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How To Avoid Common Mistakes That Can Cut Your crappie Catches 50% or more!

Every crappie fisherman has had his good and bad days. The trick is to avoid the common mistakes all crappie fisherman make so you can always increase your chances of a good catch. Lets be realistic, our free time is limited. Most of us work full time jobs and when we go fishing it is our release on the constant stresses of life. I did some extensive research about crappie fishing and came up with the following common crappie fishing mistakes.

#1 Patience Doesn’t “Pay” Crappie fishing mistake

We have all heard that Patience pays when fishing for crappie. Unfortunately that is not correct when fishing for crappie.Crappie are a schooling fish and they they like to move allot, so you have to locate these schools to catch fish. So when your fishing for crappie it is very important to be on the move constantly to find the crappie schools.

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Old School Crappie Fishing Family Secrets

Well anglers now that winter is near over and the ice is off most of the lakes, ponds, rivers and streams all we need to do know is wait for the crappie spawn to catch some big slab spring crappie. Wrong! You are missing out on some of the most amazing spring crappie fishing. The fishing pressure will be light because of the Cold and unpredictable weather. If you can tolerate some cold crummy weather you will experience some of the most spectacular spring crappie fishing.

After ice out it is time to go out and start your spring crappie fishing. After ice out, the crappie are still holding in deep water but will start their move into holding areas close to their spawning beds. They will be hungry and will be there feeding like crazy. The water will be very cold, so you will have to use a very slow bait presentation. The trick is being able to locate the fish, there are some fundamentals you need to be aware of to find the big slab pre-spawn spring crappie. Oh you won’t have to be out on the lake at first light either. It has been my experience , afternoon is a better this time of year because there is some sun warming and the crappie feed on the moving bait fish more in the afternoon.

A good place to start your spring crappie fishing is at the last places the ice fisherman were catching crappie. If you don’t ice fish contact some ice fisherman and find out their last fishing locations. The fish will be holding at these locations right after ice out. If your lake is shallow, head to the deeper boat channels around your lake, the fish will be locate here. In deeper lakes head to narrowing creaks and channels feeding off the lake the spring crappie will be located there. I rivers head for channels that feed off the main river.

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