Quote Originally Posted by robertdilbert View Post
I posted up on FB asking about crappie fishing tips. I was told, Taylorsville, Wilgreen and Cedar Creek are all good local spots to go after them. One tip I got was to use a Bandit 300 and troll my kayak at 1.2mph.

If I go to Taylorsville and troll, should I just stick to the shoreline? Any specific ramps with better luck? Is it better up by the salt river or out on the main lake? I feel like if I troll at Wilgreen I can cover the whole lake, but Taylorsville is huge.

Any other techniques to locate them? I would assume like bass they are by cover and laydowns. If I move up to a laydown, do I just cast out to it and retrieve back?

Any other techniques for lures? I am not super excited about trolling all day, I am more of a cast/retrieve guy. I like the feel of a hit on my line.

Thanks for the help!
Can't tell you anything about Wilgreen or Cedar Creek ... but the Taylorsville Crappie are hanging around standing timber at about 15-20ft deep. They will hit a jig, but like a jig/minnow a little better. My last trip out I only caught 3 keepers (11" fish) out of around 25 fish caught in total. Got lots of hits, but not more than 25% hookups. A lot of those hits "could" have been Bluegill, but even they were only tapping it once .... not the machinegun taps usually associated with their kind.

Not every stickup had fish, and those that did had branches at or around the 15-20ft depths. Only way I've been able to find those trees with fish is by using Livescope. Water temp was 68-70deg & lake clarity was normal. Wind & boat waves made it mandatory to tie off to a nearby tree & cast to the tree with fish. I did see a couple of other boats catching Crappie ... one was casting slipfloat/minnow rigs around the standing timber, while the other was slow trolling double minnow rigs out in open water.