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basswacka19 · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 217

I'm usually a strict bass fisherman but i saw some crappie fishing videos on youtube and thought it looked like it could be fun. So after doing some research and figuring out that they spawn in water temps around 60 i decided to go take a crack at em.

the first spot i started at was a gravel flat near deep water, saw a few beds and picked one 13'' crappie of a bed right away on a 1/8 oz drop shot with a little minnow profile plastic. Stayed in that area for another 20 min without another bite, so i went to a near by point and found the mother load! there were beds everywhere and fish all over them, I caught about 20 crappies of beds most between 12'' and 13''.

After about an hour of fishing the beds the bite slowed down for a bit, but then i saw a few crappies suspending over deep water were the shallow bedding area sloped into the main lake. I had another rod rigged with a Lucky Craft pointer 68 and started tossing that and they hammered it! in the next hour i probably caught 30 more crappies with a lot of them going 14'', and two 15'', with the biggest one just shy of 16''. I hooked into one crappie that looked freakishly big, but sadly he got off. never thought i'd be so mad about a crappie getting off but this thing was by far the biggest crappie i've ever seen!

before leaving i had to try to get a bass in the boat so i started throwing the drop shot with a 4'' zoom grub and got one decent 3lb+ lmb and had a nice smallie get off.

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PECo · Joined: 06 Oct 2009 Posts: 5203 Location: Avon, CT

Sweet! My black crappie goal for the year is to break 16 inches.
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basswacka19 · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 217

same here peco! I woulda like to do it before they spawned while there really fat but i think that the spawns pretty much over most places but there were still a few really fat ones. check out this 12 incher i got, huge belly!

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DirtyDawg10 · Joined: 27 May 2009 Posts: 2238 Location: Granby, CT

Nice! Some good sized ones. They taste good too Wink

Michael · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 3823 Location: Bridgeport

Great job on the slabs!

Fishin'Fireman · Joined: 15 May 2012 Posts: 122 Location: Simsbury

Nice fishing! Webster is chock full of crappies and real good sized ones.

I went last year and loved it. That lake is full of more species then I've ever seen in any lake around here.

For the day we went last year we caught for species Smallmouth, Largemouth, white perch, yellow perch, brown bullhead, yellow bullhead, pickerel, pike, crappie, and a trout. There's also big land locked salmon in there, and I believe catfish as well.

Hope to head out there again soon.
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basswacka19 · Joined: 05 Jul 2009 Posts: 217