Crappie Fishing Tips: Find Your Honey Holes
Crappies love to gather around structures, you can properly prepare your own crappie honey hole for fishing.
The key to preparing your own crappie structure is keeping the location a secret. You can sink various structures such as plastics like PVC and brush. Willow tree branches are the easiest brush to sink, while preparing an area where crappies will swarm too all month long. You need long cuttings of about 3 feet in length, while using seven to ten branches with many smaller branches. Use cement blocks to sink any type of artificial structures and branch cuttings. You need something heavy enough to sink your cover directly below where you place it in the water. Having a good anchor keeps the brush from shifting in the water. Use a cement block and a rope of about two feet; tie it to the main branch to sink. Crappies, much like bass enjoy sitting in covers and waiting for food.
Prepare your crappie hole in the fall and in early spring while there is no ice. Prepare crappie cover at three depths for the best results and then mark your locations in shallow, mid-depths and in deep water. You want an area that is not easy to fish. Sink your brush while no one else is watching you. If your cover area is over-fished, the crappie will haul tail and leave for other areas. Search for areas that may not be attractive to casual boating. This is the reason for preparing three locations for different fishing seasons. You should find an area where the bottom is deep and then grows gradually shallower for preparing your three locations in a line up. Mark each of your locations using a GPS point, so you can come back repeatedly and not waste any of your good fishing time. You can get small children interested in fishing by having them along as you prepare your covers. Children may grow impatient, however when visiting a busy honey hole with a lot of biting action, they will learn to love the sport like a pro.
Regardless of the area, this method works well, since crappies enjoy collecting around structures and brush when it is part of their habitat. Before you begin, you should check with the local authorities to find out if you can legally sink such structures for fishing.
After preparing your honey holes, they may produce a good catch for you at least ninety-five percent of the time, which is impressive while taking others out fishing.