Cold Crappie

I am not the best crappie fisherman. Quite frankly I just haven't done it enough to get very proficient at it. However recently I learned a lifetime of knowledge on one trip out of Blacks Camp with Kevin Davis. Finding deep water brush piles, and dropping minnows just above these brush piles allowed us to load up the cooler with a fine stringer of slab crappie.

Some guides will say that while they get a lot of business in the spring for crappie fishing the fall and winter is perhaps the best time to catch consistently large fish. If you get a break, find some of the DNR brush piles that are in every lake and their GPS coordinates are on their website (www.dnr.sc.gov) Finding these are relatively easy and they are severely under-fished.

Anchor over them, drop a lively minnow and hang on. Nothing spells action like the crappie bite.

Kevin Davis of Blacks Camp with a fine stringer of Winter Crappie