

Good job, Walker!!