Since we had a major storm moving in today and I only had a few hours to fish I decided to do a tutorial on bank fishing. My target fish were crappie but I caught bass and catfish.

We headed to the lake today to do some crappie fishing, we hoped to find some crappie that had moved up shallow by fishing around lay-downs and beaver lodges.

The crappie was scattered really all over the lake today. I caught crappie in 20' of water and 5' of water and suspended it in 8-12' of water. The crappie I found in the middle of the cover was the nicer size crappie for the most part. I caught all fish vertical jigging hair jigs.

The crappie was scattered really all over the lake today. I caught crappie in 20' of water and 5' of water and suspended it in 8-12' of water. The crappie I found in the middle of the cover was the nicer size crappie for the most part. I caught all fish vertical jigging hair jigs.

The crappie is moving into the coves but they are scattered. It will not be long before they are spawning. I caught the biggest fish over creek channels along the main lake and in the mouth of big coves.

The day start off slow for fishing but ended with a bang. When I left around three the fish were still biting. The bite picked up after lunch. Hair jigs in gray and white and black were the best colors. Fish were in the 8-14 foot range most were staging just outside the flats.

In today's video, we go over five different ways to tie a vertical jig rig presentation. Many will say I already know most of these but many people don't. Someone just starting to crappie fish will need to know these rigs.

I headed to Kerr lake today, its been quite a while since I fished there. Since this was my first trip I had to figure out where the crappie was holding.To make a long story short, Look in the upper ends of creeks it 8-16 feet of water along creek channels and mouths of coves

We used our side scan and down imaging to find and locate the structure that was holding crappie. Once we located a likely spot we used Gamin Live -scope to get closer to the structure and vertical jig to catch crappie. We also cast lures to the same fish with some success.

The fishing day started slow but by the afternoon the crappie bite was on fire. Most all the fish were really nice size crappie. I caught my PB crappie today it was 15-3/4" long, my weight scale was broken and I could not weigh it but it probably weighed 2 1/2lbs or so. We kept fish today because we were going to have a fish fry.

The fish were biting good today. Most fish were caught casting curly tail lures to them. The crappie seemed to react better to a moving bait.

Today we used the live scope to spot and stalk big crappie in oped water. The bigger crappies were for the most part scattered, only once did I see three together.

We used the live scope to spot crappie out in open water today. We used double rig hair jigs to drop lures down to the crappie, Most of the crappie would at least come over and look at the lure so that was a good sign, at least they were not too spooky.

I hope you enjoy the rod review. I will be catching a lot of fish with this rod in the future. You can order this rod directly from ACC Crappie Stix or there are several other dealers that sell the same rods.

I had the chance to fish some new lure colors today and try my new ACC Crappie Rod out. The fish bite much better today than they did last week even though the water is still very clear. We need it to rain and put some color in the water and we will all see the crappie bite get better.

I caught the biggest fish fishing docks and some of those fish were as shallow as 4' deep. Crappie is really schooling up in large schools. I am seeing very large numbers of fish.

I changed colors fished with different style jigs and colors, spoons you name it I threw it. I caught fish on all of them but only one or two at a time. I kept at it and finally came across a larger school of nice crappie holding on a sandy point!

I spent some time checking water temperatures in the upper portions of the lake and found the water temps were in the mid-40s. The main parts of the lake were still at 50-54 degrees!

We fished again with Carolina ALL OUT today and it was a good day all around. We caught a fish vertical jigging structure.

We had a chance to go flounder gigging for the first time this year and we had some good success. We gigged 16 flounder total, not a bad night.