B'n'M Fishing

How To Use Brushpiles To Your Advantage During The Pre-Spawn

02/20/2013

The Charleston, Missouri crappie tournament team of Jim and Barbara Reedy fish all over the country on the Crappie Masters tournament trail. They encounter many different scenarios in their travels but have learned to rely on brushpiles nearly year round. In fact, Jim Reedy credits effectively fishing this type of structure with their achievement of winning the Crappie Masters Team of The Year award in 2009. When the BnM/Vicious team is competing during the late winter prior to the spring spawn, one of the first things they do during their pre-tournament scouting is locate a number of deep water and intermediate depth brushpiles.

Kent Driscoll On Fishing Winter Rip Rap

02/07/2013

With most of the country in the full grip of winter, a lot of anglers are spending most of their time indoors waiting on the groundhog to tell them when they can get back on the water. If you are one of those anglers, you may be missing out on some good fishing by waiting till spring rather than hitting the water now. One of the best places to find winter crappie may seem so obvious, it gets over looked. Areas where man-made rocks, otherwise known as rip-rap, has been installed along the banks of your local waterway typically hold crappie right under the angler’s nose.