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SPRING CRAPPIE TIPS
attract crappie and are easily located by
sonar. I discovered this years ago when The author shows off a nice crappie taken
the air temperature was about 30 degrees. off wood. (Photo by Jeff Falkenberry)
Crappie disappeared from the beds and a
friend’s depth finder found fish scattered in screen. Open water crappie usually school in
groups along a long, rocky flat. We cruised big numbers and are easily found on a sonar
back and forth, watching the depth finder and screen, especially today’s modern versions
catching a crappie every time we stopped or that can almost count the spots on a fish.
paused over a spot that showed fish on his
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