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The Ultimate Crappie Guide

By John Neporandy, Jr.

Jul 19, 2006

Check out how to fish each type of cover:
1. Weeds
2. Timber
3. Brush

Plus, America's best Crappie Lakes:
1. Grenada Lake, MS
2. Kentucky Lake, KY and TN
3. Lake Eufaula, OK
4. Logan Martin Lake, AL
5. Weiss Lake, AL

WEEDS

Spring: Tim Gibson finds crappies staging or spawning in the milfoil at Patoka Lake. He favors 2- to 3-inch curlytail grubs on a 1⁄16-ounce jighead and 4-pound-test line. He hops the jigs with an erratic retrieve over the tops of the weeds.

"In Louisiana crappies are never in the weeds except during the spawn," says Richard Lindsey, who likes a 1⁄64- or 1⁄32-ounce hair jig fished 11⁄2 to 2 feet under a bobber. He casts the rig along weed edges or into pockets of water hyacinths and pops the cork during his retrieve.

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