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MS Crappie Limit Reduced Due to Livescope
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<blockquote data-quote="JRC1" data-source="post: 5925551" data-attributes="member: 21626"><p>I have crappie fished on Ky Lake since the early 90's. It's seems to me that crappie have been harder and harder to catch each year and with each advancement in technology. In the early 90's we would find a creek channel adjacent to a flat and just drift with the wind only using the trolling motor to keep the boat straight. When our success started dwindling with that we invested in a handheld gps and started marking structure and trolling around from one to another. Most days we would boat 20-30 keepers in 5-6 hours of fishing. Seemed like each year our success rate would drop and it became tougher and tougher to catch fish. We invested in a Livescope last year and I have to admit it has not helped our success rate of catching keeper crappie. I have less than 100 hours on the Livescope, but I can drop down on a fish's nose and still can't get them to bite. I have swapped jigs multiple times, tried plastics, tried feather jigs, and also minnows. Also tried crappie nibbles. A couple weeks ago my dad and I were fishing. I was using jigs and he was using a double minnow rig with crappie nibbles. I caught 8 keepers and he only caught 1 as we were moving from one mat to another. All this to say either there are far less crappie in the lake than there use to be, the crappie are much smarter, or we have become much worse fishermen over the last 30 years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JRC1, post: 5925551, member: 21626"] I have crappie fished on Ky Lake since the early 90’s. It’s seems to me that crappie have been harder and harder to catch each year and with each advancement in technology. In the early 90’s we would find a creek channel adjacent to a flat and just drift with the wind only using the trolling motor to keep the boat straight. When our success started dwindling with that we invested in a handheld gps and started marking structure and trolling around from one to another. Most days we would boat 20-30 keepers in 5-6 hours of fishing. Seemed like each year our success rate would drop and it became tougher and tougher to catch fish. We invested in a Livescope last year and I have to admit it has not helped our success rate of catching keeper crappie. I have less than 100 hours on the Livescope, but I can drop down on a fish’s nose and still can’t get them to bite. I have swapped jigs multiple times, tried plastics, tried feather jigs, and also minnows. Also tried crappie nibbles. A couple weeks ago my dad and I were fishing. I was using jigs and he was using a double minnow rig with crappie nibbles. I caught 8 keepers and he only caught 1 as we were moving from one mat to another. All this to say either there are far less crappie in the lake than there use to be, the crappie are much smarter, or we have become much worse fishermen over the last 30 years. [/QUOTE]
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