The fall in northern Minnesota is amazing! This last weekend water fowl opened up and got two quick woodies. (the fog made it tough shooting) Then went out and searched for crappies with the girlfriend. The crappies were already transitioning over deep water. We scanned holes and didn’t fish until we marked fish on the Huminbird 859cihd combo. once we found the fish we anchored up. The fish were in 25FOW anywhere from 5 feet down to the bottom. We dropped 1/8 oz jigs and minnows over and started slayin one after another. I bet we caught 35 in that hour span we kept 14 and let the biggest 11.5 go.
Fall crappies are very underrated. However they are tough to fish. You need a good graph its not like walleyes were you can drop it to the bottom and real up a foot and catch fish. The Huminbird allows you to watch your jig along with the fish which makes all the difference. Now in the attempt to make this type of fishing easier for my girlfriend I ended up making it easier for me as well. I brought a Ice rod and my Vexilar into the boat. The ice rod helped because with the Huminbird you have to be dropping your jig into the right spot to be able to see it and it was able to keep it close to the boat in that spot. The vexilar helped her and me in obvious ways. The next time I go out I am leaving the 5’6″ light summer rods at home and going to bring 4 ultra light and light winter rods. They made all the difference in detecting the bite and keeping your jig where you can see it.
Also now when we caught these crappies we noticed that some of them weren’t fighting all that hard then we would get them up after taking our time with them they would lay on the surface then after a minute or so they would finally swim off. We also took our time with them while we fought them and they would still do that. Also they had slime on them like a pike. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this before.
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