Fishing Under Bridges for Winter Crappie

Welcome back to the channel everybody today we are going after one of my

favorite species in the world to catch and that is the crappie and we are

rolling out in my 15-foot John boat again aka the crispy collector but today

we're gonna be focusing on fishing bridges now you're almost guaranteed to

run into some sort of fish on a bridge at all times of the year but there's two

seasons that it really performs well and that is winter and summer the reason

being those two times of year fish typically like access to deep water and

usually a bridge is going over some sort of River Channel so little tip if you're

gonna go fish bridges in the winter and summer try to locate those parts of the

bridge that are closest to the River Channel start there and look for bait

some bridges can be gigantic and it can be a challenge to find these fish today

we're gonna be using our new electronics and I'm excited to finally try out the

LiveScope on the crispy collector and I'm gonna give you guys a little peek on

a new bait today which is the tasty tube it's not quite out yet but this is an

excellent wintertime bait because it doesn't have much appendage movement tubes are excellent fish catchers everyone knows that but this bait right

here is awesome because it doesn't move very much just a little bit of tentacle

movement and if you guys are gonna get into crappie fishing for the first time need some baits or you're just wanting a sweet deal googansquad.com the crappie

crusher bundle right now is on sale it's linked down below but today we don't want

much action because the water is in the 40s these fish are cold we're trying to

match the movement of these bait fish and that is key when you're fishing

bridges make sure to find some bait you're gonna find some fish let's get

under these loud crazy bridges I'm apologizing right now for the bridge

noise but the fish are under there I promise you just gave the old little 30 little dirty 30 merc her first gear loop change

yesterday so I wanted to get out of the water make sure everything's running

smoothly seems to be so far and also a new a dish check this out

stuff you know it's the crispy we're out here catching things to eat and

whatnot we'll go ahead and just put ourselves a big old foam measuring board

in here all the way out to 32 inches I don't think we're gonna be using the

full extent of our measuring board today so we're going after crappie

you okay so I've gone across just a couple of rows of piling so far I found one

spot that looks okay so what I'm gonna do is take some paracord I'm just gonna

kind of take the boat around try to wrap myself around one of these posts

you're set in motion Oh I want a cold you

in order to use this I got to turn on my black box just press that button right

there rub it for good luck there she blows there we go we got some fish down there

this is kind of a special one because I tied this little fly myself

but I've basically got a 8 ounce Guggens quad jig head with the spinner on it

this is a spinner version I took the spinner off and I'm just using the swivel

to basically create a little fly that goes right underneath it we're hooked up I don't know which bait that the fish got but we got one oh we

got the fly oh it's a drum the drum ate the fly four pound test

at least I know something will eat it oh there we go come on baby that was a crappie thumb

oh it's a white bass crappie bass ate the tube oh

tasty tube let go of it buddy all right second fish is a white bass

hooked up there's our crappie sir get in here that one wanted a tasty tube

so what was interesting about that one is you know I caught those other two

fish in the front and the first cast I made on the back side is where we got

the crappie where that current it's kind of flowing through see what we got here see what kind of measurements we got

it's going to be a 13 incher that is a Dandy sure to put him on the stringer so that tell his other buddies about it

oh man he's still fighting feisty now quick rigging tip if you guys want to try the double rig like

I'm fishing here you don't have to fish a fly you can do two jigs you can try

different colors on each jig head so you can see what the fish like more it's

also a way to cover a little bit more water you can take your underspin rig

ours comes with a nice barrel swivel under here you can take that split ring

off of there and your little willow blade and replace it with a leader and

then tie your jig head below that and then you're fishing two baits at once

little caveat to that you may not get the best fall like you would on a single

16th ounce jig head but you are able to cover more water and maybe even double up

Oh got it right over that piling hey that's a crappie

good one that was pretty sweet y'all

watch it go down another one about 12 white crappie

collecting in the crispy Oh he got it oh no he dropped it

acting like he's gonna eat the fly there's one that was a big thump

crappie though it was like a white bass tug yep that's what it is they're a little bit more off the pilings but I've had crappie

do the same thing oh it came off god that felt good whatever it was

yikes oh come here baby that's a big slow tug

I don't even know what this is oh yeah I knew I knew

school of gasper goos eww I don't know what this is

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I don't know what this is I don't know what this is

I don't know what this is I had to leave it sitting still

alrighty guys we're getting some interest but they're not connecting so I'm going to try to switch up colors

maybe switch up dates I'm going to go with natural natural dark

oh oh golly look at this oh

see ya bro oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

it takes so long to set up a 16th ounce jig drifting into the perfect

spot and then dead sticking and then I miss em oh buggers

there we go I got one but honestly this feels like a white mass

and it is what in the deuce man oh I think these are just lone females

that are just hanging with crappie I don't know what are you doing by yourself

you're supposed to be in a big herd ugh

come here old spoon spoon fish guys my SD card just filled up

but I just dropped it at the base of a pillar all the way down there Nadine

come up and popped it and I was thinking oh man it's going to be another white bass

big girl right there that is number 5 that is completing the

strigger we've been working hard out here that's the one I've been looking for

right there big girls that is a 14 inch white crappie oh god it smells so sweet

when you work this hard for em always nice nice to end on a big one

ended up with a nice little strigger crappie to feed the family some fresh golden

crispies go out and do it again hope you guys gathered something on fishing

under bridges today you actually don't have to have a bass boat to fish under bridges

in fact I saw guys fishing out of kayaks I saw someone

fishing out of an inner tube today so it's pretty easy access

to get up under there and there's always fish under bridges go ahead and give me a

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