![]() ![]() “I use a 1/16-ounce hair jig in either red, pink, or white, and I’ll tip that with a medium minnow. “I like the minnow for the scent and a hair jig for the action and some added color,” he said. Either way, he uses live live minnows or jigs tipped with minnows. Others prefer a simpler Carolina rig with only one hook per rod. He said some anglers like to use a two-hook rig separated by a three-way swivel. With one or two anglers in the front of his boat, Duke will slow-troll, pushing rods out the bow. You can find some easy pickings working the edges of those channels by tight-line trolling.” Live minnows are unbeatable this time of year “In that part of the lake, there is still a lot of old wood – stumps and logs and laid down trees – that line the channels. “Crappie use those channels like highways,” he said. ![]() He’s really looking for creek channels that feed the lake’s main body. When fishing at Jordan, which is south of the Raleigh/Durham area, Duke always heads up the lake to the Farrington Point area, looking for dingy water entering the lake. “Even when crappie are running up into real shallow water, I find that I can consistently catch more, and more importantly, larger crappie by trolling than I could with any other method.”ĭuke’s picks as the top fall crappie lakes in North Carolina, based on a combination of the numbers of fish, size of fish and structure that sets up well for fall patterns, are Jordan and Badin. “October means it’s transition time on just about all of the Piedmont lakes in North Carolina,” said Duke, a resident of Concord, N.C., who owns Southern Crappie Rods and has fished just about every lake in the Southeast that holds crappie. Trolling takes center stage for seasoned slab anglers this month One of the big reasons why a lot of sometime crappie anglers miss witnessing this pattern is because they are off chasing other pursuits – like college football or deer hunting.Īccording to Ed Duke and Rod Hall, who rely on fairly specialized techniques when crappie move shallow in the fall, they are missing out on some of the year’s best fishing. During the fall, when water temperatures begin their descent from the upper 80s to more fish-friendly levels, much of the same behavior takes place, save for the spawning. ![]()
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