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Lilly Pad Crappie Fishing
Don Schnable
May 26, 2014
Bull Shoals - Freshwater Fishing Report
The Lily Pad" Crappie
Strategy
To catch crappie around lily pads, you'll want
to start by easing up to the lily pads and try
something like a 12 foot pole with 8-pound
test.
Couple it with a ¼-ounce jig head, and you've
got your rig.
Now, the crappie are lying in wait, just under
the lily pads because they are expecting a
visit from minnows they intend to ambush.
What you have to do is swim your jig right
under the pad - using the ¼-ounce jig will help
carry you down in the hole between the lily pads
with such a long pole (which is used to give
you the power and leverage to yank that crappie
right out of the water as soon as it bites).
Remember that a hole may have more than one
crappie, and the faster you can yank one out of
the water without a real disturbance, the better.
You want to grab more from the same hole. If
there's no struggle on the crappie's part, his
friends will think he's been abducted by aliens
rather than caught for the next fish fry and
won't be so spooked and likely to turn tail
and run (pun intended).
You can find a ton of brilliant strategies
for catching crappie in almost any situation
you can imagine here:
Target Species:
Crappie
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