| Crappie fishing falling flood waters. |
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| Written by C.A. Douglas | |
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We live near a flood control lake in Arkansas. It is common each spring to have 15 to 30+ feet of flood water. This means we will have weeks of falling water and as many know falling water can mean tough fishing. This also can mean some good slabs that stage on points of brush as the lake falls. This year we had exceptionally high water and it lasted through the whole spawn making fishing poor. At one point it was over 37 ft higher than normal! We finally got it down to about 10 fi and falling lmost a ft. each day. This put the fish on the normal bank lines of brush for several days. We would fish the brushy points of Willows till finding a school. The fish were tough to trigger a bite till one was caught and then we caught several of an area. The only draw back if you call it that was Bass and Catfish kept hitting our jigs. A good sized one was hard to handle on a Buck's jig pole and 6 lb test line. We had several leave wearing one of our big Umbrella Tube jigs.. My favorite weight jig is 1/8 oz most of the year here. The fish seem to target larger prey in the flood waters. The heavy jig is easir to shake loose when hung in the brush. It also helps keep in contact tightling jigs in cover. Sure is great feeling that thump on a tight line. The main thing is when fishing falling water is to go to the nearest point covered with Brush on the normal bank line. After it falls back in the banks they will follow the creek channels to the nearest brushpile. Just remember falling water is not always bad as it pulls bait fish out to certain spots and Crappie will follow looking for an easy meal.
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