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Post by mike on Oct 18, 2006 13:43:32 GMT -5
can anyone tell me if this is a good time of year for crappie fishing off the shore? or am I wasting my time. Doing pretty well with largemouths, but it has to be early morning.
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Post by GordonsOwner on Oct 18, 2006 21:37:35 GMT -5
You can catch crappies all year, as long as you can find em! IMO the best (and easiest) time to catch more than the occassional crappie is in the spring. Once ice is out (or the water starts to warm) they along with most other panfish move to more shallow warmer water to spawn, rocks tend to attract them as well. I've done good on crappies at chambers on the main park side down near all the boulders and up close to the damn. If you park at the one lot near the ampitheatre in the main park, there is a trail that goes through the woods and brings you out by the rangers boat dock, you can access the rocks from there (just in case you, or anyone else didnt know about that)
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Post by mike on Oct 19, 2006 14:42:56 GMT -5
99, thanks for the suggestions. I do 99% of my chambers fishing down by the dam. I do real well with bass there. I also hang around the boat dock.. also do well with bronzebacks there. I have always wondering how you got to the rangers boat dock so I'll try that out. thanks again.
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Post by vanmc on Oct 23, 2006 14:42:39 GMT -5
Is chambers worth trying for Crappie this time of year. I was thinking of taking the boat there some time soon to give it a shot. I was getting into some at marsh Creek last weekend really deep. Found them in 47 feet of water suspended off the bottom
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Post by fishncool on Oct 24, 2006 7:05:11 GMT -5
I never caught a legal crappie at Chambers but i almost always fish for bass. its a panfish enhancement lake. they are in there though. I have seen one fellow target them in a boat by looking for visual activity on the surface and using twister tail type lures. Saw another guy catching from shore right next to the launch but they were shorts. just remember at Chambers there is very little protection from the wind
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Post by GordonsOwner on Oct 24, 2006 22:29:59 GMT -5
and windy it was the other day when I drove by, I've caught some small crappies fly fishing off the right right of the boat dock, never any of real size, actually I think I've only had one outing there ever, that produced good sized fish. I hear some good fish being caught there but not by me!
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Post by vanmc on Oct 25, 2006 8:13:31 GMT -5
Maybe in a couple of years it will start producing slab crappies. You guys are right on that wind. it can be brutal there.
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Post by GordonsOwner on Oct 25, 2006 9:10:35 GMT -5
Yea i guess well see if the enhancement program works! I really wish they would start something like that at marsh, to me 50 a day is just a little overboard. and IMO theres no reason to keep a 4" gill unless its for bait!!
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Post by vanmc on Nov 1, 2006 9:48:49 GMT -5
I Totally agree that keeping small gills is crazy. After following the practices of some veteran panfisherman I have been talking with I only keep gills that are 8" and over.
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