Anyone catching crappie?

[the Lackster]

What part of the lake?

They are in choestoea creek right now. Ran over a ton of them today. Suspended at about 12ft in 20-25ft. Caught a nice one just dragging a Bobby Garland white shad body jig behind me while i was bass fishing. Had it about 4ft under a float. Water was 53° with a little color.

 

[Dupree]

We kept 15 crappie and two spots and threw back several largemouth and about a dozen smaller crappie. Caught them on minnow tipped jigs trolling in 12’-16’.

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Well I'm home. Did pretty decent. Bite slowed down later in the morning. Brought 17 home and caught at least double that. Got em on ice in the cooler
I'll get a picture of them tomorrow and post before I clean them. Caught spider rigging slow trolling .4-.6mph.

 

[hawkeye123]

23 the last couple of pm s off dock, caught 1 cat trolling jigs in am for an hour, kept 6 biggest 12" males mostly 2 females full of eggs water temp 57 sat

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Here's yesterday's catch at oconee. Brought 17 crappie home and one white. Threw back at least that many or more

 

[Fletch_W]

I only got 3 today. 2 had eggs. Gwinnett pond.

2 on monkey milk, 1 on black/chart minitube. Water very clear and wind very blowy. Only fished 2 hours. A bluegill and a largemouth also liked the monkey milk.

 

[Dutch]

Monkey Milk is a good color

 

[Dupree]

I haven’t paid attention to the names of the colors, but our number one has been the pink/purple circled. Close second has been the grey with green glitter

 

[Dupree]

View attachment 1069383Here's yesterday's catch at oconee. Brought 17 crappie home and one white. Threw back at least that many or more

Bottom fish looks like a good one!!

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Bottom fish looks like a good one!!

Yeah she was a nice one

 

[mizzippi jb]

We hooked up with about 15 this afternoon. And a couple white bass and a couple hybrids to boot.

 

[Dutch]

I haven’t paid attention to the names of the colors, but our number one has been the pink/purple circled. Close second has been the grey with green glitter View attachment 1069406

The pink/purple one is BG baby shad called Vegas,

 

[C.Killmaster]

Bottom fish looks like a good one!!

That fish is obese!

 

[fatback]

Got 9 nice ones this afternoon, 1 bream and 4 catfish. Wind was blowing pretty good. Got all of them pitching minnows under floats

 

[Thunder Head]

I dont crappie fish much.

We went to a local creek on Hartwell yesterday afternoon. Didnt get any bites on the bank. Marked some fish under bait in deeper water. Ended up catching 3 slabs a couple of keepers and 5 small ones. One huge white perch. We used medium minnows. The slabs came off down rods a couple feet of the bottom. (18 - 20') All the others came of slip bobbers set around 12'. Water temp 53. They seemed to be just roaming around on a big flat. It was pretty windy. When the wind laid the bite pretty much died.

Nice afternoon to be on the water.

 

[Dupree]

Caught some on my supper plate tonight. Hard to beat some fresh crappie.

 

[MrShangles]

Caught some on my supper plate tonight. Hard to beat some fresh crappie. View attachment 1069667View attachment 1069668

I gotta check my phone, you forgot to call me. That’s a good looking meal

 

[Kdog]

Saturday and Sunday for me... But not going after Crappie. I'm going way up the headwaters of Lanier to chase some other migrating fish. Tear em up!!!

So how did you do? We stayed on the lower end and caught striper, spots and LM.

 

[fish hawk]

Took the kayak out this afternoon to try some trolling,the wind was beating me down but I used it to my advantage and was able to drift some Bobby Garland baby shad on floats.Pretty much chaos at times as the bite was definitely on.I fished lights out on one rod and pearl white on the other and it quickly became apparent lights out was the color.No plans on keeping any today as I have plenty in the freezer

 

[Fletch_W]

How do you compare Crappie Bites to Crappie Nibbles?