Crappie Fishing for Winter Giants | 5 Modern Tips

Big crappies pushing the 2-pound mark are trophies not often caught with regularity. This video is aimed squarely at making you a more successful crappie angler. Zeke Anderson of The Bass Tank walks us through how he uses live scanning sonar technology (Garmin LiveScope) to find crappies others have been missing, then delivers refined jig presentations "softly" above their nose to trigger the bite.

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Here's a summary of Johnson's suspended open water winter crappie program:

1. If equipped, use live sonar (LiveScope in this case) to scan open water adjacent to submerged cover like standing timber to determine crappie location relative to the cover.

2. Once you locate fish at a distance, quietly approach using your trolling motor and position close enough so you can drop a bait on them vertically.

3. Watch sonar intently for bites. If crappies are biting extremely light or eating the bait on the fall, you'll often feel nothing, so seeing your bait disappear on LiveScope can function as a bite indicator.

4. Don't "plop" the bait during the initial drop into the water; rather, drop it with a soft entry and drift it naturally above their nose. You spook less fish and catch more.

5.Once you find the crappies experiment broadly with different bait sizes, profiles, and materials (hair, plastics, etc.).
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