• Learn When to Fish for Crappie at Night

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    The best crappie fishing – at least in my region of the South – is at anytime. But mid-May to mid-September when the weather is hot after the spawn, and the crappie are in the deep creek channels, drop-offs and ledges is the best night fishing. In hot weather, my personal experience has been that …

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  • How to Decide on Nighttime Crappie Baits and Equipment

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    There seems to be little controversy as to what is the best bait for catching crappie at night. The live tuffy or shad minnow is the most popular. The next question to be answered is which size minnow is the most-productive for catching crappie at night. Some highly-successful crappie anglers are convinced that big

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  • Learn to Fish the Right Place and Use Lights to Catch Crappie at Night

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    Nighttime crappie aren’t that much different from daytime crappie, since they like to migrate up and down old creek and river channels, prefer to school-up around some kind of bottom structure and will feed where they find bait readily available. An angler who considers these ingredients easily can begin to diagram

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  • One of the Best Crappie Nighttime Fishing Trips Ever

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    After trying to catch crappie one night for more than 7 hours, at first when my line twitched, I thought a minnow had run into it or a bug had hit it. But as that line swam off, I reached for the rod, reeled and felt a heavy fish at the other end of the …

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  • When Crappie Fishing at Night Is a Bust

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    Bored! That’s what I was – totally, absolutely, unequivocally bored. I had been sitting on the aluminum seat of my johnboat for 2-1/2-hours in the glow of my Coleman lantern. I had watched shad minnows swim around and around under the light until my eyes were closing. I had observed bugs falling into the light

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