First ice crappies

[Mr.Cumstein]

Hit a couple favorite lakes while up in NW WI for the late doe season. Found a bunch of nice crappies, and a 40" northern one day. Did a lot better fishing this weekend than I did hunting.

[Spark]

Looks like you did pretty well, congrats on some nice fish. Hoping to find some crappie here in Nebraska on Friday and the weekend, went out monday and caught a bucket of gills now need crappies.

Good luck the rest of the year.

[Jeff in WI]

Mr. Cumstein, I've sent you a couple of PMs. Please check them.

[JUSTINM]

HEY NICE FISH. WE HAVE A LAKE HERE THAT HAS A FEW CRAPPIES IN IT BUT I NEVER SEEM TO FIND THEM. I WOULD THINK TO TRY THE SAME PLACE AS THE PERCH? DO YOU RUN A DIFFERANT DEPTH?

[mcavene824]

That must have been a great lil feast you had there bet those bad boys tasted real good too!

[Mr.Cumstein]

HEY NICE FISH. WE HAVE A LAKE HERE THAT HAS A FEW CRAPPIES IN IT BUT I NEVER SEEM TO FIND THEM. I WOULD THINK TO TRY THE SAME PLACE AS THE PERCH? DO YOU RUN A DIFFERANT DEPTH?

If you're catching perch you're probably not in the right spot. If you've been catching perch you need to change the depth of your hook. Perch run the bottom more often ,crappies will suspend. Move the hook depth up off the bottom and fish 3' or more up off of it.

This is how I usually set up. I like finding good structure with a weed line running with the contours. I like setting up for them that last 2 hours of light and fish 4 or so hours into the dark. Feeding crappies run those weed lines and I'll set up in 10-14' and wait for them.

[marriemb]

great catch the weekend proved great