crappies, rain, and yes, it's a deer thread, but..

[trilobyte]

just want to know if any of you have had any experience with this. I remember when my grandfather and friends would fish during spawning season for crappie in the river, (cedar/wapsie) when the hitting would be low they'd take tree branches and hit them against the water's surface to create a sound, and then resume fishing and start getting hits again... am i looney? or is this something you'd heard before?

 

[ironwood]

Have you ever been snipe hunting?

 

[djhunter]

HHHHHHHHHHEEEEEERRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE, Snipe, snipe, snipe.

Looks like granddad pulled a fast one.

 

[muddy]

DJ, are you drinking on the job today?

 

[mu1147]

Hate to admit it but I have read that same thing in a fishing mag awhile back. The noise and splashing is suppose to simulate a feeding frenzy and turn the bite back on. Haven't tried it yet myself though.

 

[djhunter]

(urp)No. Why? I gotta tell ya, I think the article that said that about the feeding frenzy may have been about sun sharks and not sun fish. If it is true...I have officially heard everything.

 

[all4s]

Who knows, I bet the first guy the banged a couple of horns together to get the bucks to come in got laughed out of huntin camp.

Hunt on All4s

 

[Sexcrazedbuck]

Im not sure about crappies but I know alittle about cats. We fish under a train trussell and almost everytime a train goes over it shakes things up and we get nailed. I think the cats are sitting on the bottom and when the trains pass it gets them to move just enough to see the bait.

 

[djhunter]

Heck, for a crappie filet, I'd try slapping my fishing partner on the water. Every little bit could help...but I can't help feeling that the camera will be rolling and I'll end up on AFV.

 

[deernstuff]

It works. Better during the summer months when they school up and are moving around pushing baitfish.

 

[deadeye]

you know sexcrazed buck, now that you mention that it reminds me of shooting carp. I swear whenever a car drives by on the gravel road is when I see them surface more often. I know my biggest carp came when I was driving down a gravel road and saw a ripple. Muddy and I got ready and two nice carp were headed our way. They broke and I got the closest one. Don't know what a car driving down the road would do for a carp, but maybe it does something.

 

[horst]

Ive read in magazines that when catfishing ponds when they stop biting that runing back and forth along the bank will get them biting again{never tried it}.Probably not as effective as a train but.I dont know if the vibration in the waters supposed to do it or if it dislodges food from the bank or what but they swear it works

 

[lxshooter]

It never failed, when a train went over the river or a semi went over the highway bridge we had hit after hit for about 30 min. Then it would settle down. All my friends called me superstitious but I always grabbed my pole when a train went by.