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Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. (Caught a few today) #11190282 10/28/15 12:05 AM
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Will crappie still bite when a lake is releasing water?
I have heard both yes and no. What do you think?i

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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11190299 10/28/15 12:13 AM
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Falling water is death.

Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: SheCrappieKilla] #11190400 10/28/15 01:01 AM
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If they have even one gate open on Rc it's real bad fishin.Darrell


Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11190608 10/28/15 02:06 AM
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If you are talking about like at a dam discharge I have done really well at joe pool dam right at the discharge hole I'm talking crappies jumping into oncoming water and slamming a jig!!! It was a lot of fun! I've also had good luck in slack water next to discharge at several areas!!!


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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11191455 10/28/15 03:15 PM
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Have had a couple of great days behind a dam discharging water. Trick is to get enough weight to get your bait down and not too much so you are always hanging up...


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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: SheCrappieKilla] #11191639 10/28/15 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted By: SheCrappieKilla
Falling water is death.

^^^This^^^


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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: The Crappie Guy] #11191812 10/28/15 06:28 PM
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Wait there is 2 different types of fishing .Below the dam and above the dam. Yes the tailrace water is good but the main lake is bad for falling water.Our lakes they don't allow us below the dam.Darrell


Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11192193 10/28/15 09:28 PM
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My experience at NM when they are discharging water - wash your boat, tie jigs, reorganize your tackle box, check all the lights on your boat trailer, air up the tires, check lower unit grease and last but not least, take your wife out to eat and tell her.. "honey I want to be here with you than out on the lake catching crappie"... End of story!!!!


Crappie fishing... what else is there ??

Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Keith Speer] #11192366 10/28/15 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted By: Keith Speer
"honey I want to be here with you than out on the lake catching crappie"... End of story!!!!



If you can't go fishing ... might as well get some mileage out of it. thumb


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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11192436 10/28/15 11:43 PM
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Below the release is good but lakeside not so much, on my lake!


Probing brush for crappie is my game!
Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11192567 10/29/15 12:45 AM
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Jimmy been doing any good on WP? Had 10 keepers today at Herron, Water 68*,getn dirty and current.
Crappie fishn below spillway at our lake is excellant when they are releasing enough water.

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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: dwmoore] #11194377 10/30/15 12:12 AM
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Even though the lake was over 3 feet above normal level and releasing water at 5600cfs, we caught 10 nice crappie and 15 or 16 throwbacks. All on jigs from brush piles 14 to 15 feet deep, any deeper you couldn't even get a bite.

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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: Doyle Holman] #11194440 10/30/15 12:44 AM
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For the first time in my history of crappie fishing (35 years +). we are catching big crappie in the river below the spillways with the gate shut.


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Re: Crappie bite when discharging water from a lake. [Re: one-3lb-er] #11194490 10/30/15 01:00 AM
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At WPL spillway?
Originally Posted By: one-3lb-er
For the first time in my history of crappie fishing (35 years +). we are catching big crappie in the river below the spillways with the gate shut.

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