| To know how to catch crappie in the spring you | | | | have to wait until they come back to you.After ice |
| must first follow their migration from where they are | | | | out the fun continues they suspend vertically out |
| in the winter.This is how you figure out where in the | | | | from where they are going to spawn. Under stable |
| world they are when they are not shallow as you | | | | weather ice horizontal presentations along the first |
| thought they would be. | | | | major break and or weed line. Under unstable |
| First when there under the ice they are in specific | | | | conditions which there is a lot of at this time of year |
| areas and once you and once you figure this out you | | | | use a float and combination,a stationary approach, |
| will know where they are not only for ice fishing but | | | | get the depth and speed down and you will catch a |
| for ice out and in the early spring. Shallow lakes 30 | | | | lot of crappies. |
| foot or less look for them in the basin, lakes that are | | | | After they leave their wintering areas remember |
| deep look for them in the 30-40 foot depth range.To | | | | they will stack up along the first major break where |
| figure out where there going get a lake map and | | | | their is weeds or wood. When they become active |
| draw a line from their wintering area to their early | | | | they move into the shallows and relate to weed or |
| spring location, look for a bay, man made channels or | | | | wood cover if its stable weather they may move |
| if your lake has neither look to the north end of the | | | | very shallow.If it is unstable weather they will stay |
| lake it warms up faster.a key on how to catch | | | | out on the break or weed line vertically bunching up. |
| crappie is to where their cover and food is. | | | | Once you locate them you will catch a lot of slabs |
| Determine their route from winter to spring and draw | | | | while your friends are waiting for the short spring |
| a line on that map look along this line for points, | | | | spawn. With this information you will know how to |
| bends, and hard to soft bottom transitions.Crappie | | | | catch crappie in a period most anglers are just |
| patrol these areas and unless you have a lot of holes | | | | waiting. And you will catch them on every cast once |
| drilled once they take off chasing their food, you will | | | | you get this dialed in! |