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no-see-um
11-04-2009, 07:34 PM
Ok so i was just messing around with my flypole aka practicing and i caught 3 crappie on just a simple fly... so my question is do people flyfish for crappie?
arkansasbasser
11-06-2009, 02:06 AM
You do. And so does this guy.
http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=251536&highlight=flyfish+crappie
FelonFinder
11-09-2009, 09:18 AM
So my buddy and I are jigging for crappie in NE Texas, and I say to him, "Ever see a crappie take something off the surface?". He says "No, never have." About two minutes goes by, and this big old hen crappie comes flying OUT of the water, just about splashes us, and disappears. The moral is flies will work, but get them off the surface and down to where the fish are. Because it's really unusual for crappie to take to the surface, but on rare occasion they do misbehave.
soonerwolf
11-09-2009, 09:42 AM
I used to catch them on top with a little topwater bait sometimes in a little farm pond I used to fish. it was kind of funny seeing them come up and mouth at it compared to a bass coming up and smacking it.
FelonFinder
11-14-2009, 08:57 AM
The other thing about a fly pole or any extra long rod, such as a cane or bamboo pole, is that they are very useful for reaching your lures into places you can't cast, and don't dare take the boat into. Lower the bait to the crappie, when he takes it, just lift him up out of the water. Even better if your buddy can take it off the pole for you, since the pole will probably be 9 feet long or so.
Mini flyrod poppers work great you can get bass, crappie and bluegill along with a wayward trout at times, the old sportsmans had a box of 4 for 2 bucks, put em behind a spincast bubble float for the grand kids tipped with some nightcrawler the boys love the topwater strikes.
gordy
11-19-2009, 07:20 AM
Thousands of crappie have bent my one-wt. Orvis over the years. A super tiny popper, as mentioned above works wonders.
Crappie are fish eaters so a streamer fly worked ontop the surface is good too. Keep your tippet greased to keep the bug ontop.
This is a summers evening technique which works best in the last couple hours of daylight and in the dark shadows of bank cover.
some ultra small topwater pllugs (mostly Japanese and very spendy) are on the market now. Some of them are one third the size of the smallest Rappala you own. Ultra light spin stick on 4 lb test and you may catch every species of fish in the lake....
Makes me wish it were August again...
Bassinator
11-19-2009, 09:45 AM
Blue gill are so much fun on flyrods. I spent a whole weekend doing that and I couldn't stop! Plus I caught some really big ones too.
Thousands of crappie have bent my one-wt. Orvis over the years. A super tiny popper, as mentioned above works wonders.
Crappie are fish eaters so a streamer fly worked ontop the surface is good too. Keep your tippet greased to keep the bug ontop.
This is a summers evening technique which works best in the last couple hours of daylight and in the dark shadows of bank cover.
some ultra small topwater pllugs (mostly Japanese and very spendy) are on the market now. Some of them are one third the size of the smallest Rappala you own. Ultra light spin stick on 4 lb test and you may catch every species of fish in the lake....
Makes me wish it were August again...
Yep, put a dent in the plastic last year and it was worth it for the mini gear. Even got some small micro plastics,can you say mini senco wacky rigged on a floating tippet. Hope to see ya on the water sometime, great to meet other fisherman that think outside the box.