Page 3 - Crappie NOW | April 2015

EDITOR/ SR. WRITER Opening Cast
WRITERS
Darl Black I don’t know about
Vic Attardo you, but this global
Jeff Samsel warming is about to put a
Keith Sutton kink in my crappie fishing
Ron Presley this year! I didn’t buy a
Vernon Summerlin ticket on the Siberian
John Neporadny, Jr Express or request their
kind of winters! Recently,
© Copyright 2015 I caught a few crappie
that were wearing warm
Cover Photo: gear! I know at the other
Punching a jig through thick end of the rod holder, the
cover can be challenging but fisherman was wearing layers.
In spite of the weather, 2015 has been a
rewarding. good year for crappie fishing. My partner and
Photo by Keith Sutton I have already caught several black crappie
over 3-pounds in Florida. The spawn across the
country is being delayed due to the slow spring
warm up and should make for some awesome
fishing in April.
Once water temperatures start to rise on
your favorite fishing waters, the crappie will
begin staging on the ledges near these areas
and once the water temperatures reach 52-56
degrees, you should find the males in the shallow
spawning areas with the females a little deeper,
near these areas.
After the spawn, spider rigging, pulling
jigs and crank baits can fill limits quickly. New
techniques and products are scoring big wins
on the Crappie Master’s pro tour. I will be using
Johnson Shad Cranks and have learned the new
O ff Sh o r e Ta ckle p la n e r b o a r d te c hni ques to
catch these roaming post-spawn fish. You will
see articles with how-to on these techniques in
this and the coming month’s editions.
As Tim stated last month, we take great pride
in offering what we believe is the best crappie
online magazine available, we do it monthly, and
we do it for free. Thank you for reading and I
hope you have a blessed crappie fishing month.
Heading fishing and putting on my Stormr cold
weather gear to keep me warm and dry.
God Bless,
Dan Dannenmueller Sr., Publisher

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