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Look up double crappie down rig. You can do it either with jigs, minnows or one of each. I prefer jigs. Last time I tried, and it was last Friday, here's what I used. I put a 1/2 oz. bullet weight on my line. I then put a bobber stop on (the rubber kind, like for flipping) and then tied a jig on. So it was basically a C-rig with a jig. I moved the bobber stop up about 1' above the jig. I did this on 2 rods and slow trolled (paddled very slowly). Getting hung up is just part of the game with crappie. I can tell you though that crappie are not usually "in" the brush as much as around it. I think the brush attracts minnows, which attracts crappie, which attracts fishermen. But crappie can often be caught away from brush, either close to bottom or suspended. If you have electronics you can spot the schools. If not, you can just slow troll down rigs until you find the fish. They're usually near the bottom. So dropping down to the bottom and reeling up a few turns of the handle is a good idea. You can raise them more if you get no bites, but know the fish are there. I've been told crappie will rise to get a bait but won't dive for one. Not sure if that's true.

As you wish.

I already did it with two, with the butts tucked under the stadium seat. It's not hard to paddle because trolling for crappie is a low speed affair. I used a C-rig with a 1/2 oz. bullet weight above a 1/16th oz. jig. That kept the line mostly vertical. I dropped to the bottom, then reeled up 3 turns of the crank. Then I just slowly paddled. The cool thing about down rigs is, if you get a fish, you can easily go right back over that spot. But if you're pulling lines you have to keep moving. I plan on something like this. But I wanted to know if anyone had experience with it.

I think I can find a solution off the shelf.

I do have tracks each side.

My buddy is an accomplished crappie fisherman. I asked him for some advice and went 'trolling" down rigs with jigs on Saturday. I basically paddeled very slowly with what amounts to a C-rig with 1/2 oz. bullet weight and a 1/16 oz. jig on 2 rods. I caught 16 and kept 12. So now I'm thinking I'd like about 4 rod holders that fit into the tracks on my Perception Pescador Pro kayak. Any recommendations would be appreciated. I'll use spinning combos for this. Thanks.

It's in the shop right now. But I suspect the distributor is aftermarket. At lease the cap is. The tach is the original one in the dash.

The last time I mentioned a YouTube channel the post disappeared in 3 minutes. Not complaining, mind you. It just didn't occur to me it was an infraction.

@galyonj I have yet to do the basic tune up so I hope that does the trick. We'll see.

I bought a 1981 Z28 recently. The in-dash tach reads double what I think the engine is really turning. What could be causing this?

I was fishing one nice late winter day last year and a duck hunter came by me and warned me he was going to be shooting a couple hours. I said "OK" because I knew he wasn't likely to shoot anything there. I rarely see more than a couple ducks of any variety and he had no decoys out. It was also too nice of a day. It was quiet the next couple hours and he motored back to the landing. It's an electric-only lake, BTW.

That made my day. Thanks.

More painful than scary, but watching a $30 bait sink when I broke the line the first time I used it.

Whenever I'm using a superline hook or a jig I set it as hard as I can. Good hook, 30# braid, cross their eyes. But when I get a bite on a liplesss crank I hardly set it at all.

That's the cool part about the big ones that get away. They're always bass and they were always a potential PB.

I don't disagree with any of this. I would show anyone who was fishing with me or I knew would be receptive. But we live in an age where people will shoot you because you changed lanes in front of them.

Meh, SC is OK. The state record is over 16 lbs. But a bass over 10 is a major trophy. Depending on where you fish, there are lots of bass in the 5-7 lb. class. But you can catch largemouth and smallmouth as well as spots. We have a diverse geography from mountains to ocean.

I had a good winter last year. I don't think I got skunked all winter. I even caught a bass on a Whopper Plopper in February. I caught most of my fish with a blade bait. I also caught decent amount of crappie on it. It was pretty mild and I had a good number of Saturdays with full sun and little to no wind. But you can't count on that. When all else fails, I watch YouTube videos and shop for tackle online.

I'm really good at drinking beer. As for fishing, it's not a technique. I just try hard. I don't get discouraged because I know the big bite will eventually come if I'm doing the right things. I guess one thing I do well is not targeting small bass. But that means fewer bites.

I've always wanted to do this with a shad imitation fly as the dropper. Another method is the Frontrunner in front of a Spook, preferably a baby bass pattern Spook. It looks like the bigger bait is a small bass chasing a small shad.

I tried only braid on every bass rod. It certainly operates fine, but I noticed I'd lose some fish, throwing a treble bait near the boat. I think you can mitigate that by using a slightly less stiff/fast rod. But I don't have 50 rods at my disposal. I kept straight braid on my frog and jig/T-rigs rod. I went back to mono for spinnerbaits, buzzbaits, topwaters, lipless cranks and pretty much any treble lure. I do use braid main line on the spinning combos with a mono leader most of the time. I also like straight braid for blade baits because it's so easy to lose them on stumps and brush. With straight 30# braid, I can almost always get them back even if I have to bend a hook out. I've tried fluoro and I can see its advantages. But I really don't like it and I don't fish deep very often. "Deep" where I fish is about 12-15'.

I was discussing the consumption of fish from waters with a PCB warning with a chemical engineer who worked at my last job. He thought you would have to scoop mud off the lake bottom and eat it to get anywhere near enough to cause damage. I'm not suggesting people pay no attention to them. I don't even eat fish from clean waters much anymore.

Keep an eye on the news. If it reached Cuba, somebody will probably paddle it back to FL.

This. It helps if there is another kind of cover around like vegetation. Double whammy! And it also helps if deeper water is close by. Anywhere I see 2 kinds of vegetation. Weed edges. Around here, weed edges are the dividing line between shallow and deep water.