sharing - received this from a friend in Canada, Marty
My neighbor Mike, his grown son, his young daughter and I went Crappie fishing Saturday morning in Big Bald Lake, near the village of Buckhorn.
Things started slowly, perhaps because of the thunderstorms late Friday night, or perhaps the wind was pushing the warm water away from the spots that are usually our favourites..
From nine until noon we caught a few Sunfish and a couple of Out of Season Bass. From noon until two we caught nothing!. As host of this Shindig, I was getting worried!!!
At about two o'clock I caught a mid-size Crappie in four FOW, on a split tail Crappie jig. Knowing that these are school fish, we turned back on ourselves and re-fished a 100 meter section of shoreline...
During the next 90 minutes the four of us boated 40 Crappie, and a few large Sunfish, before calling it quits. A few were caught on dew worms, but most were caught on small plastics under a slip bobber. The hot technique was to cast and wait for a touch, or pick-up...then to move the bait an inch or so.
We were using "Darter" type jig heads, so when you pulled the line, the bait would rise away from the fish, then spiral down on the slack line...
The spiral decent was the trigger!
If you stayed in touch with the bait a fish would pick it up, and turn away...by just reeling you would set the hook.
In spite of the slow start I would have to call this a great Opening Day.
Things started slowly, perhaps because of the thunderstorms late Friday night, or perhaps the wind was pushing the warm water away from the spots that are usually our favourites..
From nine until noon we caught a few Sunfish and a couple of Out of Season Bass. From noon until two we caught nothing!. As host of this Shindig, I was getting worried!!!
At about two o'clock I caught a mid-size Crappie in four FOW, on a split tail Crappie jig. Knowing that these are school fish, we turned back on ourselves and re-fished a 100 meter section of shoreline...
During the next 90 minutes the four of us boated 40 Crappie, and a few large Sunfish, before calling it quits. A few were caught on dew worms, but most were caught on small plastics under a slip bobber. The hot technique was to cast and wait for a touch, or pick-up...then to move the bait an inch or so.
We were using "Darter" type jig heads, so when you pulled the line, the bait would rise away from the fish, then spiral down on the slack line...
The spiral decent was the trigger!
If you stayed in touch with the bait a fish would pick it up, and turn away...by just reeling you would set the hook.
In spite of the slow start I would have to call this a great Opening Day.
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