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Post by guru on Feb 21, 2010 13:10:46 GMT -4
I dont do much fishing for panfish, except for crappie. Any techniques or effective baits you use? Imho, aside from catfish from clean water, crappie is one of the best eating fish, family loves em, and i generally make it a point to go 2 or 3 times per year to catch a mess.
Fishing is much more reliable at night under lights that attract the zoo-plankton & tiny fish feeding on it, in turn fed on by the crappies. I like fishing with small size minnows and also 1" rubber grubtail jigs tipped with a couple maggots or a waxworm.
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Post by tracer on Feb 21, 2010 18:46:07 GMT -4
My dad likes to fry up some sunfish for breakfast in the summer time. Delicious.
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Post by yihunt on Feb 21, 2010 20:00:21 GMT -4
I like using small minnows fished under a bobber or a small rubber twister tail on a 1/32 or 1/64 oz jig head. The ponds on SGL 223 (The old Lone Star farm property) used to have some good crappie fishing. I haven't fished pond on the back side of the RR tressle for a long time. I mostly fish them now for bluegill to use for flathead bait.
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Post by tbass on Feb 22, 2010 8:05:39 GMT -4
I used to go fishing below the spillway at Howard for crappies when I was in my late teens. We used fathead minnows and the action was so fast at night you couldn't use more than one rod. It was a lot of fun and non-stop action. We never kept them though since they were smaller than a mans hand, but it sure was fun.
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Post by biggtrout on Mar 2, 2010 9:51:45 GMT -4
I'm looking forward to the spring crappie bite. I usually fish Bald Eagle SP - hoping to get down to Raystown a few times this year as well.
I pretty much stick with a slip bobber rig with either minnows or jigs. Alot of times in the early spring, I find the crappie holding in some pretty deep water and you need the slip rig to get down to them.
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Post by tbass on Mar 2, 2010 10:08:19 GMT -4
Is bald eagle state park near howard north of milesburg? It sound familiar to me.
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