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Catching suspended crappie in confined open water

True open water involves vast expanses of water over 20ft feet in depth. “Confined open water” defines areas of open water adjacent or near to shallow structural elements. The crappie is a very popular game fish that young,old, and novice and experienced fisherman have given names such as calico bass, speckled bass, speckled perch, white perch, pole crappie, strawberry bass, and papermouth. The speckled bass is a suspending species of fish but not a true open water fish like the steelhead, stripper bass, or salmon. True open water fish are streamlined, and powerful and able to cover large distances in a short period of time. The papermouth is not built for speed or power and stay near structure where most of the crappie food is located.

In lake and reservoirs where there is submerged timber lines key suspending crappie depths will be 30 to 55 ft deep. Using a slip bobber rig with a crappie jig tipped with a plastic grub and wax worm will work here. Try using weedless hooks on your crappie jigs and make sure you have enough weight to get your crappie jig down 30ft quickly. The weight of your crappie jig and a large split shot should do the trick. You can also use crappie jigging spoons tipped with crappie minnows and shiners. In stable weather there also will be suspended crappie just above the timber tops of the trees located out on the edge of the timber line.

Environmental circumstances will determine the pole crappie position on a timbered point. When weather conditions are mild and stable suspended crappie will be located high in the tree tops or they will move to shallower trees, but rarely in water less then 15ft deep. Yo can sometimes run suspended crappie artificial baits such as crappie crank baits at a specified depth and you will catch some crappie. Cold fronts, and fridgid wate or a drop in water levels will push the white perch into deeper water and into dense cove in the heart of the trees. These fish will have a negative feeding mood and will be hard to catch.

Suspended crappies in timberline areas are fun to catch once you learn where they are located at and at what depth. Just keep in mind that you can use a variety of different crappie baits such as crappie live baits like crappie minnows, gizzard shad, threadfin shad, shiners, fathead minnows, and even small crayfish to catch crappie. Or switch it up and a use a combination of artificial crappie jigs tipped with crappie live bait. Just use your imagination. 75 percent of you fishing is going to be finding the  speckled bass location.

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Flatland reservoirs water impoundments are a Mecca for catching crappie and just about any crappie baits will work if you know where to look. Crappies are often mentioned by local fisherman with names like calico bass, speckled perch, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappie, and papermouth. Many of the most famous crappie lakes such as Barkley Lake, Kentucky Lake, and Santee-Cooper are flatland reservoirs. These bodies of water all have shallow basins that extend from the main river channel and they slowly move through farmland and low hills. These lakes also include arms that are former tributary creeks, that are fed only in the spring.

 Flatland reservoirs are crappie hotspots because they are fertile, offer abundant vegetation which can cover 50% surface area. You will want to go crappie fishing on the edge of weeds, along flooded timber areas, brushy banks, and stumps.

 In murky flatland reservoirs you can catch crappie in the brush and stump areas using crappie fishing jigs with plastic grubs, and plastic tubes tipped with wax worms. Some of the most popular crappie jigs plastics include Northland’s gum drop tube, Turner Jones micro jelly jig, Bailey’s crappie magnet, Turner Jones micromini jig, Southern Pro umbrella tube, Mizmo mini tube, Mizmo earth-tone tube (Mini Thunder Rattle) Berkley power micro tube, and Turner Jones micro shrimp. You can also use crappie live baits such as crappie minnows, flathead minnows, shiners, shad, leeches, earthworms, chubs,  crayfish, herring, and alewives. You will also find speckled perch in the old river channel. You will want to fish the ledges where the edge of the channel is located. You may have some good luck with crappie jigs such as Northland’s gum drop tube, Turner Jones micro jelly jig, Bailey’s crappie magnet, Turner Jones micromini jig, Southern Pro umbrella tube, Mizmo mini tube, Mizmo earth-tone tube (Mini Thunder Rattle) Berkley power micro tube, and Turner Jones micro shrimp tipprd with live baits here. You could also use crappie crank baits trolled along the edge of the ledge where the drop off is located. Some old reliable crappie lure baits that have proven the test of time are Rapala, Blue Fox, Bill Lewis (Rat-L-Trap), Storm, Rebel, and Lindy – Little Joe.

 The crappie food base in flatland reservoirs is exceptionally abundant and all these areas hold large populations of  calico bass. Flatland reserevoirs will many times have a good population of trophy crappie because of the abundence of crappie food. Well that concludes our article about flatland reservoirs.

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ARTICLE 112 Understanding the crappies feeding habits What Do Crappies Eat?

One of the most important key ingredients to developing a consistent crappie fishing pattern to find and catch crappie begins and ends with the golden question: What are the crappies eating? Determining what the crappie forage is and learning the habits of the crappies food chain means one thing catch crappie!

 The crappies have some amazing names that local fisherman have given them over the years such as calico bass, speckled bass, speckled perch, white perch, pole crappie, strawberry bass, and paper mouth. The pole crappie has exceptional night vision and their eyes are the biggest of any other game fish when compared to their body size. This fact gives the paper mouth a distinct advantage over it’s crappie food such as zooplankton ,small shad,perch fry,shiners,crappie minnows,fathead minnows anywhere there is low light conditions.This is the main reason that paper mouth turn on at dawn, and sunset and feed aggressively at night. If you have ever thought of going night fishing for crappie you would make a good choice because the  white perch is very active at night.

 The strawberry bass is like many other preditors in the sense that they develop a close relationship with their prey. Once the conection is established where you find one you will find the other. Foe example if you notice that there is a new hatch of crappie minnows swimming near some weed growth you can bet there are some crappie  close by feeding on them. You can use this connection to your advantage when you are selecting your crappie fishing baits. Determine what the forage is the speckled bass crappie are feeding on at a certain location then select either your crappie artificial baits or crappie live baits to match as closely as possible. The more detail you include here the better your crappie catch will be. For example if the calico bass are feeding on crappie minnows than an excellent crappie bait would be a crappie jig tipped with live crappie minnows or a artificial crappie jig and soft plastic that resembles a crappie minnow.

 The connection between the prey and the speckled bass normally begins when three conditions occur.  The number on condition that triggers the start of the connection is when there is a large population of a certain crappie forage food such as in our example crappie minnows. The number two condition  is the prey are vulnerable such as when they are moving in migration or spawning. or example at night where the crappie have a distinct advantage. The number three connection is when a certain forage exsists in locations that the speckled perch are spawning.

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Reservoirs offer some fantastic crappie fishing if you know where to Look! The crappie species has been given odd names thought out the years such as calico bass, speckled perch, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappie, strawberry bass, and paper mouth. The key to catching crappie is understanding  where the pole crappie are located in reservoirs during a certain seasonal period. You can have all the latest and greatest crappie fishing gear but it will not do you any good if cannot locate any papermouth.

 A reservoir typically is defined as body of water that has been created by damming up a river. Types of reservoirs vary drastically so you need to do your home work before you go crappie fishing in one of these water impoundments and expect to catch crappie. The good thing about reservoirs is that they are man made so in most cases topographical map information is available to do your planning for your next crappie fishing trip.

Reservoirs are classified by their topography type based on the river that was dammed. Like I said before all reservoirs are not the same. Reservoirs range from large deep flooded canyons to shallow lowland wetland impoundments and each different reservoir type will have it’s own unique classification in order to develop your crappie fishing pattern.

One thing that is common about all reserervoirs is that papermouth thrive in the majority of them so its well worth the effort to learn what needed to go crappie fishing in them. Just about any crappie bait such as live baits like small shad,crappie minnows, shiners flathead minnows and small crayfish can be used to catch crappie.

 Typically a reservoir can be divided into three areas when you are doing your planning. Of course the deepest end will be area number one. This is the area closest to the dam in every reservoir. Area number two is where the new creek arm created by the damming blends in with the old creek channel. This area is always a good spot to locate pole crappie and it is likely you can catch crappie here.

 A good method of fishing for crappie in area number two is by setting up a number of your crappie fishing rigs at various depths tipped with live bait and artificial crappie jigs. When you start to catch crappie you can anchor off and continue to fish. Make sure you change the depth of all your crappie rods to the same depth that you started catching crappie. Area three is the shallowest of the three areas and is typically the farthest distance away from the dam. Typically these areas are great locations to catch crappie because there is abundance of good forage for crappie food. There also an abundance of structure in this area and during the spring this the area of the reservoir you want to fish because the  paper mouth will spawn here

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