Fall Crappie Tips
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Fishing in the fall can be an overlooked prime time for crappie fishing. Mostly because anglers get set in their ways for fishing for these tasty panfish. They either want to only spider rig, vertical jig or fish when the fish are shallow and easy to get at. Likewise anglers seem to get set on certain colors. And that’s generally because a color has produced numerous crappie for them. But when that color quits producing they seem to go opposite spectrum on colors and never really figure out what happened to the color that had been working.
That was the case for me for a long time. I’m one of those guys who grew up with a father who often quipped that any color was good for bass fishing as long as it was grape with firetail. So for me color was not really a big deal. Now some 40 years later it was still hard to convince me that color really made that big a difference. Honestly crappie fishing is where I have learned more about color preference than probably any other type of fishing I do. Although I do still have a lot of that “any color is good as long as it has chartreuse when crappie fishing” in me.