View CartFly fishing for crappie with a fly rod is a whole lot of fun. Most people don’t think of fishing for them with a fly but they take a streamer pattern very easy. My family wanted a nice meal of fish so I went to my fathers lake and filled a bucket almost full in 45min. I used a 3 wt Hardy fiber glass rod and a white and chartreuse minnow pattern. You must fish the streamer with fast strips on the fly with 6 to 12 inch strips. Don’t wait much between strips. Crappie are very aggressive in the spring. You will have to slow the strip down when the water gets hot but it will be harder to catch as many when the water warms up. Crappie is a great pan fish for eating and in a small lake you can remove a lot of them to keep the balance. The work of the fishing trip was not the fishing but the cleaning but it takes a lot for 10 people. So next time the rivers are blown out in the spring think about a pond or a lake for some nice crappie fishing. Most of the time I myself always practice catch and release but pan fish at my fathers lake is fair game.
Tight Lines
Dave