I love this. My Tenn. kinsman called these fish "crappies", but here inSouth Georgia, we always called 'em "specks" (short for speckled perch). They get in the 2lb class down here.
Awesome outing! I'm a new sub to your channel!! Good luck in your journey on youtube. Keep up the hard work and it will all pay off!! Take care and Happy New Year 💯👍⭐️🎣🎣
I’ve Crappie fished for over 60 years. If you’d nose that boat up in those limbs and tie off to one and fish straight down you’d do much better. You’re not gonna scare them off!! Done it a thousand times. Many times I’ve been idling around and thumped a big stump, restarted the motor, turned around and fished the stump and would catch one or more nice crappie.
I did briefly thought about that after I got into that pile of crappie. Only reason I didn’t do it was because of how clear that water was. I was too afraid to spook them just by them seeing me. But one thing I agree with you is the motor noise doesn’t really affect their bite. They hear boats go by all the time. To them, it’s almost natural to hear boat noises, so they aren’t as skittish about that than other fish would be. Thanks for watching, by the way! Hope you’ve been safe and warm amongst all these winter storms and clippers coming through. 🤙🏼
Hey Tadpole! I’m still kicking around. I’m sorry I haven’t made any videos in quite a while now. I won’t say I quit making videos, but I will say that I haven’t had the ambitions to make new content like I did when I started out. Mainly because it takes up a lot of my time when I have too many other things going on. I got a new job that limits the amount of time I can go out fishing compared to where I worked at before. Plus, I just had a new born last Wednesday! So we’ve been doing a bunch of preparations leading up to birth and having to work a bunch of hours just cut into my spare time to make any videos from what little fishing I was able to have time for. A few months ago, I had my whole family with me, including The Crappie Bandit! When I went to go upload it, it read the SD Card had an error and the files were corrupt. The only way to fix the issue was to delete all of what was saved in the SD Card. I was like absolutely not! So after that nonsense happened, it zapped what motivation I had in me to keep creating new videos. Once I get a better GoPro or some kind of setup to have a camera up and catching all the fun pulling slabs out of the waters I go fishing at, I’ll be happy to post them ASAP!! Thanks for checking in Tadpole! Hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful holiday season and look forward to all of us having a happy new year!! 🤙🏼
@ thanks for answering me, take care of the family first, family is the most important thing in a man’s life, congratulations on the new born, when you get time to make some vids, I’ll be watching for them! I fish there where you fish sometimes, hope to meet you in the water sometime!
@@tadpolebothanks for watching bud!! And I’m very glad you enjoy the content. As soon as we get more settled in, I’ll soon be back out on The Hill catching more slabs! Hope to see you there, soon, too! 🤙🏼
Man if you ever want to fish the upper end of the clinch up towards Tazewell let me know. I don’t mind one bit to fish with ya. Or I could show you a Crappie spot or two in Powell Valley.
Sounds like a good plan bud! I’m about to start fishing Norris lake again now that the weathers getting a little warmer than average. My hope is the crappie will start to migrate towards the shallow area again like they did last year, and catch the heck out of them feeding off shallow water shad. Thanks for watching my video bud! 🤙🏼
@@CrappieKev I mainly fish the area around Powell Valley Marina. I haven’t fished any further south than that. But I’ve caught some very good crappie in that area.
Hey brother I live in Harrogate Tennessee myself and fish Norris and Cherokee lake quite often and the powell river side but have never been on the clinch side I was born and raised in South Georgia and was wondering if you could tell me a decent boat ramp to put in in Knoxville area to catch crappie I wouldn’t ask for specific places to catch fish just a few pointers as to where to begin thanks for the great videos and have a blessed day
Thanks for checking my videos out, friend! So, for the Knoxville area closest to Harrogate (HARROGATE IS A BEAUTIFUL PEACE OF WIDE OPEN COUNTRY SIDE, BTW), I would think of trying out Big Ridge State Park at Norris Lake. This time of the year, the Crappie will be in super deep structures, following the shad that’s in that lake around the Big Ridge Dam. The reason I don’t fish that area much is because of how super clear the water is. It is extremely difficult to find the right approach to catch them without spooking them. Their eyesight is phenomenal! Going into the Knoxville area closest to you, I’d give Bull Run Creek a try. It runs from Mayndardville all the way to the lower end of Bull Run Fossil Plant. Even as cold as it is now, you can find a few deep pockets that holds crappie around structures as well. There are many creeks that holds shallow water Crappie when the sun is out this time of the year as well. The warmest part of any water will be in the afternoon where the suns been shining at the most, pulling the bait fish into those waters. You find the bait, you find the Crappie! 🤙🏼
I've watched quite a "few" of Crappie Video's. And "none" and no one, has flat out lied to us. I sat through the whole thing, waiting on you to start snatching them in. And unless I "blinked" to quick, and missed it. Ma Man, you never even got a "NIBBLE"!!! So I have written your You Tube name down on my pad. To make sure I don't waste my time again. I was raised with this saying by my Mother,,,, I can't stand a Thief, or a "Liar"!!! And you, are actually "both," you stole my time, because you "LIED" about your Intro Title. Good Luck,,,,🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well bud, I guess you better check again, because you missed ‘em. I even have in the description of the times I caught fish. If you didn’t see any fish I caught in this video, I feel sorry for you.
It’s a Bass Pro Shops ‘Dough Bait’ 6 ft rod, ultra lite, fast action. The rod and reel combo was cheap when I bought it. It only costed $30. But it’s actually a decent working fishing rod and reel for the price! 🤙🏼
Oh believe me, that’s exactly what I do anytime I’m fishing with jigs and underspins. I already had these jigs on from the last fishing trip, so I never bothered to mention about how I bend my hooks. Lol. Thanks for watching my video bud!! 🤙🏼
I probably could have for sure. But I got in a time crunch and started to get in a hurry when I really wanted to try out another spot up the creek channel I knew held really good fish beforehand. I should’ve just stayed in that one spot in hindsight, but that’s fishing for ya. That was a cold but fun day of fishing time. Thanks for checking my video out bud! 🤙🏼
It’s crazy you mention it, because I’ve never once magnet fished my whole life. Don’t know why I haven’t yet, but I think that would be something cool to do. 🤙🏼
Thanks for the positive vibes bud! Yeah, some people complain when a fisherman culls crappie and other fish, despite that it’s perfectly legal to do so here. I don’t really worry about what people have to say that’s negative, when nothing wrong has been done. I keep fish past a certain length, just for my own sake of peace of mind. To each is their own, as long as it’s legal (like you said) is my philosophy. Thanks again for watching bud! 🤙🏼
My hope is you read in my description all of the time stamps of when I caught the fish to avoid any time you didn’t want to waste listening to me talk in the long moments I wasn’t catching fish. Nevertheless, thank you for your time watching my video. Maybe some of my shorter fishing videos will suit to your liking better. 🤙🏼
I love this. My Tenn. kinsman called these fish "crappies", but here inSouth Georgia, we always called 'em "specks" (short for speckled perch). They get in the 2lb class down here.
The best name I have heard anybody call them is ‘DINNER’. 😂 that’s some good eating pulling in some 2 lb slabs. 🤙🏼
Hey Kev. Loving the videos.
Thank you for the watching and loving the content bud! Have a great day, too! 🤙🏼
Awesome outing! I'm a new sub to your channel!! Good luck in your journey on youtube. Keep up the hard work and it will all pay off!! Take care and Happy New Year 💯👍⭐️🎣🎣
Happy New Year to you, too, buddy! Thanks for the good wishes and I’m so glad you’re enjoying my content! Take care Domingo! 🤙🏼🤙🏼
I’ve Crappie fished for over 60 years. If you’d nose that boat up in those limbs and tie off to one and fish straight down you’d do much better. You’re not gonna scare them off!! Done it a thousand times. Many times I’ve been idling around and thumped a big stump, restarted the motor, turned around and fished the stump and would catch one or more nice crappie.
I did briefly thought about that after I got into that pile of crappie. Only reason I didn’t do it was because of how clear that water was. I was too afraid to spook them just by them seeing me. But one thing I agree with you is the motor noise doesn’t really affect their bite. They hear boats go by all the time. To them, it’s almost natural to hear boat noises, so they aren’t as skittish about that than other fish would be.
Thanks for watching, by the way! Hope you’ve been safe and warm amongst all these winter storms and clippers coming through. 🤙🏼
Where are you and Bandit at crappie Kev, you haven’t made a video in a long time, are you sick, hurt or just quit, miss watching your vids man!
Hey Tadpole! I’m still kicking around. I’m sorry I haven’t made any videos in quite a while now. I won’t say I quit making videos, but I will say that I haven’t had the ambitions to make new content like I did when I started out. Mainly because it takes up a lot of my time when I have too many other things going on. I got a new job that limits the amount of time I can go out fishing compared to where I worked at before. Plus, I just had a new born last Wednesday! So we’ve been doing a bunch of preparations leading up to birth and having to work a bunch of hours just cut into my spare time to make any videos from what little fishing I was able to have time for. A few months ago, I had my whole family with me, including The Crappie Bandit! When I went to go upload it, it read the SD Card had an error and the files were corrupt. The only way to fix the issue was to delete all of what was saved in the SD Card. I was like absolutely not! So after that nonsense happened, it zapped what motivation I had in me to keep creating new videos. Once I get a better GoPro or some kind of setup to have a camera up and catching all the fun pulling slabs out of the waters I go fishing at, I’ll be happy to post them ASAP!!
Thanks for checking in Tadpole! Hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful holiday season and look forward to all of us having a happy new year!! 🤙🏼
@ thanks for answering me, take care of the family first, family is the most important thing in a man’s life, congratulations on the new born, when you get time to make some vids, I’ll be watching for them!
I fish there where you fish sometimes, hope to meet you in the water sometime!
@@tadpolebothanks for watching bud!! And I’m very glad you enjoy the content. As soon as we get more settled in, I’ll soon be back out on The Hill catching more slabs! Hope to see you there, soon, too! 🤙🏼
Man if you ever want to fish the upper end of the clinch up towards Tazewell let me know. I don’t mind one bit to fish with ya. Or I could show you a Crappie spot or two in Powell Valley.
Sounds like a good plan bud! I’m about to start fishing Norris lake again now that the weathers getting a little warmer than average. My hope is the crappie will start to migrate towards the shallow area again like they did last year, and catch the heck out of them feeding off shallow water shad. Thanks for watching my video bud! 🤙🏼
@@CrappieKev I mainly fish the area around Powell Valley Marina. I haven’t fished any further south than that. But I’ve caught some very good crappie in that area.
Hey brother I live in Harrogate Tennessee myself and fish Norris and Cherokee lake quite often and the powell river side but have never been on the clinch side I was born and raised in South Georgia and was wondering if you could tell me a decent boat ramp to put in in Knoxville area to catch crappie I wouldn’t ask for specific places to catch fish just a few pointers as to where to begin thanks for the great videos and have a blessed day
Thanks for checking my videos out, friend!
So, for the Knoxville area closest to Harrogate (HARROGATE IS A BEAUTIFUL PEACE OF WIDE OPEN COUNTRY SIDE, BTW), I would think of trying out Big Ridge State Park at Norris Lake. This time of the year, the Crappie will be in super deep structures, following the shad that’s in that lake around the Big Ridge Dam. The reason I don’t fish that area much is because of how super clear the water is. It is extremely difficult to find the right approach to catch them without spooking them. Their eyesight is phenomenal!
Going into the Knoxville area closest to you, I’d give Bull Run Creek a try. It runs from Mayndardville all the way to the lower end of Bull Run Fossil Plant. Even as cold as it is now, you can find a few deep pockets that holds crappie around structures as well.
There are many creeks that holds shallow water Crappie when the sun is out this time of the year as well. The warmest part of any water will be in the afternoon where the suns been shining at the most, pulling the bait fish into those waters. You find the bait, you find the Crappie! 🤙🏼
What is the name of your rod
Shakespeare micro series I bought from Walmart.
I've watched quite a "few" of Crappie Video's. And "none" and no one, has flat out lied to us. I sat through the whole thing, waiting on you to start snatching them in. And unless I "blinked" to quick, and missed it. Ma Man, you never even got a "NIBBLE"!!! So I have written your You Tube name down on my pad. To make sure I don't waste my time again. I was raised with this saying by my Mother,,,, I can't stand a Thief, or a "Liar"!!! And you, are actually "both," you stole my time, because you "LIED" about your Intro Title. Good Luck,,,,🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣
Well bud, I guess you better check again, because you missed ‘em. I even have in the description of the times I caught fish. If you didn’t see any fish I caught in this video, I feel sorry for you.
Nice crappies
what kinda rod is that?
It’s a Bass Pro Shops ‘Dough Bait’ 6 ft rod, ultra lite, fast action. The rod and reel combo was cheap when I bought it. It only costed $30. But it’s actually a decent working fishing rod and reel for the price! 🤙🏼
Slightly bend your hook up to help with sticking them.
Oh believe me, that’s exactly what I do anytime I’m fishing with jigs and underspins. I already had these jigs on from the last fishing trip, so I never bothered to mention about how I bend my hooks. Lol. Thanks for watching my video bud!! 🤙🏼
Guaranteed to catch more fish if you would shoot your bait back in the shaded spots 👍
I probably could have for sure. But I got in a time crunch and started to get in a hurry when I really wanted to try out another spot up the creek channel I knew held really good fish beforehand. I should’ve just stayed in that one spot in hindsight, but that’s fishing for ya. That was a cold but fun day of fishing time. Thanks for checking my video out bud! 🤙🏼
You should bring a magnet and go magnet fishing. I know the perfect spot to do that in and it's not far from you.
It’s crazy you mention it, because I’ve never once magnet fished my whole life. Don’t know why I haven’t yet, but I think that would be something cool to do. 🤙🏼
@@CrappieKev Let me know if u do. Can give u a good spot to buy magnet. Im not affiliated with it
Why so many excuses to keep what you catch as long as it's legal? People are gonna ridicule others who catch fish when they're not anyways. Nice vid👍🏿
Thanks for the positive vibes bud! Yeah, some people complain when a fisherman culls crappie and other fish, despite that it’s perfectly legal to do so here. I don’t really worry about what people have to say that’s negative, when nothing wrong has been done. I keep fish past a certain length, just for my own sake of peace of mind. To each is their own, as long as it’s legal (like you said) is my philosophy. Thanks again for watching bud! 🤙🏼
Too much talk not enough fishing
My hope is you read in my description all of the time stamps of when I caught the fish to avoid any time you didn’t want to waste listening to me talk in the long moments I wasn’t catching fish. Nevertheless, thank you for your time watching my video. Maybe some of my shorter fishing videos will suit to your liking better. 🤙🏼