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Finding fish on new lakes! #1394
10/24/2017 12:44 AM
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How does everyone find bluegills and crappies when they fish a new lake?? I understand they are two different animals so both maybe???


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Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1419
10/30/2017 01:31 PM
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The first thing i try to find is the green weeds. Fish will be in the green weeds for oxygen and food year round.

After that, you can look at the breaks to the main basin and drill from shallow to the deeps to see if fish are holding to a certain depth. The crappies will likely be suspended in these areas during the evening bite.

Many times you can find crappies and bluegills mixed together. Crappies will often be higher in the water column compared to the gills.

Dont be afraid to drill a lot of holes!

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1433
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I look for basins, then a shallow feeding shelf, I fish the same shelf for both, but seem to get into them at different times of the day. I focus on the transition and drill plenty of holes to hole hope.

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1438
11/04/2017 08:34 PM
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Drill lots of holes looking for green weeds with my camera for gills, basins for crappie. they can be anywhere in the water column

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1460
11/10/2017 11:31 PM
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I like to start by looking at a contour map of the lake if I can find one. I look for flats that are formed where the contour lines widen out. some time these almost look like a gradual point coming out of the contour change. also flats that have the sticky bottom will hold the bugs. as they rise off the bottom at night it tends to bring in the crappies more so then the bluegill. this leads me to my second spot I like to look at and that is the outside bends of where the contour bottoms out at its deepest point and forms a bend up to 90 degrees. also look for underwater points, especially ones that don't really stand out much. just that slight little bump can be like a magnet to fish. I see this on this one lake I fish. this same lake also has another thing that not all lakes have and that is a double saddle area. this area has held fish in the past for me. one last place I like to look for is areas where there is a under water island by either the shore or another underwater island and it forms a channel or canyon type of area. think of it as a under water funnel point where the fish have no choice but to swim through there to get from one place to another. I hope how I wrote this is easy to understand. it would be easier to explain if I had a way to copy a picture of a lake map on here and mark some examples of spots I would check.

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1461
11/10/2017 11:35 PM
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Here is a link to a different forum where I included a lake map with areas circled to look for crappies on this particular lake. it is reply #8 in this thread. this might explain it easier if you look at the lake map I included.

https://www.iceshanty.com/ice_fishing/index.php?topic=334470.msg3545751#msg3545751

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1504
11/20/2017 02:58 PM
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BradB - thanks for the lesson. Sometimes I always wondered what to look for! Most of the time its hunt and hunt some more, but this helps.

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Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: Faticeboi] #1517
11/21/2017 03:27 PM
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Great info Brad, I'll have to apply some of that this year....where I fish I look for some weeds or other structure for gills...deep breaks, for crappies.

Re: Finding fish on new lakes! [Re: BradB] #1738
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Good stuff!


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