Wintertime pre-spawn crappie fishing is red hot at Pickwick, if you don’t take things straight on.
The brightly colored floats dipped and bobbed in the bright winter sun, but gave no indication of the scene that was unfolding below the surface of the water.
Twelve feet below, female crappie, laden with eggs and hormones, lurked among the maze of old stumps that littered the lake floor. Though the water was still too cold to put the old gals in the mood for spawning, the bright sunshine made the stump flat adjacent to the creek channel a good place to warm up and feed on passing shad schools.
Tethered 8 feet below the corks, a tandem rig of 1/16-ounce crappie jigs eased along the tops of the stump row at fish-eye level. The tempting baits were too much for one of the slabs as she gently inhaled a lure and then ducked for cover when resistance was felt.
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