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Fishing deep trees
Yesterday at JPP I found these trees in 60 FOW give or take. My question is do any of you fish deep trees for Crappie or bass?? If so what is the best way you’ve found to fish them? Not only is it very deep water it’s hang up city unless you rig something weedless? I’d probably try to fish for Crappie mostly.
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First of all, I’m no fishing expert, but I think some fish biology my come into play at that depth. Most fish need three things to survive, a sufficient level of dissolved oxygen, cooler water temps and food. It takes several days for a fish’s bladder to adjust to suspend at a given dept with out requiring a lot of energy to stay there. On priest, it seems the ideal depth for fish to “suspend” when water temp hits 80+ is around 10-14 ft because there is enough oxygen, food is within striking distance and the water temperature is cool. In late evenings and at night the fish will move shallow to feed, but they can’t stay there for long because the water is too hot and it requires a lot of work to stay there because they have adjusted to suspend at a deeper depth. That’s why crappie, bass, and hybrids have been being caught during the day near quick elevation changes in that 10 to 14 foot range. Once you get deeper than that, there is simply not enough oxygen to survive, unless your a catfish, and no reason to be there unless your a bottom feeder. Now I could be wrong, but it looks to me like the shallowest tree is down 20+ feet.
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I only fish those in the winter for crappie.
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Thanks for the reply backs Brian and Holbc57. Brian I’m sure the trees are easier to fish at winter pool, plus less boat traffic.
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They are. They like to suspend in 30-50ft then.
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quote Brian Carper:They are. They like to suspend in 30-50ft then.
I fish year around so I will be back to those spots for sure!
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Hey Dakota, i seen your Caney Fork pics on fishingtn.com.
I think I recognized that log in the backdrop on one of the pictures. Was that the log out from Happy Hollow? Did you fish Happy Hollow and only seen a few people and 6 canoes? Thats amazing if so. Its usually a mad house when I’m there.
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quote Brian graves:Hey Dakota, i seen your Caney Fork pics on fishingtn.com.
I think I recognized that log in the backdrop on one of the pictures. Was that the log out from Happy Hollow? Did you fish Happy Hollow and only seen a few people and 6 canoes? Thats amazing if so. Its usually a mad house when I’m there.
No it wasn’t happy hollow it was up farther but not to far away. Trout magnet is the way to go though. Bright colors mostly. We change until we find the color of the day.
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Thanks Dakota
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