Does anyone else fish for crappie from their kayak? I fish both fly gear and conventional for these morsels and have done quite well in the past. Anyone else?

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you can pull up under anything

Recently bought a Lund. The new plan is to tow or stow my yak to the happy hunting grounds and go between stuff no boat can fit in.

that should be absurd

I kill crappie in my yak

I had myself all talked into it..then work raised it's ugly head. Yuk.

water is low, now is the time to mark some hidden debris

Should be great from a Kayak. I usually fish the bridges first and then the brush piles.

I do - in fact I am taking my daughter out again on Lake Alan Henry Wednesday in my tandum. Bass by day - crappie by night

Don

That's what I started out with until I got a new boat this year. For a couple of years, I went every where with it. I got 3rd and big fish a couple years ago in BFC tournament on Cedar Creek fishing out of a kayak. A kayak allow you to sit so low near the water and make it easier to shoot docks. It's a good alternative to get around the lake with if you don't have a boat.

Yegua creek December 6th. Caught these and many more just like them between noon and 2 pm with the fly rod and flys that I made myself.

That's a great catch, Crappie on the Fly from the Yak! very cool

What fly were you using?

Here's what I should have been using The JigFly



The truth is that I got out of my kayak and fished from the bank because it's a rare opportunity on the Yegua to find the fish stacked up and accessable for fly fishing.. there's just to many darn trees!

Many times I use my kayak to get to the fish but once there given the chance I'll fish standing upright on the bank or wading.

All the crappie were caught using a varity of #6 to #10 streamers or beadhead woolys, mostly in olive. When the crappie are stacked up like they were on Wednesday it really doesn't matter what you use as long as it imitates something to eat to the crappie and will sink to the correct level. If I didn't let it sink long enough I would not catch anything.

Several times I would catch a fish, cast the fly back out, put the rod down and then let it sink while I put the fish on the stringer. I repeated this process several times one fish after another.. It was fun and these were some pretty big crappie especially being that every one was male. The females are the ones that get really big but they have not moved into the creeks yet... as far as I can tell...

Great day to be outside.. made it back to my spot on the Yegua by noon and fished it until three. No reason to move around much the fish were stacked up pretty much in the same general area but were harder to catch then last Wednesday. I kept 14 and missed or released maybe 8 more. All good fish, all male like before (or maybe female without eggs yet ???).

Very nice pics ...kinda miss those days fishing from a kayak. What I don't miss is having to paddle with a stringer full of Crappie.