I recently wrote an article about how big baits attract big crappie but I found out yesterday that little crappie will also bite mega-sized lures. While fishing with my neighbor on my home waters of Lake of the Ozarks, we tried for some crappie inside the wells of condominium docks and found that crappie of all sizes liked a blue-white 3-inch Bobby Garland Slab Slay'R (www.genelarewlures.com) attached to a 1/8-ounce jighead. I caught lots of keeper crappie in the spring on the 2-inch version but this was the second time I had tried the 3-inch model and both times I have caught small fish and keepers.
We pitched into the wells and counted the jigs down to 10 to 20 and usually got strikes when the lure was falling. The fish were suspended in the wells over depths of 40 to 55 feet. I hoped by using the bigger lure we would discourage the little fellows and catch keepers only, but we caught only 8 keepers and probably about 40 short fish.
I might have to amend that article about catching big fish on big baits after this latest trip.
To read another article on techiques for catching suspended crappie in the fall, visit my website at www.jnoutdoors.com and click on the articles section.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Carol's first trout trip
Welcome to my first venture into blogging.
Since I rarely get to write about my personal fishing trips in my articles, this is my chance to brag or whine about my fishing trips. I also will give some comments on some of the products I used during the trips.
Last weekend, my wife Carol and I attended a Missouri Outdoors Communicators conference at Branson and after the conference, we decided to spend an extra day at Lilley's Landing (http://www.lilleyslanding.com/) and rent one of their boats to try some trout fishing at Lake Taneycomo. Since it was Carol's first trout fishing trip, I set her up with a drift rig and nightcrawlers and she caught a limit of rainbows. She was able to bait her own hook since we tried a new device, Uncle Jack's Worm Slicer and Line Puller (http://www.unclejackswormslicer.com/), that made it easy to slice the worms into smaller pieces without all the mess.
I managed to catch a limit of trout on a 1/32 ounce olive green jig and also caught four or five more Carolina-rigging a fluoroscent orange Berkley Gulp trout worm.
The next day I went to the dam and forced myself to fish with a fly rod while Carol went shopping. I did manage to catch one rainbow, had a brown trout break off and had another brown jump off. When Carol got back to pick me up, I asked her to give me 45 minutes with my spinning rod and proceeded to catch three rainbows and had four other strikes before my time ran out. Maybe next time I will start with my strengths and finish with the fly rod.
Since I rarely get to write about my personal fishing trips in my articles, this is my chance to brag or whine about my fishing trips. I also will give some comments on some of the products I used during the trips.
Last weekend, my wife Carol and I attended a Missouri Outdoors Communicators conference at Branson and after the conference, we decided to spend an extra day at Lilley's Landing (http://www.lilleyslanding.com/) and rent one of their boats to try some trout fishing at Lake Taneycomo. Since it was Carol's first trout fishing trip, I set her up with a drift rig and nightcrawlers and she caught a limit of rainbows. She was able to bait her own hook since we tried a new device, Uncle Jack's Worm Slicer and Line Puller (http://www.unclejackswormslicer.com/), that made it easy to slice the worms into smaller pieces without all the mess.
I managed to catch a limit of trout on a 1/32 ounce olive green jig and also caught four or five more Carolina-rigging a fluoroscent orange Berkley Gulp trout worm.
The next day I went to the dam and forced myself to fish with a fly rod while Carol went shopping. I did manage to catch one rainbow, had a brown trout break off and had another brown jump off. When Carol got back to pick me up, I asked her to give me 45 minutes with my spinning rod and proceeded to catch three rainbows and had four other strikes before my time ran out. Maybe next time I will start with my strengths and finish with the fly rod.
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