Crappie on the fly

This is my first year fly fishing so everything is still new to me. This Friday will be my first time targeting crappie and any tips on what works or advice on what to throw at em would be greatly appreciated. My buddies will be using conventional gear but it's just not as much of a thrill to me anymore since I've started fly fishing.

I have found that they hit pretty much any fly I've chosen if they are sitting on beds. Pretty aggressive. I was fishing tenkara today and caught some on Kebari style flies.

small yellow head with chhartruese small worm body maybe 1 inch and under an indicator..i tore them up last weekend doing that

I've never caught a crappie on the fly but maybe try some near deere's.

I don't know if you can see the jig but it is a gold head 1/16 oz pink or yellow worm perch and crappie loved it

I know barn doors will kill a clouser. Heck there are times they get in the way of my sandbass. Good way to get fried because who eats sandbass lol

Thanks for all the advice guys!!! I've never done bad on Mineral Wells Lake here in my hometown but this is my first time fly fishing for them. Ill be sure and post if I do any good.

I would fish bright colored wooly buggers below an indicator just out from structure.
That has worked for me for over 40 years.

Clousers get my vote.

Robert I wouldn't mind catching a couple of those this weekend HAHA. Capt. Mac looks like I need to get to tying some clousers this week.

Nice Jerry...Im torturing myself looking at all these pictures while I'm stuck at work

If it helps any I'm at work posting them!

here is a pig robert caught this morning. hey robert what did you catch him on? LOL

2.5lbs

NICE!!

A meal on it's own, thanks for posting.

Yea, what did you catch it on

And Casey her get it right unless he was drinking a whole lot of non lite beer:). She was blood shoot belly ready to pop.

The end of my line hmhmhmhm

Heck that was close to a crappie you could get your fist in its mouth. Oh and hey look up bedded crappie on float and fly videos. Most won't be with a fly rod but jerry's bugger and indicator is the same presentation just with a fly adaptation. If you can isolate an area with bedded crappie set the bugger less then the depth and just slowly drag it back to you through them and it should get engulfed.

2FlyFish4 Nice!!! I'd like to have a few of those to throw in the fryer.

Robert I'll have to check that out...thanks again for all the advice!

These "near deers" can catch anything. Honestly the jigging action of it is fantastic. I've caught alot of crappie/whitebass/hybrids this year on them.

Tied on a 1/64 oz jighead sometimes 1/32

Thanks Dipson I will definitely have to tie some of those up!!! Looks pretty effective to me.

The howling wind wasn't too friendly to my buddies johnboat and kept us from fishing our usual crappie hot spots. However I still was able to put my new fly rod to use and caught a ton of these dudes in a cove that was literally the only place blocking the wind.





Didn't bring home the mess of Crappie I expected to get into but I had a good time anyways

Well I finally got to get out on my home lake in Mineral Wells and chase some Crappie this weekend. Have a little one on the way so the wife has had me busy around the house the past few weeks. Ended up being a super slow day but I ended up being the only guy in the boat to land a crappie (I was also the only guy with a fly rod!). At a little over 13" he was a blast to bring in on my 5 wt.

There should be some good ones in the creeks right now

Nice going. Caught one myself today on a fly - 4 Feather Minnow Fly.

Bob

Robert my buddies and I went all the way up the creek at the lake and had no luck. They were just flat out turned off. Had a kayak tournament going on and everyone I had talked to hadn't landed a single fish. The lake came up from 52% to flooding over the spillway about two weeks ago. Think the water coming up so fast still has the fishing messed up. Water has finally started to clear up though.