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what time should i go fishing at a lake..
its a pretty small lake and its murky.

there is about everything in there
bass
bigmouth bass
small mouth bass
crappie
rainbow trout
trout
catfish
bluegill

im using live worms..
i have a choice of these baits/have them
lives worms
gulp magits
gulp earthworms
plastic worms
ALOT OF KINDS OF PLASTIC BAIT
minnows (dried minnows from the bad)

what is the best selection of bait and what time in the morning should i go?
bag* not bad lol

i really want to catch some big crappie but dont know if im using the jig right. oh and if u know any other tips on fishing crappie let me know them!

well i like fishing at the fishing pier just west of the marina but i havn’t caught any crappie there. just some drum and some bluegill. where is somewhere where i can catch some big crappie? or maybe even some bass!?

Am I right about this? I don’t know a lot about fishing but have the impression catfish and other bottom feeders are about the least picky? If I put a little sinker on my line near my minnow and just let him lay near the bottom won’t that get me the most bites, overall? I don’t care what I catch and just like the most takers on my line at times when I only have an hour or so to fish,

My husband and I recently started fishing in our local area, northern MS. We’ve been fishing for about three weeks now, going just about every day between 6pm and 9pm. We do not have a boat, so we have to do it at the shore.

We’ve been to three different lakes. All three of these lakes are supposed to be good for Crappie, Catfish, and Bass.

We have tried both the spin-casting reels and the spinning reel, with 20lb. test line. We have tried Eagle Claw single hooks in both the crappie and catfish sizes as well as treble hooks. We have tried minnows, nightcrawlers, crickets, spoons, chatterbait, soft and hard plastics, stink bait, dead shad, dead crawdads, hotdogs, cheese, even smoked sausage. We have tried it at 2′, 3′, and at the bottom (but we always get hung that way) and have yet to pull out anything but Gar. We’ve had a lot of our bait stolen, but can’t pull out anything worth keeping.

Can someone please tell me what we are doing wrong, or give me some tips. Thanks.
We will definitely try the lighter line test and will give the slip bobber a shot.

As far as going in the morning or later at night, we can only do it once a week, because I work the other days.

We typically fish in the spillway, on most days it’s not deep enough to go much deeper than 3′ without getting hung on the rocks underneath. Also, there really isn’t much cover for the fish other than the rocks out there. People still pull stuff out of there though, even though we haven’t.

We will use the slip bobber and try to bring it deeper, but I don’t know how much further we can go. Using a regular bobber if you go deeper than 3′, then you get hung on the rocks on the retrieve. Maybe it’ll be different with the slip bobber. I do think the lighter test line might help us feel possible bites because we do tend to lose a LOT of bait to thieves, and that is probably why. I just worry about those BIG Gar breaking the line, but if it helps us catch other fish, then we’ll do it.