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SLIDE THROUGH THE WATER FOR COOL WATER SLAB CRAPPIE

By P.J. Pahygiannis

How would you like to catch crappie weighing two pounds or more this fall? How would you like to pull slab crappie out of that nasty cover on your home waters?

Jackie Melton, owner of Arkansas Jigs (www.arkansasjigsbyjack.webs.com), says fall is the perfect time to catch slab crappie from heavy shoreline cover on lakes and rivers.

“When fishing rivers, the blackberry, grapevines and root wads vary from about one to 10 feet deep,” Melton said. “They are usually in and around eddy pockets or slack water just out of the current. The vines hang on the tree as it falls into the water. It makes a hiding place for baitfish and draws the crappie,”

Kentucky Lake crappie guide and founder of the Legends of the Outdoors National Hall of Fame, Gary Mason has been throwing Charlie Brewer Crappie Slider Grubs on Kentucky Lake for slab crappie more than twenty years.

“Stake beds and brush piles are some of the tightest cover I consistently fish the Slider Grub in. However, I have fished this bait around logs and floating debris during high water here on Kentucky Lake."