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The crappie is sometimes a very underestimated game fish that has many names such as calico bass, speckled perch, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappie, strawberry bass, and papermouth.  Bait fishing for crappie in the fall can sometimes be very confusing. As the water starts to cool the crappies normal feeding and living patterns are unpredictable. Patterns you were anticipating and using in the late summer months may not work in the fall. The bait fish have stopped spawning so there is more competition for the remaining bait fish. The fact can actually work to your advantage, there are a few facts about bait fishing for crappie in the fall that you need to study on first.

It is true that the bait fish will be larger and you would think that you would need increase your crappie jig size in this fishing situation to match the size of the crappie’s food source and in many occasions you would be right. But what you need to understand in the late fall as the water temperature continues to drop, that the crappie’s metabolism will drop. and the calico bass will not chase your crappie jigs unless you use a very slow bait fishing presentation.

Now I am going to tell you something that goes against your logic and what you would normally do when the food source for the paper mouth is at a larger size. In the later fall and winter you can use smaller jig sizes or use some method to slow way down your larger crappie jigs. The reason many crappie anglers use a smaller bait fishing presentation such as small jigs is because they float downward through the water at much slower pace and perfect for the slow and sluggish pole crappie in the late fall and winter months.

OK I Mentioned above briefly that you can still use larger crappie jigs as your bait fishing method but they need to worked in the water very slowly. If you are going to fish for crappie with a larger crappie jig then you need to use a heavier line because heavy line sinks much slower in the water. Also you a slip bobber to fish in deeper water.

Also, When you catch your firstwhite perch clean the fish and see what the crappie has been eating so you can get a good idea of what the size of the bait fish are they are eating.

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The crappie is one of the most popular game fish in North America. and parts of Canada and understanding some basic crappie bait fishing information may help you to catch more crappie. The crappie is called many things and go by names such as calico bass, speckled perch, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappie, strawberry bass, and papermouth throughout the United States.

The main reason calico bass are so popular is their abundance. speckled bass are not one of the best fighting fish that are caught while fishing but they are very tasty. Another good reason is because the fishing rigs to catch crappie are reasonably inexpensive. In fact for about 20$ you could be ready to go crappie fishing. Even when you decide to get real serious about crappie fishing you can purchase a really good crappie bait fishing rig for under 200$. Actually the strawberry bass species of fish is a excellent fish to target if you are just learning to fish. Once pole crappie are located they can be caught using a simple crappie fishing rig that has a bobber, split shot, a sinker, a hook and a crappie minnow as bait.

There are two types of pole crappie species that you can target when you go bait fishing and they are the white speckled perch and the black papermouth. Both are found only in North America. Both white and black crappie are part of the sunfish family. Both white speckled bass and black white perch can be caught using the same bait fishing methods. And both white and black speckled perch can be found in the same water locations.

White white perch prefer stained or muddy waters that have soft substitutes. The black papermouth is a little bit more particular about the water they live in, and they prefer cool clearer water and they like to habitat close to aquatic vegetation with a firm bottom. Many crappie anglers who go bait fishing for crappie on a regular basis don’t care what species of they catch just so it’s a crappie.

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Article 109 weeds and crappie How Do they relate?

Crappie are not built for speed or power and they like to stay close to shallow water for there is plenty of structure and where most of their crappie food is located. The food chain will be the thickest where plankton is the thickest, which normally is located in large flats and bays on the wind ward side. crappies are often mentioned by local fisherman with names such as calico bass, speckled bass, speckled perch,white perch,pole crappie,strawberry bass and papermouth. You can use crappie baits like crappie jigs tipped with soft plastic grubs and wax worms. Crappie live baits like crappie minnows, shiners, small gizzard shad,maggots,panfish leeches, and crayfish will work well too.

The white perch will relate to weeds in different ways. When you are crappie fishing in lakes and reservoirs that have large areas of weedy vegetation, look for suspended crappies any where from 5 to 15ft of the bottom in 25 to 30 feet of water. The The papermouth will suspend off a drop off lip in the bottom contour during the middle of the day and when there is direct sunlight they will suspend there too.The speckled bass will also suspend at drop off points during cold front conditions when the fish are in a negative feeding pattern. To entice the crappie which are in a neutral or negative feeding mood you can use popular crappie fishing jigs such as the Flu Flu, Chubby Jig, Puddle Jumper, Zetabait Wobbly Eye Jig, Custom Jigs & Spin Shrimpo, Blue Fox Foxee Jig, and the Lindy – Little Joe Timber Jig tipped with crappie live baits such as wax worms,maggots,crappie minnows,shiners,redworms,live nymphs, or crayfish. To ad some flash for even more attraction add a safety pin spinner to your crappie jig, or switch up your crappie bait to one to a popular crappie spinner bait such as a Blakemore Road Runner, Tad’s Cricket Spin,Terminator Tiny T, and the Bomber Mini – Whacker. To catch crappie you may want to verticle jig your crappie spinner baits to a vertical or horizontal depth that is eye level to thepole crappie.

            The papermouth will many times suspend at the bottom edge of beds at the base when they are in a active feeding mood. Under favorable weather conditions there will be entire schools of  paper mouth that will locate here as long as the crappie food lasts. During heavy feeding periods a regular crappie jig with a plastic grub will catch crappie. This concentration of speckled bass will normally occur in the late afternoon.

Schools of strawberry bass that were suspended along the base of weed edge lines will many times move horizontally along the weed line spending at a depth of 5 to 8 feet below the surface. This movement typically happens in the evening near sunset. Under ideal weather conditions you can sometimes see speckled bass coming to the surface and feeding as far as 100 feet away from the edge of the weed line. Right before night fall is a great time to catch crappie with a flyrod and a floating crappie jig. This one of the few times that papermouth like to feed on the surface.

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Open water crappie or structure crappie

 Crappie forage is the most important factor in whether crappie will be located in open water or structure.  Crappie are a amazing and adaptable species of fish and they go by many different names such as calico bass, speckled bass, speckled perch, white perch, pole crappie, and papermouth. What The white perch has to eat within close proximity will dictate the pole crappie location in lakes, reservoirs, rivers and ponds.

 In southern waters and Midwest waters adult papermouth will feed on shad,shiners,crappie minnows,fathead minnows,zooplankton,insects, and small crayfish. The paper mouth location will be dependant on which of these forage fish, insects,or small crustaceans are most abundant at a particular period of the year. The papermouth behavior will be influenced by local conditions such as long – term weather, geography, and fishery management.

  To catch crappie in these areas you want to use crappie baits that either imitate or a close match to the natural forage that the papermouth are eating at the time. For example if there was a new hatch of insect larva noticeable in the water then it’s a good bet you could catch crappie using crappie flies that look like the type of insect larva that is swimming in the water. You could also use very small crappie jigs with soft plastics that resemble the larva. Or if the larva are big enough you could catch some live and use them as live crappie bait.

 One very important factor in crappie fishing is understanding how crappie suspend. The pole crappie will typically be suspended at a certain depth no mater if you fish in open water or confined open water. If you understand how they suspend you will catch more crappie. Some popular crappie jigs such as the gum drop tube, micro jelly jig, bailey’s Crappie Magnet, Micromini Jig, and the Mizmo Mini Tube work great to catch most suspended crappie. The more you can learn about a particular crappie fishing hole you frequent, or when you plan your next crappie fishing trip to a crappie fishing Mecca, will make your crappie fishing more successful. Understanding how crappie suspend where ever you plan to go fishing will make you a more successful crappie angler.

Well this ends my article on suspended crappie. If you stay persistant and learn as much as you can about the crappie species you can become a advanced crappie fisherman.

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 The crappie thrives in reservoir environment and they are easy game fish  to catch in reservoirs if you understand where too look. The crappie is one of the most sought after game fish in America and they have been named odd names like calico bass,speckled perch,speckled bass,white perch,pole crappie,strawberry bass, and paper mouth across the country. In my article today I want to talk about classifying reservoirs for crappie fishing.

 There are typically six categories that a reservoir can be classified to too. There are canyon, plateau, highland, hill land, flat land, and lowland (sometimes called wetlands). All of these types of hold populations of white perch and if you understand where to look you can rig up your crappie rods with good crappie bait and catch crappie. Both man made and natural geological specifics will be combined together to determine classification of each reservoir. Thes classifiecations are to be used as reference only and they make good starting points when you plan a crappie fishing trip but every reservoir has it’s own unique classification components that may crossover to other reservoir classifications in some areas.

 Typical reservoir features are the head water or inlet area, the upstream area, the mid lake area, the downstream area the river arm area, and the dam area.  You can catch crappie in all areas of a reservoir depending on the season. Typically you can use crappie baits like crappie jigs tipped with live bait such as crappie minnows,small threadfin shad,small gizzard shad,flat head minnows,shiners,and small crayfish. You can also fish with crappie jigs with plastic grubs and tipped with wax worms.

 During the cold water period pole crappie will be in deep water so they can be located in the downstream area close the the dam. Durring the spring period the white perch will be located in the shallows which typically will be in the upstream areas or coves and feeder creeks. These areas are the where the crappie will spawn also.

 The middle of the reservoir is a transitional area for the papermouth during the changing of seasons where they migrate to different areas of the reservoir. Typically there will be some speckled bass crappie holding here during all but the during the cold water period. A good way to catch crappie in the midlake area is by drifting. If you are located in a state that allows multiple crappie rods, set they up at different depths and start drifting or back trolling until you start to catch crappie. Then anchor off and change all your crappie rods to the depth that you started catching crappie.

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