With these cool nights, how long y’all think until the crappie get right?

I bet a dollar you catchem right now in 6-8 ft of water around boathouses with a good drop off close by

Rinse an repeat that about anywhere..use your imagination

It will pick up soon. If the lows would stay in the 50s

I don't know why yall think they ever quit biting?

Bingo

Saw a pile of them in 15-25 feet this week some huge groups on the bottom on a drop and a huge group on standing timber

People ask me when will crappie start biting? I always tell them I have never seen one float up starved to death

You on Lay? I went over Monday and couldn't find any in Paint creek. Places that have held big schools the previous 2 summers just haven't held them this year. I finally went up river and started finding small groups, but they were nice fish. The only larger schools I found were 7-9" fish with no big ones. I had a decent day, but never saw the big schools I used to see on Lay. I think I need to start fishing further up the river.

It's been easy to find big schools on Martin all summer. They don't always bite aggressively, but they are always there. If a fellow just wants to catch crappie, he can go to Martin and fish the bridges with minnows and catch them most any time.

Yes. Saw some in paint on standing timber one day a week or two ago, the big group was on a long point across the river in front of the public boat ramp the other big group was on timber a couple hundred yards in the creek just before the narrows on the right if you are going up river

Thanks for the tips! I'll look for them Monday

However, we all know that they are easier to catch at certain times… Fact!

That's a.fact and it's picking back up now. Only problem down this.way is water is all stirred up.

I’ve got to where I’d rather fish high muddy water than anything, but I have a little help finding them

Me and a buddy caught quite a few this weekend from the kayaks. Almost every one of them was 4-6' down. Water temp was 75-ish, I think. We pulled probably 20 small ones (8-10") off 1 single tree, and probably 7 or 8 in the 10-12" range out from under a floating dock in 20' of water (bites were still only 4-6' down though). The few bigger ones we caught (a couple of 12-14" and one that was a hair over 15") were all solo.

What's weird is you could dangle a live minnow right in front of their nose and they wouldn't touch it, but you could vertical jig a Bobby Garland monkey milk in the exact same spot and they'd hammer it.

Every bite we got was pretty aggressive

Gomer…aint you fishin in a pond

Lake Tuscaloosa (more specifically, a creek that dumps into Lake Tuscaloosa)

Oh ok

Going after them tomorrow finally caught a day to take off..

Force fed em with the scope… it just ain’t fair im telling you..

Awww..aint none of it fair…whatem thangs doin…livin in a tree top..or under a boat house

Well I went to the furthest brush pile first, only had little ones in it 14 ft water
Went to a brush top in the back of a hollow channel 13ft water 10-12”ers
Fished some wood on a bluff wall 16ft water 10-12”ers
Pulled up on a flat to fish some stumps 10ft water 14-16”ers
Big wood in 32ft water suspended at 12-15ft water 9-12”ers
Pretty much scattered out, I caught some in open water schools, tried to scope some singles but I haven’t mastered that yet…

Ya'ever see the guilty looks on their little faces ? Swim in Lake Crisco.

I think the time is here:



A free tip - I was given a BPS gift card and spent some time just scrolling through their baits looking for something new that might appeal to schooling bass and crappie. A lot of baits will catch them but they get wise in a hurry, so I like to keep several rods rigged with different lures to give them a different look. I saw this walleye bait and thought they oughta like it, and they did. For at least one day, these preferred it over the jigging rap and everything else I had. We didn't catch but one bass on it, but I only saw one school and that was the only time we tried to fish for them.

Dang good haul

Nice catch!