In the spring crappie will begin the migration to shallow areas once the water temperatures have warmed up to forty-five to fifty degrees, schooling near the mouths of creeks until the water temperature rises to fifty-five degrees. This migration process is already under way in much of North America, and this is the time that anglers can find them migrating to the shallower
Every year I buy the latest soft plastic baits only to use them once or twice if they don't produce fish right away. My go to baits for quite a few years have been Berkley Gulp 3" Shrimp, Berkley Gulp 4" Swimming mullet, D.O.A. C.A.L. 3" Shad Tail & C.A.L. 4" Jerk Bait. I use these baits 75 % of the time on a leadhead, bucktail jig, swimbait hook or a unweighted hook. Most of the
On my first trip to SW Florida in early January I was in Fishin' Franks in Port Charlotte checking out the soft plastic baits. Frank came over to me and asked if I tried the MirrOlure Lil John Soft Plastic Twitch Baits yet. He claimed that they were the hottest baits around so I bought two packs, Golden Bream and New Penny. When I got back to my condo I checked them out and I wasn't impressed,
For the past five or six years I have been using an EconoLipper(now sold as the EconoScale) fish grip on my kayak. Like my reels the EconoLipper required constant TLC because I fish saltwater on my kayak. The EconoLipper is a quality tool but I may have forgot to rinse it in fresh water and spray the innards with WD40 last November. When I went to use it in January
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