I Have not Crappie Fished much this year due to all of the high water here in North Carolina. NC has had the most rainfall on record in 2018 and the start of this year has seen lots of rainfall as well.
Most of my spring spots have been way too deep as the high water had the Crappie spawning in different places. Well, the lake I like to fish finally got back down to near normal so I decided to go hit one of my crappie spots. I knew or thought I may not catch a lot as the spawn is over but I figured I could catch a few at this shallow spot. A few it was! I only caught 3 with 2 being small but this Black Crappie would not even fit into the Frabill EZ Crappie checker. The fish measured 15 inches and was THICK. I owe catching this fish to the the best crappie grub out there ( Kalins Acid Rain) and G Sauce from Crappie.com
( see links above to get both ). Not a great day as far as numbers are concerned but I will take a Monster Crappie any day.
Here is the Big one of the day. I am 6'3" with Big Hands
Here are the new scents from Crappie.com I have been using with success.
See links at the top to get them
Make sure to Watch the video to see how I work the Kalin Grub and scent.
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March 9th, 2019
Crappie Fishing with Goldfish
Location- Central North Carolina Creek
Time - 3-5 Pm
Rod- 7' Abu Super7 Med action
Reel - Okuma Stratus SGT30
Line- 10 lb Trilene
Hook- #4 Gold wire hook with a split shot
above and 2' under a cork
^^ The reason for going with the outfit listed above is I wanted a longer length to help control the drift and bigger line than I normally use as there are some nice channel cats in this stream that I thought I may luck into one of those.
I have always fished with goldfish but it has always been while I was fishing for Catfish and those were with big Goldfish. Those big goldfish work fantastic on catfish so I have always thought smaller ones would work great on Crappie. This has been a goal of mine to do this and today I made it happen.
I stopped and my local Pet store and got 20 feeder goldfish for $4.29. I kept these in a minnow bucket aerated with a Baby Bubbles which does a great Job. You can see how awesome they work in the video but I had a hit on all 20 Goldfish! It was a great couple hours on the water and I will be sure to do this again on a nearby lake so stay tuned for that !!
My wife and I along with our Dog Pete Hit a side channel off of the Neuse after some Shad on their spring spawning run. We got there at Aprox 2 and fished until 6 pm. The action was slow but fun as we caught what we were after. The best Lures used were 1/8oz Pink headed Jigs and 2 inch white grubs rigged in tandem. I think I landed 5 which I am Happy with.
Since the water was high from recent rains we were fishing this side creek off of the Neuse River which is also called Village Creek. The High water will send some of the fish up this creek so it is usually a good spot during high flows.
Below on the map this spot is pinned as Shad spot #1. You fish right off of the bridge , just make sure to watch out for traffic as Most of the traffic goes slow when people are fishing but some don't slow down so use this at your own risk. Also, be careful with your casts as there are plenty of trees that will "take" your lures. Today at peak time there was apox 15-20 people fishing off of this bridge.
I would recommend you use at least at least 10 lb line since you are lifting the shad up the bridge but we did "get by" with 6 lb on a couple of rods but we did not catch any big ones today. 6 lb line is not going to lift a good one up.
Here is My dog Pete that loves to fish. My wife snapped this picture after I said "fish on" and he has to see it.
This is a video of this trip. Please watch and enjoy and please subscribe to my You tube channel and follow me on Instagram.
I enjoy anything in the outdoors. Mainly canoeing and fishing but, also hunting, hiking, I love to plant trees and also search for big trees.
I grew up just outside Burlington, N.C. where my parents house sat on a bluff overlooking the Haw River. I can thank the Haw for getting me started in the outdoors. I Have 2 YouTube Channels as well. Mack's Extreme River Fishing and Mack's Public Land Hunting.
Thnaks, Mack