On 11/4/2018 at 8:54 PM, JustJames said:

My first crappies of Canyon Lake ????, using lure above with bobber about 2' down. I know it not big only 10" but I hope more to come.

Congratulations on catching your first crappie from land. I have a feeling you will catch some nice ones in that lake.

18 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I do this often but they never bite the cast, only the troll

Then most likely they are suspended and you are not retrieving your casts in the right depth.  I could set the depth of my troll by the TM speed and line size, if I slowed down the crappie jig would go deeper, if I sped up it was higher in the water column.  That always gave me a rough idea how deep they were.  I would adjust my casting retrieve speed to match the depth.  But you are right, some days it was easier to just put 2 rods out the back on rod holders and troll up a limit.  

My biggest problem crappie fishing is that the small bass tend to go after the bait.  I probably catch 10 six inch bass for every crappie.

in spring i love taking a small original rapala or small rebel. twitching it just under the surfcae or one top, they hammer it! i love watching them hit a topwater. 

Another good and bad day today caught two small crappies and missed a lot of bites. There were a lot of activities of shads which should be good, the bad thing was the float and stick light I prepared didn't work. The float was too small and sinked, the stick light didn't work either and by the time the bite get hot, then this guy played with his remote control boat (the one that pretty big, very fast and make lot of noise) pretty close to where I fish.

At least I know where they are now.