 Just for reference this board is 12 inches wide and they're Through the channel everybody we are doing some crappie dangling today. I am in the middle of the country right now I'm up here in Missouri as you guys know. I love bass fishing I I've Developed an equal love for crappie fishing over the last couple of years. It's just an awesome Hidden little gym the people that do it some of them are hardcore like like Kyler here And there's others like me that are looking to learn and I'm sure a lot of you watching right now are looking to learn So we're gonna learn some techniques. We're gonna do live scoping and all that. It is currently about 28 degrees So let's get suited up. Let's get out on the lake. Let's get snatched some crap It's Kyler Beckin right here. I got it for this this month in February What are the main? Couple patterns that people should be looking for Pre-channels Spend your time in the Greeks any kind of feeder Greeks Deep water close by. Yep deep water close by and you can catch it in the pre-channels They'll be on structure. They might be out in the open fish that are in the open. I Usually just pass them up because they're they're hard to catch and just a little bit we were talking this morning Kyler was talking about being able to catch those fish on the run Essentially, which is insane to me. If you always think about crappie, you know You're giving it a dangle straight up or a brush ball or a tree or something like that Sometimes they're not on that stuff. Sometimes they're just kind of hovering around just gonna follow him follow his hands Around what he's doing and I'm gonna ask him questions as we go so you guys can learn so we'll let you do your thing We'll all learn I can promise you we're gonna be knocking some ice off of our life This might have not been the move here The crop this might have it I realized the air vents the air holes as we were running It was a bad decision All right, Kyler. What are we starting out here in a little creek? yep, we're in a deep water in it feeder Creek with some deeper water in it and We're just kind of going along and trying to find the right size Right there's what I was talking about the right there. That's some black crappie sitting way up high and all these ones down here Are a smaller white crappie, dude, you are so dialed So here's some timber over here. Yep. So some are not even close now No, they're just out sitting in the creek 24 feet of water all these those are all And mostly what you do especially tournament fishing is you're looking for the hog jammers and you're just You know targeting those fish as you see them. Yep. So like during a tournament I won't my I will never put my bait in the water unless I see what I believe is a big one site fishing via technology Incredible y'all. So I've messed around with this. I've caught crappie on live scope, but The way Kyler has this set up is he doesn't have his transducer on a mounted pole He does it all with his foot Which surprised me when he told me that so He is straight up controlling where that thing goes at all times so you can scan around. Yep I've seen a lot of crappie boats set up with like a PVC pole or something in the front But you just stay on the trolling motor and I feel it's a disadvantage If you're good at controlling a boat running a trolling motor you're way better off having it on the trolling motor And just he's got to learn to fish and never take never taking your foot off the trolling motor Like once I get up here my foot never leaves it There's a better one. That seems like there's a lot of crappie. Oh, it's full of it That's all crappie that you're seeing on that screen right now all crappie Now most of the feeder creeks you come into this time of year. Is it gonna look like this? We'll see a lot of little ones. Yep Every one of them that that we go into we'll see a lot of fish in them Somewhere in them now that meant it might not always be all the way through it But there's always gonna be a congregation of fish in there somewhere Well, I would call this fine. I'm like if I see if I ever see that many crappie together I'm dropping at the first. Yeah, you haven't even dropped a jig yet, which is impressive. So now in the orange head It was plain old white winter white. That's what I always say Must round some colors see if we could figure out the dealio Not a giant, but it's a nice fish See Look at that. There's a jig There he is Noggin Noggin knock. That's a good profile on that baby. It's all in the settings Dude, just just locked Like leave me alone, bud That's how those hammers are, huh? Oh, yeah There she took off. Yeah, just see that swim. Yep, how about the The white the big quarter ounce and you're using was this eight foot ten foot poles Timber rods that's so you can get out there and really yep, cuz you know There's times where if one's just sitting there. I'll just sit there and just hang it right above them Yeah, big big advantage when you're life-scoping to have the longer pole hooked up Why bam? There's hundreds of them thousands Oh So is that one of those school you're gonna have to like just pick through to get the keepers or oh, yeah Those are all all those fish are probably six inches long It's so cold And this is this is the time, huh? This is like when you catch Elf that has you want to catch a great big fat one. This is the time to come do it I guess it's not that different than bass normally, you know, it's like March without you know I got ice on my line right now My fingers Am I my toes which I'm an idiot for wearing crocs these fish aren't moving They're sitting in the creek channel Not moving There's no shad Looks like we have shad in Texas that size We might go through 50 to 100 different base Experimenting yep, so we find something that's a bite See So just so far I can tell you This is this is really different than What I do is my life scope is I I try to look for the biggest wad Like what's the tree that has the biggest wad and it's probably a little different in Texas because we have you know, there's My experience we're not catching a lot of short fish, you know, yeah, so Odds are that big school there might be one big one down there below it But I'm not like passing over wads To go oh, there's that one big one suspended in the middle of the creek channel. It's probably the hardest to catch You know a giant Yep, you know isn't it get on that thing. Yeah We watched her nose on it Dude, that was a hog Oh the hog light just like you said. Yeah, she just cocked up. Yep. Oh no, no, there she is. Oh, what? Let me get her. What happened? She's so cool. He froze her man with the air tips. What happened there Dude that is that is crazy just stoned her I don't know. I don't understand what happened there y'all Beautiful white crappie. I've never seen that before. Well, she's taking a big poop. Maybe uh, Maybe she just had to pause Look at that. Look at that long string It'll eat it'll eat that was cool to watch man. I can't believe that So if you're in a tournament and that happens Is that a legal you got her? Yeah, that's a legal fish. Yep. There's one using for hog jambers That's a nice fish It'll happen very often Hit right behind her see if she's seen it. Yep. She's seen it Oh, that's cool. That is a nice size eater Just like that just like that Oh, that's awesome. I forgot to get you on him now. No, I'm learning man I mean, don't get me wrong. I love to fill a thought but This is exactly why I wanted to go out with Kyler and just All of us learn together because uh, This is this is impressive y'all. This is impressive. There is Thousands of crappie in this creek and a lot of them are like smaller than my hand. They're they're tiny and it does make it hard to pick out those big ones and stay on them because every time you turn the uh, the life scope like you're just looking at tons of fish so They can kind of camouflage in but It takes uh, you got a really it's like hand-eye coordination mixed with Technology, I don't know how to describe it, but it's pretty awesome What is it with crappie and pink man? I I don't know, but they like it. They do. Yep. They like it Um, I tried a brighter color. That's me. That's mainly why I put this thing on I was wanting something bright to stand out. Yeah, we're dealing with kind of chalky stained Water not exactly just something to get their attention and so far two for two so two for two There's another There's another hammer. I was taking a little pee break. That's getting to be about that's a better size there That is a better stop. My gosh Just white crappie. Yep, white crappie in here big old white one. Okay. Well, you think dinner table or you want to let it go Grow another day. It doesn't matter to me Oh, you can eat that one What? Kind of there's like, yeah, that's a poor job. You won't put talent on the plate. What's your biggest crappie overall crappie It was a hybrid crappie. It was a 330. Oh, yeah, that's what you were telling me. Yeah, a 330 hybrid crappie, which is I didn't even heard of that until today. I mean, I assume they do Interbreed but like he showed me a picture of it. It's just so cool Freakin major so cool three pound crappie all there's just there's two freshwater fishing goals of mine I want to accomplish in my lifetime a 13 pound largemouth bass sharelunker And then a three pound crappie. Hopefully one day in my little man cave I will have both of those mounted on the wall and a smile on my face telling all my grandchildren about it. So Anyway, I guess I need to pick up a rod and catch fish. I've been Showed you guys how kyler's Dominating the lake. He's basically a straight up sane net, but uh I gotta get my dangle on switching up quarter ounce The chartreuse Yeah, there's a couple of dandies. That's a wad of good ones, but that one down in there is a really good one Uh, yeah, that's definitely the biggest wad I haven't seen that in a long time Got her Who action shot A little flop you see how pale they are, but that's a that's a black crappie I would never even know Yeah, because of the distinct lateral line. Well, and like so black crappie they have Just random specks and spots and you'll see this more like once we put her in live Well at the end of the day, she'll be all colored back up. Cool. Yep You'll be able to pick out the black ones from the white ones Yeah, buddy There we go Heck yes, man There you go. First one. That's awesome. That was cool, man. That was cool I just I brought the bait up literally like he's done A dozen times now and just it's like right over their back Just literally trying to like trace Their back with the bait. It's crazy like how Precise it is and then she turned around And then started coming at it and then tilt it up and this is a bigger jig than what I normally use But a lot easier to control That bigger quarter ounce jig head. I'm gonna wind it right on up Perfect There you go. Here we go Oh, you're gonna get her Got me. Oh, dude. She's just knit Knit, there you go Oh, that was a hog jam. It was a big one. All right guys, here we go 14 I'm dropping it down. I hit about two foot behind it. Yep Yep, okay Come on, baby Dragon or she's coming up. Got her. Wabayum, dude That was cool Just like that Yeah Feels like she got a little meat to her. Oh, yeah hog jammer, dude. Yep. She's hooked. Get up in the air. Oh, yeah Oh That was sweet to watch That's the right size taking out the hogs From the deeps on the graph To his jig into the boat That is awesome to watch. You guys got to smash that like button That's a 14 all day. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's 14 and a half. Maybe that's that's what I like to call a full grown one That is full grown There's a whole lot of little bitties. We got pretty mainly all all bigger ones in the hill. That's pretty good one there Our smallest is probably a 11 inch or maybe One, two, three, four, five, six, seven Dude, I love it the Stanley the old staying warm cup catch a couple hogs and break out a good cup of coffee And I like your style Pick out the bigger ones Yep, yep, yep. She's going that big Just pick one and catch it. Cropy shopping, baby. Yep Yep, come on. She gonna get it. There we go, baby Oh, that's awesome, man Oh, dude, that's a little one too. Do it, baby. Don't get it She did a shimmy on it. She did a shimmy. I saw it. Did the shimmy and said So right there you see your shake on there. So that's whenever she Realized that there was something around her felt it in her lateral lines. He felt me popping it like that And you know like it usually goes one or two ways either they they turn around and just inhale it Or they take off like she just did That's why I always try dead sticking and swinging it by them first and not using a whole lot of action at all And then if that doesn't work, then I'll Try to pop in it Get up here Get up here Getting Some want to play some don't That's a golden crispy that is a golden crispy The more you do this eventually like whenever you're Whenever you're sweeping. Yeah, like I don't even watch that arrow anymore. I know right where to pitch just from how my Foot position. Okay. Yeah And like when the wind's blowing you're asking me about that a little bit Oh, I can't do two things at once. I want to watch this. Yep. Yep Get it. Oh Oh, she's coming Yes Oh, it's a little one dude. Oh, I thought it was big so something I just realized Your trolling motor which I used to have the trolling motor cable the straight cable you can make a micro Little adjustments and then it's smooth whenever whenever your bait's falling down or my bait Whoever's bait and I'm running it. I'm just fairly moving the same back and forth Till we watch the bait to watch the fish And the key is to get your bait as bright as possible and have the fish as bright as possible That's whenever you know that you're dead on the money Yeah, and and I finally got the hang of it there where I could follow it as we were drifting, you know Doi Right in the schnoozy Oh, that's a that's a honk, that's a big Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, oh, yeah What a beauty. Oh, that's like this. Isn't that Nancy down there? That's Nancy. That is a full drone one There's a little belly right there Oh Yeah That my friends is just It's a beautiful thing So, uh, we've only been out here a couple hours and we've amassed At least a one-man limit now and we're working on Limit number two They're just all hammers because that's what we're we don't even cast unless it is one. Here's what the live worlds are looking like So this is live well number two and then that one's done done been fooled up I mean just The one thing that's really hard when you're doing this is you're watching the fish swim towards your bait Or watching it react so you're learning a lot But when you see one just kind of get get active and swim towards it You almost set the hook as they're coming like you you set it too early. So you really have to Let them get it before you pull into them Huh, I hold my breath. Yeah. Yeah, it's the anticipation. I'm like, oh, I want to feel the thump I've missed a couple doing that. You gotta you gotta just settle down might finish up in here. I don't know it's Happening kind of fast Going really well with the old same net up here kyler Boom A fighter you got a catfish or crappies? She thinks she's something special Just another one of them That's going good. Oh It's gonna be delicious. I want me to escort it to its final resting place with her buddies. Oh, man Fun times Oh, no had it Had it rod loaded up in every When they're shallow doing this It's you can it's easy to catch them still When they get down there deep like this though, it's really hard to get your bait Down there in time Getting closer to that one. All right fish. I've chased you all the way across this thing Got her That was pretty Started in way back there and finally got her caught That's too awesome This is the craziest thing is like we haven't touched we haven't caught a fish Near a piece of tip all open. I mean we got all of these trees in here, which are loaded. Yeah, I mean they're all Loaded with them just the the hammers are out there Mm-hmm where you normally would just never catch them That is a good She's coming Yeah, yeah Oh, yep, yeah Wham Whammer jam Oh, yeah, look at those head shakes Got to love it Yes You just see that little follow and then you're like, oh no No What happened man? The old paper mouth came off on me. I got to talking to the camera. You got talking All right gosh day. I tried to build an answer. She wasn't there Yeah, I've seen it. Yep. She ate it You're I didn't know how to feel that dude Oh my gosh, I was a wait. I was like I should feel a thump right now, but I haven't felt anything Yeah, when you be seeing flare And they go to it. They just they just ate it. Holy cow That is told you I was gonna say I did not I did folks. I've been fishing for a while I have braid on I did not feel that bite. Yeah, I mean you got the most sensitive set Yeah, yeah, there is braid in a light rod. Is that floral on the end? Yeah, it is. Yeah I mean that's as sensitive as you can get And I still could not feel that my goodness How many how many crappie you think you've missed over the years? You didn't even know it I I'm starting to wonder like bass too. I'm sure they do the same thing Um, I've tried like six or seven times Got her on the move, dude. Oh my goodness. That was a pretty That was a pretty good little little dangle main one. That was awesome That was cool Okay, I feel accomplished You got her did yeah, I got her did I saw her coming like under the troll mower And I was like, I'm just gonna drift my rod left. I wouldn't even pay attention. I was looking at the screen I was like, oh, you're right on that face Yes, it's uh starting to get a little full in here Here she comes. Yep Got her. Wabam Yep, you're looking at some funny things That's a lot people. Wabam That's a dandy on the tin putter Oh my gosh, look at that big old pole just bent down That's fun dimes Oh Jammer That was cool Perfect. That was perfect. Just you gotta have like a little little lead in. Yep Couple feet. Yep That's the deal. That was perfect executed. Perfect I'm stepping up my game next to kyler Oh, yeah Look at this Just a bunch of clothes Not exactly a little But My little is kind of big. I don't know. Whatever you say Where's that shad? That was my bubbles. Oh, it's your bubbles Got her Got her That is amazing, man That is a flat out amazing Like that that fish was on that tree right there. I Boo-booed it up messed up on the drill motor fish swims out here 20 30 feet You chase it down and you're like, no, you're not getting away. Little black one. Got you. Yeah, I was about to say it Yep, it looks different. Yep black crappy Absolute hammer kyler is dead sticking. Got her Just holding it. Just hold on. Yeah, still as you can possibly hold it. That's I've seen you do that a lot. Mm-hmm. Get it down there and just hold it Let's throw these out and see how many we got. Yeah, I'd love to see it Kyler said I got to catch it. So I'm not gonna Not gonna deny What he wants here Yes, and it's a whopper That's a good one and they're on. Yeah kind of floated it Yeah, baby Oh Last crappie of the limit right there. Heck. Yeah, that is that is 30 bruisers in the box Pale white droppies in the deeps got to love it, baby This is 16 of our best crappie right here the average size I think is probably like what Yeah, probably 12 right around 12 keys for today. I'm gonna I'm gonna start the first one which was you Kyler uh getting on the fish I mean he's dialed but also boat control so key. I learned a lot today Just just on boat control and running the electronics What were the other couple of keys? I mean pretty much nailed it boat control is very very important and then just knowing Where to place the bait, you know, that's that's really important Yeah, you taught me so the when I first was flipping out there I was going right on top of the fish Don't want to do that. You want to kind of lead them a little bit And like draw it's like you're drawing over their back You want to bring it in front of their face? Yeah, and the graph's so clear you can see which way they're facing Yeah, so if the fish is sitting in there Like that you just want to come just right and just follow it right around Follow it over the ridge or their back and then sometimes they would turn sometimes they would come out and eat it Sometimes they would just sit there and then the dead stick seemed to be the deal You just let it sit there and then eventually it's like, you know cat and mouse we're gonna go clean these up And um, you know eventually they're gonna go in the grease and we got any more action to come um If people want to go fishing with you you got any open days I do I do have open days. You can give me a call at five seven three seven eight nine three two six three And it's kyler beckman's guide service llc. Okay, you're putting your number on the internet. I'm doing a man I'm doing it. Okay. You're putting it out there doing it. Well. Yeah If you guys want to come catch some hammers like this and learn live scoping learn all of that That's really more what it's about honestly for me. But we're going out again tomorrow Yeah, we're gonna go to some dirtier water and try to find Some even bigger fish than these Hard to believe But i'm excited about that too y'all this is this is really a lot like bass fishing if you like bass fishing Like sight fishing target casting It's basically what we did today. So you can unlock your local lake near you And still do still have a really fun time in the winter catching fish like this So thanks guys for tuning in if you want to see more, you know what to do subscribe right here Go ahead and smash that like button For catching mando crappies and we'll see you right here on the race. See ya