| Panfish |
| Tips for catching Crappie: |
| Crappies shy away from any unusual disturbance. So keep your distance, avoid unnecessary movements or noise, and use the lightest line possible for the conditions. |
| When you are fishing for crappie in the summer fish under or around structure sutch as: Sunken trees, docks, bridges, swimming platforms, weeds, and brush. |
| Black Crappies have irregular, dark blotches or speckles on their sides and seven or eight dorsal fin spines.The distance from the eye to the dorsal fin is equal to the length of thedorsal fin base. |
| White Crappies have five to the verticle bands. Most have five or six spines; a few have seven. The distance from the eye to the dorsal fin is greater than the length of the dorsal fin base. |
| Tips for catching Yellow Perch: |
| Yellow perch are very easy to catch during the right conditions. Perch will readily attack many forms of bait including live and salted minnows, crawfish, crawfish tails, leeches, and worms. They will also take perch eyes through the ice. Some lures they will hit on are small jigs, Sweetish Pimple jigs, small minnow imitations, and many plastic lures. |
| This page was last updated 3/24/05 |
| Tips For Catching Bluegill and Pumpkinseed |
| Bluegill and Pumpkinseed are very much like Perch, except their mouths are a lot smaller. They can be caught on minnows, small jigs, tiny jigging Rapalas, grubs, maggots and small worms. Remember that Bluegill and Pimpkinseed have tiny mouths so small hooks are necessary. Hook sizes 8-12 may be needed. |