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Crappie fishing is fast and furious during spawning time.  The crappie fishing tips you need to heed to catch a mess of crappies is find warm water, a shallow bay and locate some downed timber.  This article will focus on crappie fishing tips and how to catch crappie constantly during the summer months.

Crappies love weeds plain and simple.  Although locating a crib or some deeper water timber can produce, once these spots are fished out many anglers forget about crappie fishing.  This is a mistake.  If you want to find an untapped summer crappie fishing hotspot, follow the weeds.

All weeds are not created equal

The perfect crappie fishing spot during the summer months is a large bay 8-12 feet deep carpeted by weeds.  While you can find crappies on tapered shorelines, the numbers of crappies you will find will be much less than the schools swimming untapped on large weed flats.  Go for the gold medal of crappie fishing and do not settle for silver.  Depending on the water clarity where you fish, you will need to adjust the depth of the bay you are looking for.  The clearer the water the deeper the weeds will be, and the darker the water, the shallower the weeds will be.

Trust the successful strategy for summer crappies

Once you have located the best weedy bay, it is time to find where the crappie are.  From my experience using this strategy on many bodies of water, do not anchor, drift, or position yourself with a trolling motor.  You have two choices that will catch you the most fish.

* If you are an experienced angler, put on a small tube jig (try pink first), and cast and jig just over the top of the weeds.  Many times as your tube jig is falling you will get a hit.  Experiment with the amount of time you let your tube jig fall, and once you find a jigging pattern that works, stick with it.

* If you are in for a more leisurely day of fishing, or fishing with less experienced anglers, use a bobber with your tube jig.  If you are fishing a darker body of water just use a clip on bobber, and the great thing is you can twitch your bobber and reel it in slowly to get the crappie to bite.