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HOT WEATHER CRANKIN’ FOR CRAPPIE WITH KENT DRISCOLL
Kent Driscoll of Cordova, Tennessee, has fished for crappie for over 30 years and com-
petes in national crappie tournaments each season.
Question: Kent, how do you catch crappie when the weather’s almost too hot to
breathe?
Driscoll: I’ll troll crankbaits all sum-
mer, fishing for suspended crappie.
Right now, the crappie are just start-
ing to get into their summer pattern
and following big schools of shad out
on the flats. I start early in the morn-
ing pulling shallow-running crankbaits,
like Bandit 200s and Strike King Se-
ries 3s. These crankbaits run about 8-
to 11-feet deep. As the sun rises, the
crappie go down a little deeper and
move from 12- to 16-feet deep in the
lakes I’ll be fishing this summer. So, I’ll
switch over to the Bandit 300s and the
Strike King Series 5 crankbaits. I’ll use
deep-diving crankbaits as the crappie
move deeper because of the light pen-
etration and the action from water ski-
ers and jet skiers on the surface. The
surface temperature’s getting warmer
also causes the crappie to move deep-
er.
To learn more tips and tactics for catch-
ing crappie in the spring and summer
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