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Spots for Fall Action

Spring Spawning Sites Spending time with your electronics is
Fall is a time when you can go to your worth the effort. You’ll catch more fish by
spring spawning sites and have a good finding the sweet spots before dropping a
chance of finding fish. Expect fish to be a hook into the water.

little deeper but in the same general areas
where they spawned.
the next spot.
Experts always recommend using Minnows or jig/minnow combos work
electronics to look at an area with your great for slow trolling. A crappie will usually
sonar. Knowing the location of a small drop- hang on to a minnow longer so it gives more
off, flat with cover, a rocky bottom and a time to see and react to bites. A crappie will
ball of baitfish in the spawning region can sometimes come back to hit a minnow a
reduce your search time. Putting baits in second time when it won’t a jig.
high-percentage spots results in more fish
at the end of the day.
Wood with Shad
Slow trolling is a great technique to use There is no one place where you will
because it allows multiple baits and lets them always find shad, but a dream spot is 7- to
stay in the water. You can fish the locations 10-foot water with wood cover. Crappie are
found on the sonar plus the baits can be following shad to do some heavy feeding.
trolled slowly while looking for or traveling to Add wood to the equation and the spot can

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