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crappiepappy
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.
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