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Baitcasting Gear For Crappie Fishing?

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  • Super User
Sure, why not?

 

 

About 2.5 hours work with a Pointer 100SP resulted in this:

 

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  • Super User

Absolutely! Why NOT?

 

Good on ya, mate!

Awesome :)

Yep, once you find crappie you can land a bunch.

Can you give info on your line, rod power/action, and reel you used? 

 

I've never personally used anything over 6 lb test mono for Crappie.  In my very, very, humble opinion even 6 pound mono is overkill for Crappie.

But that's just me :)

Awesome :)

Yep, once you find crappie you can land a bunch.

Can you give info on your line, rod power/action, and reel you used?

I've never personally used anything over 6 lb test mono for Crappie. In my very, very, humble opinion even 6 pound mono is overkill for Crappie.

But that's just me :)

6lb is perfect as far as I'm concerned. Crappie in NJ can easily be over 2lbs and the state record is in the mid 4's. I knew a local cop when I lived there who caught it in a private lake.

We used to fill the bottom of a canoe when I was a kid at a local private lake with small rapalas and a couple split shot on the line to get a little depth in the spring when they would school up really heavy a couple weeks after ice out.

  • Global Moderator

Awesome :)

Yep, once you find crappie you can land a bunch.

Can you give info on your line, rod power/action, and reel you used? 

 

I've never personally used anything over 6 lb test mono for Crappie.  In my very, very, humble opinion even 6 pound mono is overkill for Crappie.

But that's just me :)

Don't try to catch them on 6lb around here. Better have braid and even the small ones you have to move quick.

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Don't try to catch them on 6lb around here. Better have braid and even the small ones you have to move quick.

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But that's what telescopic long poles are for :)

  • Global Moderator

9' of water under that pile with holed barely big enough to pull a crappie back through and those trees behind it are out to 35-40' of water, I'd love to see someone longpole that stuff  :laugh5:

9' of water under that pile with holed barely big enough to pull a crappie back through and those trees behind it are out to 35-40' of water, I'd love to see someone longpole that stuff  :laugh5:

 

I'm sure some crappie pro's could do it.  Certainly not with 6 lb mono though.

As for me?  Nope I wouldn't even try :) 

  • Super User

That stuff looks like cane pole water!

  • Super User

 

Sure, why not?
 
 
About 2.5 hours work with a Pointer 100SP resulted in this:
 
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Holy fish fry!

  • 4 weeks later...

Nice mess of crappie!

  • Super User

I never go below 6 lb. line.  You never know when you might catch something bigger than a crappie.

 

BTW, nice mess of fish!

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