Saturday, June 2, 2012

Landing Huge Crappie Using the Spider Fishing System


I got back into the Spider Fishing this week at Legion Lake in Winona Mississippi, my brother's home lake. This lake is roughly 80 acres super clear and has a lot of slab crappie. We worked around thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday with periods of on and off crappie bites. My brother managed to land the largest crappie ever using the Spider set-up system. When the fish are scattered and the bite is off you need every advantage one can get. The Spider system will give you that edge. It enables you to cover large amounts of water at different depths using different jigs. We found out early on that the best color for the past two days was an orange/chartreuse tube jig tipped with a white or chartreuse nibblet. We were using six 11 ft. jigger poles and two 9 ft. rods which enabled us to cover a lot of water. Numbers were not the winner on this trip but rather quality fish made the difference. As always the food was a winner as well, featuring homemade peach cobbler, chicken pot pie, baked chicken, and of course homemade rolls and cornbread from the local buffet line in the local supermarket.
Working all those jigger poles
The tube jig even landed a large Shellcracker not to mention numbers of bluegills
Bobby with the largest slab of the day a little over 2 lbs--this type of fishing is sooooooo easy it makes you feel sorry for the fish!!

18 comments:

  1. I can go for some crappie fishing. It's been a while and that big sucker makes me hungry, along with the cobbler, chicken pot pie, etc.

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  2. I can see the advantage of using that system, but in California, they only allow you two poles maximum.

    Mark

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  3. Awesome fish, I've seen that spider rigging before on Crappie Masters TV.

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  4. Hi, Bill! Like the others have mentioned, "That is one heck of a Crappie"! I could fish for Crappie that size any day. You are a fortunate angler.

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  5. Howard
    Great food and a great fishing trip on a lake full of crappie--thanks for crappie

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  6. Hi Mel
    Hopy you got moved and enjoying your new surroundings--thanks for the comment

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  7. Devin
    Spider fishing is a fast way to find out if they are biting--thanks for the comment

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  8. Mark
    Lots of crappie here which is the reason the Spider fishing is allowed--thanks for the commnet

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  9. That's one large crappie.
    Well done gents.

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  10. Dang, that is a SLAB, Bill! Cool report!

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  11. Brk
    There are crappie in this lake that is larger, I hope we can land one in the near future. Thanks for the comment

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  12. Ty
    Thanks Ty for the comment, go to love that Spider Fishing--thanks for the comment

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  13. When your crappie are bigger then the bass you have got it down. Nice fish boys!

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  14. Blake
    Now if I could only master that size crappie on my home lake--I am working on it. Thanks for the comment

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  15. Nicely done Bill! The crappie bite has been great for me as well. Wish I could get a nice giant though. So far this year my biggest one has been 11 3/4". Tight lines and happy fishing!

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  16. Brian
    Big crappie is hard to come by, but my brother has landed his share. Thanks for the comment

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