 Woo, tasty crappies baby. Oh yeah y'all, we're gonna be catching some tasty crappies today and showing you some tips. Welcome on back to the channel. Today's video is sponsored by our friends at Mystery Tackle Box. You do not wanna miss out on Mystery Tackle Box, big time holiday savings they got going on, biggest savings of the year. So click the link down below and get you some of that. Get the dangler in your life or maybe even just treat yourself to the latest and greatest tackle wrapped up in a nice beautiful box delivered straight to your door every month. And you can do a crappie pan fish box, maybe go with a standard bass box or an elite box or maybe even you go, you go the, it's whatever you want. The point is they got whatever kind of species you're looking for, bass especially. Speaking of that, I got LFD hooked up probably four years ago. Oh yeah, still getting fishmas in a box every month. I tell you why I like it. 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I cannot stress this enough. Points. Let's go. Here we go. It looked a little scattered, but we're gonna go with it. What's up? Crappie's. Oh yeah, baby. That's a big one. Absolutely choked it. Probably would not survive a release, but why would you? Why would you throw away such a nice crappie? Let's get another slab like that. And we're gonna go through, oh, I just had one. Go through a couple of techniques here. So right now, y'all, I am throwing a eighth ounce spoon and that's a pretty good way to throw out there and then work down. It's not a straight ledge, but basically just this point. And the fall is the time here when a lot of fish start to migrate out to the points. They'll follow creek channels and get on secondary points. They'll go out to main lake points. Even in ponds, they're gonna go towards little points and start to target groups of shad. Behind me, I've got white bass. The largemouth are probably around here somewhere. They're never too far from crappie. Just all these fish are ganging up on shad. Now crappie, they're more prone to just sit still. They get in one area where it's a target-rich environment and they can just kind of sit there and pick things off. They don't like to school around too much, like a white bass or even a spotted bass in some largemouth expend a bunch of energy. They like to get on something that looks really good, a good cover piece and then pick off little minnows and little shad. So this first technique that I'm using right here is called a stair step technique. And I love using spoons in the fall and in the summer and honestly in the winter and they're really awesome too. Because you're able to get to deep water effectively, fast effectively and really get down to those fish. You see fish 20, 30 feet down. Sometimes it can be intimidating on the man, how do I get my lure down there? But a spoon will allow you to do that and get in front of the fish's face pretty quick. Before I caught that big one, I caught two small crappies, one on the spoon and then one using a crappie jig. What I can do with the crappie jig, I can work it down this. It'll be very slow, painful. I could also use a little like a road runner, small spinner bait and work that down. And the last technique is just gonna be getting right on top of them, which is like the normal crappie technique. Second one, come here baby. Oh yeah, that's a keeper. Begin. Begin. Right there in the schnozzle, baby. Beautiful crappie. What about them? These crappie are probably, oh there's one, there we go. Ooh, we got them fired up. This feels like a good one too. This feels like a really good one. Heavy. Really heavy. This is my, oh, this is a bass. This has got to be a bass. That's big. I just backed off my drag, because now it feels like I'm stuck on a log. And that's because we were stuck on a rock. Wow, fold me. Really fold me. Oh, despite my years of dangling experience, you know, funny things still happen like that. Has that ever happened to you? Let me know in the comments down below. LFG was fooled greatly right there. I've been in quite a few scenarios where you get a thump like that and it starts swimming out. And then all of a sudden your rod just loads up and it's a megatron. And you just got to back your drag off and fight them. Oh, there's another one. Okay, we are getting on them now. This feels like a small one. Come on, baby. Yeah, that's a no go. We're in that 15 to 18 zone. My boat's sitting in like 24. I'm getting my bites in that 15 to 18. And then in the winter, you can really start getting them in like 20 to 30, just depending on where you are. All right, we're gonna switch it up to the jig now. So I'm gonna switch from this to this. So same weight. It's just got a small willow blade on the bottom. Really have to watch my line and see when it hits the bottom. When your line hits the bottom, it'll go slack. Really one of the biggest tips I can offer for fall fishing, just get on some points. Any kind of point, it doesn't. I mean, this is a point I don't think I've ever caught any fish off of. And just idling around to different points. Sometimes they'll get on just real random ones. But as long as there's bait around and you've got some sort of point, a fish can get on it. I feel like this oughta get, bam, the oozle's soft out here. Oh, there he is, got him. Oh, bam. Feels very small though. Definitely tagged it on that little slow, gradual drop. What are you gonna bait? I don't know, dude. Drop, he has to be 10 inches. Keep. That's gonna be a nineer. Yup, nine and a halfer, not gonna do it. Usually I don't even keep 10 inches anyways. And if you get five, 12 to 14 inches, tasty. Roll up on this point and see what we got. It's looking like probably some more crappies here. Hugging the bottom. See the shad mixed in with the fish there and then there's a few more. So that is, that's a good sign. I mean, there's not as many as there was. Oh, there they are. A few more, a few more right there, not 15. I've locked into this crappie, trying to fine-tune things and the white bass just came in there. I can't even see anything on the screen for so many of them. So I think I'm gonna do this proper, y'all. I'm gonna come out here in the morning. I'm gonna grab some more ledges and try to learn a little bit more with you guys, because it's important to me, I always like to pass on my knowledge and just see the best way to catch these crappies as they're moving out and if they're in any more jets. So I'm gonna do a little bit more graphing before the sun goes down. Beautiful. But follow me along for another day on the crappie day. We got the hammer crappies. Dang, I almost need a net for him, he's so big. No, he's a whopper man. Good crappie, I better get him with the hands. All right, don't do anything funny, sir. Gotcha boy. There's a hammer. Guys, we got ones in one hammer picked up a nice one throwing the crappie jig. Well, those big ones like that, when they hit it, these, I mean, it's just like a bass. It's pretty awesome. This is gonna be a hammer. I'm telling you, this is gonna be an absolute hammer. A mega. This could actually be a big bass. It's gonna be a giant crappie or it's a bass. And that's all there is to that. Oh, this thing is fun. Big time, this is gonna be a big bass here, dad. No, I'm serious. It's gonna be a big bass. You gonna get that net, cause he's coming. I do not have a car, but I got a crappie jig on. That's where your left foot is. It's okay, I'll lift him. Oh, it's a giant bass. It's a big old bass, is what it is. God, I swear, crappie and bass, it's not that big. It's like a four pounder. It's just on, you know, the light line. See? That's bigger than the four pounder. I told you, I kept getting these little nibbles on that rock and then that one smacked it. Be a nice one for this tournament today, wouldn't it? Oh my God. While you're crappie fishing, that's a four pounder. You wanna put it on the scale? Or we'll put it on the scale again. Oh, I'm sure. What a stud. Sometimes they just are big. There's sometimes they're a little bigger and a little greener when you're crappie fishing. That one is super healthy. I'm gonna say he's a four. You know, I trust your opinion. He's a four one. I have a bad case of net shrinkage. I literally said that's a four pounder. It looks like a four pounder. Oh, that's awesome. It must be my plan. It must be. See you big dog. That's a big crappie, man. You know, that might be one of the biggest crappie I've ever caught. Okay, we're on round two out here with the crappies, brought LFD out. The pattern has stayed the same, very consistent on just about every point we go to that has good deep water behind it. And just found a really good point here that has a brush pop. So this is another example of something that I just told dad, hey, you gotta tie on a crappie jig. Tying on, this is a crappie jig. What kind of knot are you tying there, sir? Masterful knot. I don't know if I like that knot. Come on, it's good. Just about any knot's good for crappie. You've got a small brush pile and you can see some crappie hanging out on both sides of it. You can see that on the pan optics. This is basically right under the boat. What we're gonna do is drop our jigs right here. I'm gonna have dad kind of work that through there. We might be able to actually see it on the pan optics and walk you guys through the technique. It's pretty easy though. Give me coaching. Drop it on this right corner here. Let it go down. Right here? Yep, just let it go straight down. And then it may have you take a step back. There's your crappie jig. It is going down into the tree. All right, stop right there. Now take a few steps back. Yep, yep, I saw him coming up to grab it. Little guy, but saw him come out of that school, guys. It was quick. I pulled off the screen kind of quick, but that was the fish thrown back. But dad loves catching them. Let's do that again. Yeah, let's do that again. You should be able to see it. Here's the jig coming down. Okay, stop it right there. Take a few steps back. Oh, you got one coming up on it. And if they're not biting it on that just straight dangle, I'll just kind of move the rods left and right. And just let it sit. You got him, you got him, you got him. Did you see your line go slack? Yeah, yeah, he thumped it. Yeah, he thumped it. Get him, get him. What is that hook set, dude? That hooked up on the spoon game. Oh, you got him on the jig. Yeah, I got him on the jig. Very nice, nicely done. You need some help with this guy? Yeah, if you don't mind. Bring him over here. Bring that beautiful big choppy mouth over here, dude. And that's how you catch them. Right. That's how you catch them off piles. Piles on points, baby. Hammers. Look at the guy, look at this mouth. What do you think about that? Look inside his mouth. This guy's ready. How hard did he hit that? It's like a bass. It's like a bass, yeah. I thought I was hung on the tree for a second because he took off. Yep. Hammer. What a beautiful fish. That's gonna make a good golden crispy right there. Fish taco's tonight. Y'all, we're just slowly chipping away at a good little crappie sack. We're doing a weekend fish fry with the fam. Dad's saying that might be his PB crappie. I think it is. Absolutely. That's a good one. I don't think that's a one that big. Probably at least 13 inches. We've seen literally rocks, like individual rocks. Slow drops and brush piles, all holding fish on points. A lot of shad out here in the depth. So there's just a ton of forage out here for all fish in the fall on these points. I think we're gonna try one more spot and see if we can rack up just a couple more points, man, points, points, points. How do you mind keep me close? Going to be close. Felt good, first. That's a nineer. Oh, yeah. Oh, got him. Oh, still having. God, I watched that fish thump it. That's a good crappie. Well, sir, that one came on this pile that's right here. Oh, I'm just blacking you. I put you in some spicy seasoning and go full blown Louisiana on you. Woo! Here's a little one. I think this is probably what we're dealing with. He absolutely posed it. I was telling Dad over the last year, I've started to understand more what crappie look like on the electronics. And it's not so much their size as it is how they sit together and group. So you'll just see them like very tightly packed. And you know, if they're around a good piece of cover, not cover being like a tree, you know, some sort of brush pile, a rock and they're tightly packed together. I love that that's a rock. You guys are going to see the pan optics kind of swing around here back and forth, but this is what the crappie group looks like. And you can see how tightly packed together they are. There's something on the bottom that's keeping them there. I think it's like a lay down log, but you can see how high up they go in the water column. And they're just all kind of stacked together like that. Like, you know, a bunch of ants. Why you gotta do that to me, that coming. Hey, thatcher. He's not big, but I think he's going to be our last caper here. Oh yeah. Yeah. He's good to go. Grab his face. There we go. Hey, a point fish. Just having to pluck away at him here. However, if you look at that live well, there are some hammer sausages in there. Maybe one more. All right. I gotta do one more cast. He's right on that log. I told Dan when we pulled up here, I was like, man, there's like at least 20 fish down here. And I want to say we've probably caught at least a dozen. Oh yeah. Maybe 15 off the spot. Only one has been a keeper. And none of them really looked great. I mean, it looked like a small school, but it's fun to get on them and catch them. This is a continuation of yesterday. I got on the crappie fishing late on the points. And today we've focused a little bit more on some actual structured things. Woo! Woo! I'm sorry, some cover things that have been on the structure. And we just, we ran into this group of fish out here and I was telling dad, I was like, there's probably 20 fish down there on this thing. And I think we're getting close to catching 20 now. We've at least caught 15 while I am. Throw that back. But only one has been a keeper on this spot. We got a couple of hogs that we're gonna probably black and fry some of them up. That's the best part about catching these things. Making delicious gold and Krispies. But I hope you guys have learned something today on fishing points in the fall for crappies. I've honestly learned some things. Crappie fishing has been something I've gotten into the last couple years. And I love it. I learn about bass too. I often catch bass while I'm crappie fishing. And you learn a lot of things that you just wouldn't bass fishing because you're just fishing a different way. And I just love it. Plus it's tasty at the end of the day. So thanks you guys for tuning in today. Go ahead and smash that like button for catching a mess. And I'll see y'all on the next one. Grab it.