12-31-2018, 08:38 PM
Narrows, Browning Point, and Cemetery Point have produced for me in the past. For years, I did it without a tent, hunched over a Colman lantern, but it can get VERY cold some nights. -18° F chased me off the ice a couple times. That lantern heats my tiny little tent pretty well, now.
I learned you can use bigger jigs for crappies. Remember they feed upwards. Use glow and try red and green glow, both. They like perch eyes /meat and wax worms best, but sometimes like the little Berkley Alive minnows or glitter Crappie Nibbles. If there are fish around, there will always be some near the bottom, so I just drop it, raise it a few inches, jig, raise, jig, etc, until I'm 3-4 feet off bottom, then drop and repeat. If you have electronics, they may be suspended, it seems.
HOWEVER!!!!!!! Pineview just BARELY froze, so be really, really careful. I personally won't be trying it for at least 3-4 more days, then I'll try it during daylight hours. BE CAREFUL! It''s been a weird year.
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I learned you can use bigger jigs for crappies. Remember they feed upwards. Use glow and try red and green glow, both. They like perch eyes /meat and wax worms best, but sometimes like the little Berkley Alive minnows or glitter Crappie Nibbles. If there are fish around, there will always be some near the bottom, so I just drop it, raise it a few inches, jig, raise, jig, etc, until I'm 3-4 feet off bottom, then drop and repeat. If you have electronics, they may be suspended, it seems.
HOWEVER!!!!!!! Pineview just BARELY froze, so be really, really careful. I personally won't be trying it for at least 3-4 more days, then I'll try it during daylight hours. BE CAREFUL! It''s been a weird year.
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