Grapevine Help

Most of my life I’ve fished for Bass on lakes all over Texas. At the beginning of the year my dad and I said lets fish just one lake and know that one lake very very well. I live in HEB so all this year we have fished Grapevine. Now I can go to Grapevine and catch almost every fish from bass to catfish in good number except crappy . So any little tips would be great. We are going fishing next week so I hope to post some photos of nice slabs

Look from 10 to 20ft for any type of structure you should find some. Be shure to post the pics.
GoodLuck
CrappieMaster

Try to fish as slow possibly possible. I know it sounds crazy but sometimes holding your jig dead still will intice the best bites. And lots of times after you catch one you trick a couple others to bite also.

Ya I think that’s what we’re doing wrong I’m not very good at slow presentations. Most of the time I think if it’s not moving they wont hit it. THANKS for the tips.

So do I just zigzag in a cove or area looking for something??

Hope this helps

http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubbt...BP_#Post2431808

I'll narrow down your search from 14' to 18' of water. Does that help?

How about check out every major drop off? That's a little closer. If you have a Navionics chip, you can look for major depth changes in short distances.

Major creek channels (in some locations) have stuff on the sides of them. But there are a bunch of creeks leading in to coves. That could take you months - unless you have an SI. But if you had that, you may not be asking. :p

Points? Yep...good rocky points that have a sudden depth change on them.

That might help a little bit more.

There are two locations off the top of my head that are completely natural occurrences in the lake and they both hold fish. That's just off the top of my head. Both of them are rocky points/ledges with sudden depth changes. That depth change may even be between 14' and 18' deep.

Good luck.

Yea but you better be carfull around those points because they come up pretty fast and it's nothing but rock. Get some marker bouys and watch your sonor throw out a marker anytime you see anything worth fishing. Drop a jig down use crappie nibbles and you should catch some fish. If that doesn't work out give me a call and I'll see what I can do.
GoodLuck
CrappieMaster

I can keep going. Try Rockledge Park.

Sounds like a Name that Tune.

fur sure those fish will nose your bait but dont give up swim your bait in a slow siode action gradually pulling your bait away from them and stop theyll pick-up on it! This method is a good way to turn a bunch of sniffer crappie into bitters!

"CrappieDale"

Good Luck!

Keep going Jeff.
CrappieMaster

Thanks for all the help guys. I'm going tomorrow morning so I hope to have some nice slabs to showoff.

Sweet! Let us know how you do!

Okay we went out this morning just for crappy. Hit some points only sand bass so we went back in a cove hit every stump. Gosh darn we were going to get one crappy before we had to leave. Then we got in to some small one cool I was just happy to land some crappy. Than we did some moving around we had 4 minnows it was 10:30 and dad said lets try that stump over there to see what it looks like. As soon as we go there 2 fish on ( O ya ) 14 inches. Than 2 more one was 11 inch the other was 10. All in all I thank we got about 13 fish 4 keeper. Good day. Thank all of yall for your help. Soon I will master the crappy.

Congrats on locating the crappie and landing those nice ones!!

Yes you will!

Awesome Chris! How deep were you fishing?

21 feet

Nice!

I have to go meet with a builder at 1:00 today to see if he will give me all his listing. When I get the time I need to put the photos up. Wish me luck.

Good luck!

O ya i Got the builder 40 new listings, any one want to buy a house.