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How To Haul In Monster Crappie On Reel Foot Lake

Reelfoot Lake is a natural lake that is incenter of the lake or just at the mouth of
northern Tennessee and more specifically inthe coves. On other lakes in the late winter
Fulton county. It was once the onlyor early spring I have had great luck fishing
commercially fished lake for crappie. Withright were the plant life begins in the cove.
this said it would might be easy to find aBait fish will go where they can find food
decent crappie in the lake's various covesand plant life is often a good indicator of
and other holes. This particular lake looksthat  food.
like a reservoir for good reason. It is
suggested in the annals of history that theOnce spring has set in, late April or early
Mississippi river flowed backwards after anMay, you should start to move your crappie
earthquake to fill this shallow valley withfishing to the shores where the water
water. Regardless of how the lake was formedtemperatures are about 60 degrees. Crappie
we know that it is a great source forwill spawn between 60 and 65 degrees
crappie.depending on the weather and some other
variables. No matter when they spawn it
The best crappie fishing will be found inmeans good bites for you. Spawning requires
late April or early May. With that said letlots of energy and there is also a self
me focus on the other times of the year firstpreservation aspect here. If your bait looks
and  save  the  best  for  last.like it might eat the young crappie it has a
really  good  chance  of  being  ate.
Let us start with late winter and early
spring on Reelfoot, this is a shallow lake,During spawning times use a small jig. There
at most 18 foot deep, and these deep areasis no need to use live bait at this time of
are where the crappie are going to spend theyear as they will eat almost anything. I
winter. To fish these waters during thiswould avoid brightly colored jigs as they
time of year it is important to know what theseem to be unnatural and I just have never
temperature of the water is. For crappie 50had good luck with them during spawning.
degrees seems to be a magic number, warmerBasic rule for the spring crappie is just
temperatures and they are super active andpractice  moderation  and  only  take  a few.
colder they turn into a couch potatoes. Use
large jigs or minnows during these colderSpring is over and the spawning is done so
times. Most of this lake is a shallow lakethe Crappie are getting picky about what they
so look for the ledges. I know that theseeat. In these shallow waters what you
really don't exist on this lake but you canpresent may not be as important as where you
always hope. The whole trick is to followpresent it. As summer sets in and the waters
the bait fish but knowing that some of thebegin to warm expect crappie to be hanging
edges or coves might have warmer watersout in the colder waters and this means
during the day the bait fish are looking fordeeper waters. Lakes shaped like this seem
a  constant  temperature.to age and fill in from the center so the
mouths of the coves have slightly deeper
Before the spring spawning try to catch theareas.
crappie in the deeper waters so stick to the



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