Old School Crappie Fishing Family Secrets
crappie are one of the most plentiful gamefish that are stocked in all the lower 48 states and they go by many aliases such as calico bass, speckled perch, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappies, strawberry bass, and paper mouth. To determine the age of a paper mouthsuch as calico bass, speckled bass, white perch, pole crappies, strawberry bass, and paper mouth has exceptionally good vision. White perch have developed ways to see small objects like zooplankton close up that other species of fish do not have. Understanding the papermouth vision is key to developing key crappie fishing techniques to go bait fishing and catch crappie. This fact alone almost guarantees the paper mouth survival since zooplankton represents the smallest animal prey and they are abundant in all the papermouth habitat locations throughout the United States and Canada.
strawberry bass have multiple cones in their eyes which are commonly referred to as light receptors. At a causal glance this fact may mean nothing to you but when you dig deeper you will see why this is very important to understand if you intend to catch crappie. The light receptors or cones allow the paper mouth to distinguish between different colors. You can use this information to your advantage when you select crappie baits to go bait fishing for crappie. Unfortunately there are not a lot of specific scientific studies that identify what colors they can see better then others so trial and error are still needed to select your crappie baits in the crappie fishing process if you want to catch any crappie.
crappies have very good black and white vision and they are known to be very active night feeders because they can see their prey very good at night. If you want to catch some large paper mouth then by all means set up a night fishing for crappie trip. The eyes of the white perch are bigger in proportion to it’s body size then most species of fish. These large eyes can gather more available light in limited light periods that their prey such as crappie minnows, small shad,small crayfish, and bluegill fry. As a result, the strawberry bass have a distinct advantage over their prey in the day or at night. Many trophy slab calico bass have been caught while bait fishing for crappies Also, If you go crappie fishing in waters that are very clear calico bass are especially active in this type of crappie habitat. If you schedule a fishing trip to clear paper mouth to clear water habitat you bait fishing for crappie efforts will be rewarded with a basket full of a good crappie catch.
We hope the information in this article about Speckled Perch. We wish you the best of luck on your next fishing trip!
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If you want to be a successful live bait fisherman you need to understand the gamefish food pyramid. All kind of bait that is used for fishing that is natural to a game fishes environment has it’s set place in the food pyramid and all live baits from the top of the pyramid to the bottom depend on each other to survive.
For example for there to be an abundance of of say largemouth bass there would be need to be a abundance of plankton which is at the bottom of the food chain. You are probably wondering why. Well in order for a body of water to hold a good population of large mouth bass there needs to be a good of bait fish for the large mouth bass to feed on. Well live bait such as bait fish need to have a abundance of zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton. Well I think you get the picture.
Actually there is some what of pecking order for the food pyramid. The pecking ordered is arranged by the number of pounds at each level of the pyramid. The lower the number of poundage the higher the live bait item is listed in the food pyramid. If one of these poundage number somehow gets out of whack, the whole food pyramid will suffer. The gamefish at the top of the pyramid need the live bait species of the bottom of the pyramid to survive. All species need to be be linked in harmony for the food pyramid to work efficiently.
For example for any food pyramid to have say 10lbs of a combination largemouth bass,pike, and walleye which would be at the very top of the pyramid there would need to be 100 lbs of small gamefish to feed on such as bluegill,yellow perch,small bass,small pike, and small walleye. The small gamefish would need to have 1,000 lbs of live bait such as bait fish. The baitfish could be made up a variety of live bait such as bluntnose minnows,shad,fathead minnows,rosy red minnows,creek chub,hornyhead chubs,blacknose dace,golden shiner,goldfish,white sucker, and madtoms or willowcats. These bait fish would need to have 10,000 lbs of zooplankton, and the zooplankton would have to have 100,00 lbs of phytoplankton. You can see know how those very large gamefish need the smallest of live baits to survive.
Well that concludes my article about Live Bait. Have a great day and the the best of luck to you on your next fishing trip
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