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 WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 06:54 PM
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I found out an interesting thing yesterday. I decided to go do a little night fishing on stillhouse lake, and took abt 2 dozen minnows out of my fish aquarium inside my house. when we returned, we put the unused minnows back into the tank. right away we noticed that the minnows that had been in the cold dark lake water were much lighter than the minnows in the warm fish aquarium., the minnows that we dumped in that had been in the lake earlier, were a pinkish, shrimp color, and stood out with great contrast amongst the minnows that had been in there all week. So I believe that the coldfront causes the minnows to turn almost pink, and the crappie instinctively know this, and attack pink jigs more.
COMING SOON! .. THE STICKLE HOOK " the stay level sickle hook". sits level in the water with all knots.! Provides better hook sets and more natural jigging motion. No more adjusting the knot, gluing , or tying loop knots that cause the hook point to tangle in the loop, or worse knick the line.. The jighook that will make all others obsolete !
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 06:59 PM
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HUMM, interesting observation.
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:04 PM
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TreeBass
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HUMM, interesting observation. x2 Shouda called 
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:07 PM
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flounder
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Where they female crappie and was it Valentine's day?  Sorry, good observation. I have a lot of pink jigs I normally don't use. I'll give this a shot.
Michael 
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:17 PM
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Huntin & Fishin
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I found out an interesting thing yesterday. I decided to go do a little night fishing on stillhouse lake, and took abt 2 dozen minnows out of my fish aquarium inside my house. when we returned, we put the unused minnows back into the tank. right away we noticed that the minnows that had been in the cold dark lake water were much lighter than the minnows in the warm fish aquarium., the minnows that we dumped in that had been in the lake earlier, were a pinkish, shrimp color, and stood out with great contrast amongst the minnows that had been in there all week. So I believe that the coldfront causes the minnows to turn almost pink, and the crappie instinctively know this, and attack pink jigs more. Wow!!!!!!! That is exactly what I experienced last Sunday with Lanes Pink & Chartreuse Thump Buddy. Your observations have confirmed my thoughts. Great info.
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:25 PM
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Doesn't matter how old you are...you can still learn something new everyday...Thanks leaning post...great info...I guess I need an aquarium...let the fish tell me what I need to know.... 
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:37 PM
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Where they female crappie and was it Valentine's day? Sorry, good observation. I have a lot of pink jigs I normally don't use. I'll give this a shot.  That's FUNNY!!!
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 07:50 PM
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Very interesting
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 08:43 PM
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. it took abt a half hour for them to get back to their darker color once I put them back into the tank.
COMING SOON! .. THE STICKLE HOOK " the stay level sickle hook". sits level in the water with all knots.! Provides better hook sets and more natural jigging motion. No more adjusting the knot, gluing , or tying loop knots that cause the hook point to tangle in the loop, or worse knick the line.. The jighook that will make all others obsolete !
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/15/13 08:45 PM
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HUMM, interesting observation. x2 Shouda called they werent biting, we must have watched a thousand fish swim by, on the bird, and didnt get bit. waves of shad and whites just back and forth in the creek channel.
COMING SOON! .. THE STICKLE HOOK " the stay level sickle hook". sits level in the water with all knots.! Provides better hook sets and more natural jigging motion. No more adjusting the knot, gluing , or tying loop knots that cause the hook point to tangle in the loop, or worse knick the line.. The jighook that will make all others obsolete !
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/16/13 02:46 AM
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Thanks for the information I use pink buthadnt thought about it much now I know why I catch them on cold front better on pink thanks
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/16/13 04:42 AM
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HHmmm now that I think about it the only times ive done great with pink is in cold and dark water. I think you're on to something!
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/16/13 04:50 AM
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HUMM, interesting observation. x2 Shouda called they werent biting, we must have watched a thousand fish swim by, on the bird, and didnt get bit. waves of shad and whites just back and forth in the creek channel. Fishin is fishin
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Re: WHY crappielike pink when coldfronts hit?
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02/16/13 04:51 AM
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I think I am going to try some pink tomorrow...gonna be fairly cold, both in the water and above it.... 
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