Ottawa River Crappie
- Yannick Loranger
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Ottawa River Crappie
Having just moved to Ottawa from up north in the fall, my cousin had a few species to scratch off his bucket list. I got him his first largie in September, and today, I was able to put him onto his first crappies. No real big slabs were taken, but he did keep a few of the bigger ones for a fresh fish dinner.
The action was steady from 1:00 until 4:00.
FYI, there's about 7" of glare ice on Crappie Bay, bring cleats.
The action was steady from 1:00 until 4:00.
FYI, there's about 7" of glare ice on Crappie Bay, bring cleats.
- Yannick Loranger
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Never did. No need to really. Maybe I'll give it a shot at one point though.riverdog wrote:Couple of nice crappie do you guys ever fish them at night out there?
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Night time crappy fishing has been tried and for soem reason we never had any luck whatsoever.
When hell freezes over, I'll be there icefishing!!!
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- Yannick Loranger
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Yeah they're fussy. I had a couple hits on each of 4 different artificial presentations but I couldn't get anything consistently. All our crappie but a couple we caught on live bait rigs. Jig and minnow was good towards the end...had to go more subtle during the day.D-mo wrote:I'll answer that question dore ...
small jigs with very small full bodied shiners ... that seems to do the trick these days ... for some unknown reason.
plastics are very hit and miss, but you can pick up a few.
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