Ilove catching crappies. Most of my crappie fishing comes in spring and summer. During spring, nothing beats watching a slip bobber slowly descend when a hungry shallow water slab inhales a small jig. During summer, I love the “tick” I feel and the impending hookset when slowly retrieving a Mr. Crappie plastic along a weedline. This fall, however, I “stumbled” upon some big crappies and have had lots of fun. Here is what I have been doing.

I was on a local lake, a small, shallow lake with a maximum water depth of 25 feet, fishing for walleyes. When moving to a new spot, I “saw” on a sonar screen several small pods of fish, maybe four to eight fish, suspended in 12 to 16 feet of water. Thinking they were crappies, but not having my crappie “stuff” with I improvised by placing a portion of

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