Reply With QuoteSorry to tell you all this but Derby General Store has been closed down for over a month. The community is hoping to get a co-op type store up and going in the future.
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You can buy minnows at the derby gas station/general store if want. They run a little big but the woman there is generous with her count. I have caught them fine on the larger onesOriginally Posted by AaronS
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Sorry to tell you all this but Derby General Store has been closed down for over a month. The community is hoping to get a co-op type store up and going in the future.
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Well that stinks for the community. When we were down a few weeks ago it looked like the restaurant was doing well. Quite a crowd there.
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It would appear the old saying "wind from the east, fish bite the least" is true! We didn't get ONE SINGLE bite! We still had a great time though. The weather was beautiful, we got to explore new water, enjoy some beautiful country, and spend some quality time together! After exploring Oil Creek for a while we decided to go for a joy ride. We boated down to Cloverport, KY and back and just loved the scenery.
Pic 1: Angelo on the Ohio
Pic 2: Exploring Oil Creek (I lost count of how many stick-ups we "found" with the boat)
Pic 3: Our first time boating on the river
Pic 4: Thankfully no rain while we were out
Pic 5: We ordered food to go at the restaurant in Derby and enjoyed it at Mulzer Park. The moon was gorgeous over the water. Here's my beautiful wife and Angelo.
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I love to fish for crappie with jigs. Under a slip bobber or just casting them out and letting them fall to the right depth before very slowly reeling them back to the boat. Also tight lining a jig or two with a long or short graphite ultra sensitive pole. I use 7 ' long and 10' long graphite jig poles from B &M company. Just tie a loop knot at the end of the line and leave about 18" long tag line for a drop shot weight. I like the Finesse Weights from Bass Pro Shops.
The White Lightning SQUIRMIN SQUIRT jig from Bass Pro Shops is a true winner. It was used to win the Crappie USA spring Tournament at Patoka Lake a few years back. Two years in a row it won the tournament. Fish it under a slip float and like Toomanycasts said if you see the float seem to life up and or fall over set the hook gently but quickly with a steady pull on the rod as the crappie has just sucked that jig into it's mouth and in the process took the weight of the line and make the jig pop up or tip over. Crappie tend to feed upward and they take in the jig which lesses the weight pulling down on the float. If you just wait for the jig to get pulled down by the fish then you might miss a lot of fish. I wish I had known this trick many years ago.
I use the Twill type bobber stops which is basically a nail knot tired around s short plastic hollow tube were the line goes though the inside of the hollow tube and the nail knot slips off the tube and onto the light. Slide the knot onto the mono fishing line and set the depth of your jig. Tighten up the nail knot ( usually made of bead thread material) and clip off the tag ends on the nail knot material to help the slip knot pass through the rods guides easier.
With a light weight spinning outfit I can fling a 1/16 oz lead head jib and tube pretty far out with the slip bobber on the line. The jig will pull the line though the hole in the bobber and the nail know with a red bed also slipped on the line will let the jig fall down to the set depth. Start up near the surface and adjust your depth deeper until you find the fish. Cast out beyond the stump and slowly reel the bobber and jib combo back though the fishing zone.
One more very important tip for fishing for crappie with jigs. Berkley Crappie Nibbles .... Don't leave home without them. They truly make a huge difference in the catch rate for crappie. Let them dry out a bit before putting them on the hook. Some guys mix the crappie jigs up in a jar and make a paste out of them. The come looking like tiny marshmellows. The put them into a big syringe and inject them into the hollow part of the tube body. The scent will come out of the hollow tube and fill the water with fish attractant smell that stimulate the crappie to bite. One of the largest parts of the fish's brain is devoted to SCENT.
If the crappie are hitting jigs you can catch a lot of fish very fast if you find a big school of crappie. I once caught 45 crappie in under 30 minutes using this method. Most were small but it was still fun. I did catch a limit of keepers that day and the rest were thrown back into the lake. It was along the edge of a shallow flat covered with mill foil vegetation. The vegetation stopped growing at around 7 to 9 ' deep due to lack of sunlight due to colored water. The shelf dropped off in a stair step fashion in this area but was very close to the deeper waters of the lake. It went from 3 or 4 ft down to 7' then to 10 ft and then down to 25ft and then all the way down to 50 ft in about the distance of 30 yards. This spot has produced some nice fish on the lake I fish. I've caught largemouth bass here as well. They are not there all the time as they like to suspend out over the deeper water at about 20 to 25 ft in 50 ft deep water. I've trolled crank baits though the deeper areas and caught some nice bass out there during the heat of the day when the fish suspend out on the drop off areas in the middle of this small lake. I can look at a topo map of this lake and see that I'm catching fish down at 20 ft over 50 ft of water right where the lake bottom drops off from 25 ft to 50 ft. It's like this in other similar areas of the lake in the hot summer months. In the fall the crappie follow the shad back into the shallows. Creeks feeding the Ohio River are a magnet for big river crappie. They too follow the shad back into the cooler water of the creeks.
In summer
1/16 or 3/32 to lead head jigs (Chartruse painted heads are good with big eyes painted on them make them even better.
Comar Tackle Company Inc Stock #C150RW Small foam floats from Walmart. They come in a bag with 5 floats. They are made out of Styrofoam and have a small red plastic piece stuck into the top hole for plugging the float on the line if you don't use a slip float. I don't use the red piece of plastic stick device but I save them anyway.. Cheap and easy to use. Or the Trill slip floats with the brass ring around the hole works great too. The trill floats cost more and are more buoyant and you may need a heavier jig to get them to sit up straight in the water and not fall over or go too deep. The Comar Tackle Foam floats are very light weight and easily pop up out of the water with the fish take the jig in it's mouth. They are just more sensitive than the thrill. On the other hand the line can get stuck in the Foam floats and prevent the jig from pulling the line down though the hole in the float to the bobber stop. IE the jig tends to get stuck right under the float. The line can cut a crease in the top hole in the foam float and that where the line gets stuck and won't let the fishing line slide down though the hole in the foam float. The brass ring on the top of the Thill slip floats prevents this from happening. Both floats will do the job equally well. I have both in my tackle BOXES.
I will take the crappie nibbles out of the bottle and put them inside an old jar lid of a used up crappie nibble container. I glued some Velcro to the top of the lid and then some other Velcro to a spot on the floor at the front of my boat. That way I can take out fresh crappie nibbles and put them in the old lid and set them down on the deck in front of me to let the sun dry them out before using the. They will harden up in a few minutes sitting out in the sunlight. That way they will stay on the hook much better. Just let the skin part of the crappie nibble get hard and the inside will still be soft. They will dissolve slower in the water if you set them in the sun before using them.
Beware all the locals up in Deer Creek, Oil Creek and the other Creeks in Perry County as in the summer months a lot of people like to sit in floats in the creek and drink beer and relax. I'm sure that King31 can attest to how hard they party in PCO. he he.
Just make sure that you test the weight of the jig and tube to make sure that the bobber is the right size to counter the weight of the jig and tube. You want the bobber to be sunk about half way down and not too deep or two shallow. This allows you to detect those bite where the crappie just ***** in the jig and sit there without moving and pulling the bobber away. When the weight is taken off the bobber it will pop up or tip over and that is the time to set the hook. Getting the bobber size and the weight just right in the key to this method. That's why the
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