Ice Fishing Tips -Check your local regulations! > Crappies
How often do you move?
potatoe:
The guys I fish with drill and sit, it seems to work for them. The theory they have the fish keep moving they will come back around.
I get impatient and start drilling, not sure it helps but keeps you moving
meandcuznalfy:
On a new lake I'll drill lots of holes and hole hop until I mark fish, if bite slows I'll do the same again. Lakes I regularly fish I don't move much.
claymore6:
my experience (upstate NY) has Crappie usually moving in small schools this time of year. I think the schools move along the same, lets call them pathways, as they move from deeper water to shallow water. The trick is to get a hole above one of those pathways that concentrate the fish.
I start out with one hole and if I catch 2-5 in the first hour I tend to stick with that hole. If that first hole is a dud, I'll try another until I hit a good hole. After a few moves and if I still have not found the fish, I'll drill a series of hole and move from hole to hole. Of course, it helps to haver had prior success in the area and to be there at duck and dawn.
Mr. Charlie:
--- Quote from: rdhammah on Feb 07, 2019, 11:27 AM ---find the area where they are at and turn it into swiss cheese. they are roaming. once I find them, I fish the hole. when they are gone and I can't bring them back, I move to the next hole. if nothing, I move in a circular pattern. eventually, you will find them. Yes, I always go back to the hot hole to dbl check
Seems to work best for me as well. Small area or type of bottom and move around that area from hole to hole and the first hot hole seems to always have a few after I return to it.
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Kevin23:
--- Quote from: markinohio on Feb 07, 2019, 10:38 AM ---Is it more productive to chase the crappie, or stay-put and try to call them in?
I’m usually very impatient, and will move if I’m not marking fish within 15 minutes of dropping the transducer. However, this weekend dragging the flip-over through wet snow really slowed me down. I feel like I did just as well (if not better) sticking with the hole, and calling the crappie in with a rattle bait.
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For crappies, I won't even fish if I don't see them on the flasher when I drop the ducer down. Keep drilling and moving until I see them, then keep chasing the schools around. The exception would be right at first/last light when they are pretty stationary in the feeding areas.
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